I spent hours researching and adjusting my training plan to fit my needs in order to get my ideal outcomes. I bought a giant wall calendar that I stare at every day to keep everything organized for this upcoming year. I took time to put the pieces in place. I wanted to train hard and have a road map to do that, but also make sure I had weeks I could relax. During this winter I wanted to make sure I had time to snowboard along with running and not have to sacrifice one over the other.
Generally speaking, I will be doing speed work on Monday, recovery run on Tuesday, sub 8 minute splits on Wednesday, long runs with sub 9 splits on Friday, Saturday will be recovery run day. This leaves me with Thursday and Sunday as my days off from running, which will hopefully be spent snowboarding.
My focus from now until early February will be speed and working on increasing my oxygen efficiency. Focus will then shift to tempo runs, nutrition, and learning how to run loops in preparation for the DFL 12 Hour Race. After DFL I will be running a few races and running hills to get ready for Vermont.
Signing up for a race can be a frightening experience, but planning out how I will accomplish these goals brings some calm to the situation. This is a plan for me. This is not a plan for everyone. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. As of right now, I don't feel comfortable running 100 mile weeks, so I'm not going to create a training plan with 100 mile weeks. I also don't have many runs past 24 miles. Others might feel comfortable running high mileage weeks and running many ultra races as part of training. I'm not in that boat.
My training plan is below.
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