On the back of the speed work (20*1 mins) on Thursday and the PT session on Friday, legs felt a bit tired. With the heat ramping up and the fact I needed to get my daughter to ice skating from 8am, it had to be an early one. Executed well, MP could be a few seconds fast (see Strava).
Huge respect for getting up at that time of day to smash this session out. Love the splits, but equally I would slow down right now. We’ve still have a lot of time before race day and if we hit these sessions too hard right now, the amount of training may become unsustainable and you might find you hit burnout or pick up niggles. So I would deliberately ease off the pace and have it feel easier. You’ve done over 16 miles here at under 4 hour pace (including the easy miles) which is brilliant, but as I said, being so far out we don’t necessarily need to be hitting those numbers just yet. Although that said, what it tells me is you are in great shape, which is really pleasing. I’ll keep an eye on these big MP session and I may even tweak the plan slightly, if on track then perhaps one of these every 3 weeks, rather than every 2 weeks is going to be enough and that change could help avoid potential burnout. We just want to make sure we peak on race day and not before that.
Coach Simon 🍊
