Recovery week. Yippee!! Enjoy. Although still 2 pretty tough sessions. If you can combine Saturday with parkrun that should make it easier to hit target pace. Keep up the great work Ben.
Coach Simon๐
Find a location where you can pick different points on the hill. Lamp posts are great. So for example you would run to the first lamppost and back to the bottom of the hill. Then to the second lamppost and back. Keep making the reps longer until you hit 20 mins, and then start making the reps shorter again.
Focus on effort level rather than pace or heart rate as both will fluctuate depending if you are going up or down the hill
*single leg exercises so divide the time by half and do on both sides.
Superset (combine) two exercises together. For example. 45 seconds of squats and then straight into 45 seconds of Russian Twist. Keep going until you have completed all the sets of both exercises and then take a 60 seconds rest before moving onto the next 2 exercises and repeat the process. This should allow you to get the whole session complete in around 35 minutes.
Add weights to make the exercises more challenging.
I had to create a new session for you guys. Have fun. 60 mins easy is perfect in terms of training load. Don’t forget those strides as well (if highlighted)
10 Mins WU @ Easy Pace (RPE: 2)
60 Mins @ Half Marathon Pace (RPE: 6-8)
10 Mins CD @ Easy Pace (RPE: 3)
A good opportunity to practice goal pace for an steady run. The more comfortable you get at goal pace the easier it will feel on race day.