New Training "Plan"

Well, now that the marathon is off the table, I have to wrap my head around a fall of short races/crossfit training (plus take in to account Geoff's order of 2 days off per week).

So, I made myself up a little 16 week schedule that begins with the Bridge of Flowers this weekend, ends with the November Talking Turkey 6 miler in Holyoke, and has 4 cross country races, Tufts 10k, and the Philly marathon weekend 8k in between. 

I'm seriously psyched about training differently and aligning all this strength and conditioning with some races it might actually be helpful with, but it is going to take some shuffling of my schedule and thinking about exercise a lot differently. 

Every coach I have worked with has told me that "every workout has a purpose", and with all the junk miles I used to throw in, I never really took that seriously.  But with only 3 runs and 5 days of exercise total, there is no room for "junk".    Here's to new challenges!

So my new training plan will look something like this:

Crossfit endurance workouts will be WODS listed on the Crossfit Endurance website

Crossfit workouts will be WODS as listed on the Pioneer Valley Crossfit website

"Normal week" (no race): 4 crossfit workouts, 3 runs (1 short interval, 1 long interval, 1 tempo) over 5 days

eg: Monday crossfit
      Tuesday crossfit and long interval
      Wednesday crossfit
      Thursday yoga
      Friday crossfit and short interval
      Saturday tempo/time trial
      Sunday: yoga

or  Monday crossfit and short interval
     Tuesday off
     Wednesday crossfit
     Thursday crossfit and long interval
     Friday crossfit
     Saturday off
     Sunday time trial/tempo

Race week: 2-3 crossfit workouts, 3 runs (1 interval, 1 strider workout, race) over 5 days

eg: Monday: crossfit
      Tuesday: interval
      Wednesday: crossfit
      Thursday: crossfit, easy run and striders
      Friday: off
      Saturday: race
      Sunday: yoga

or   Monday crossfit and interval
      Tuesday off
      Wednesday crossfit
      Thursday crossfit
      Friday easy run and striders
      Saturday off
      Sunday race

Every week: at least one, but preferably 2-3 yoga days!