y, so it's not the alps, but 300m of ascent in the Surrey Hills is still 300m of ascent. Perhaps this wasn't the best route to have chosen for my first week of switching onto the FIRST training plan.Boiled down, the FIRST training plan is about quality over quantity, about how you can achieve better times on just 3 runs and 2 cross-training workouts per week, in contrast to the high mileage 5 and 6 day-a-week plans, one ordinarily subscribes to. I picked up "RUN LESS, RUN FASTER" off Amazon last week and have had a first skim through it and dived into some of the sessions in more detail. So far, it's been a good read and sounds convincing, but the proof will be in the pudding. Given Berlin is only 6 weeks away, I'm not going to hold them to that race for results and will hang on until London 2011 to see just how well it works.
The plan emerged when the two main authors, both sports scientists, took up triathlon and couldn't find the time, or more to the point the energy, to fit in 6 runs as well as the cycling and swimming. They cut their running down to just 3 sessions, but saw no decrease in performance, as a result. Was there any reason this wouldn't work for others? Several studies later and there is a growing number of people subscribing to their plan. As someone who's been training predominantly for triathlon for the past several weeks, it felt like an ideal plan for me to hop onto and frees up more time to spend with the family, while still allowing me to fit in the occasional cycle and swim as a part of the plan. And that's all good in my book.
Week commencing Sunday 8th August
Total exercise: 7h 16m
Longest run: 15 miles
Distance covered: 96.5km
- 30km cycling (one commute to and from work)
- 65.8km running (swapped long run day to Saturday, hence extra high mileage)
- 700m swimming
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Great training and run result...Keep it up...:D
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