Hello,
Just trying to to get a feel what sequence of training days would be best during the HS track season.
M: Long Run T: Recovery Run W: Workout (Tempo/Intervals etc) Th: Pre meet run Friday: Invite Saturday: Recovery Run Sun: Day off
or
M: Regular Run T: Workout (Tempo/Intervals etc) W: Recovery run Thursday: Pre meet run Friday: Invite Saturday: Long Run Sunday: off
*Most of the kids are LDS and can't run Sundays.
The first one.
Is this for indoor track or a winter base more or less going into outdoor track? Are you planning a peak indoors for a state championship? When doing indoor track especially track time or facility access can be an issue. For instance I have coached at a school where the indoor meets can vary during the week but we always had indoor track time on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So meets really affected how I could use the indoor track on those days. I coached in another conference where the meets were always Fridays and we had track time on Mondays and Wednesdays which was perfect scenario really for all my event athletes for indoor track anyways.
SBTCOB wrote:
Hello,
Just trying to to get a feel what sequence of training days would be best during the HS track season.
M: Long Run T: Recovery Run W: Workout (Tempo/Intervals etc) Th: Pre meet run Friday: Invite Saturday: Recovery Run Sun: Day off
or
M: Regular Run T: Workout (Tempo/Intervals etc) W: Recovery run Thursday: Pre meet run Friday: Invite Saturday: Long Run Sunday: off
*Most of the kids are LDS and can't run Sundays.
Are meets not on Saturdays? Either way, the first schedule looks good. But, if meets are on Saturdays and Sundays are off, I would still make Thurs and Friday easy days, though Thurs can be normal run distance. Also, the long run on Monday can be progressive.
Make sure they are getting a long enough cool down after meets since they are not getting a “shake” on Sundays.
Thank you, We have One Saturday meet which would be our State Championships in May. Other than that from end of Feb to May it's a Friday Meet. I will stick with the first option then which I figured makes it easier to layout the plan for the team.
SBTCOB wrote:
Thank you, We have One Saturday meet which would be our State Championships in May. Other than that from end of Feb to May it's a Friday Meet. I will stick with the first option then which I figured makes it easier to layout the plan for the team.
Actually, either plan works. For the more important meets, you might want to have the hard workouts on Tuesdays with Wed & Thurs easy.