Did I screw my base building?

no, you didn't screw it up. you're more likely to screw it up by being so paranoid about it then by taking some weeks off.

Do people actually think training plans work like a recipe?

No, you probably saved it by not running yourself into the ground trying to run with the flu.

People die from the influenza flu. Base building can wait.

You did the best you could so move on. You have learned

how to build a better base for the next season so consider each

season a learning experience.....most people don't get it right the first

time..........Lydiard was a big believer in having a coach {not yourself.}

q34t wrote:

You did the best you could so move on. You have learned

how to build a better base for the next season so consider each

season a learning experience.....most people don't get it right the first

time..........Lydiard was a big believer in having a coach {not yourself.}

Being a coach and not believing in coaches is like being God and being an atheist.

Lydiard was a big believer in having a coach {not yourself.}

Did I screwed? wrote:

Had to take this week off because got really sick with the influenza flu (just runned 5k Friday)

How has it been this long and no one has pointed this out?

Let it Rupp wrote:

Did I screwed? wrote:

Had to take this week off because got really sick with the influenza flu (just runned 5k Friday)

How has it been this long and no one has pointed this out?

If you look closer the rest of the post is pretty bad too.

if you recover well, a build up is money in the bank, for seasons into the future.

after sickness, and you're not fully recovered, and you push an artificial schedule, so as to meet your mental notions where you should be and not listen to your body, then you are in trouble.

wait until you are feeling normal till you do anything hard.

what runners can do, is before they get way overtrained is to go easy for about 4 days. so if you have 2 shitty hard days in a row, knock the mileage way back, get extra sleep, eat right.

it's no big secret about proper recovery, but this is the mistake made by nearly 100%.

look up dorian yates and joe rogan, and the process of doing real damage and repairing properly, numbskull distance coaches can learn something, as well as could lydiard, the man who did not understand speed development at all, and confined the understanding to a ying yang, lydiard method versus anaerobic intervals. and his chickenshit and kick racing tactics. with that said, despite the gaping flaws, lydiard was probably the greatest coach of them all.

definition, chickenshit racing tactics is most every kiwi, sit and kick, draft, a tactic which won many a gold and lost many a gold.

the kiwis think they are so smart using the optimal sit and kick method, when in reality, it is kind of being a thief, stealing off the work of others.

then again, if sit and kick is your only way to get on the podium, go ahead and commit the sit and kick sin, but for god's sake, there is no reason to become a career criminal. run with some balls.

Whether you screwed it up or not doesn't really matter, right? You still have to get back to training either way.

Did I screwed? wrote:

Had been building from 15mpw to 40mpw the last 3 months

Had to take this week off because got really sick with the influenza flu (just runned 5k Friday)

Next week have a 10k race and then two weeks to peak at 45mpw before starting a half marathon training plan, so I was wondering if my aerobic base is screwed for 1 week basically off?

Couple of quick things:

1) You had a cold, not the 'influenza flu' (whatever that is)

2) just 'runned'? troll

No, you're fine. Obviously you loss some fitness by being sick for a week but your entire meso-cycle of traning is not screwed.

Distance runners have this obsessions that if they maintain steady mileage they're suddenly going to be Eliud Kipchoe and if they miss a few miles they're going to run like a fish. Doesn't work that way.

The work you did isn't going to 100% evaporate because of one bad week; it takes months of no exercise to entirely lose the benefits from steady mileage. Your 10k race may be a bit rough and hurt more than expected because of the recovery from illness, but you can still run a good time if you pull on your big boy pants and push.

I still remember missing an entire 2.5 month period between XC and Track my freshman year in college from an injury, and after ~5 weeks of training in track, being significantly faster than I had ever been in my life. So I somehow kept all that base from XC and my HS senior year of track. The base stays, as long as you start up fully again.

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Lydiard was a big believer in having a coach {not yourself.}

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