{"id":5558,"date":"2015-06-26T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T10:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2015-06-25T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T16:22:40","slug":"summer-2015-training-plan-early-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/?p=5558","title":{"rendered":"Summer 2015 Training Plan: Early Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Foundation and Injury Prevention Phase of my summer 2015 training<\/a> just kind of flew by! the 5 runs a week looked really intimidating, especially since a lot of them would be for #5amRunClub. But, I got through most of it!<\/p>\n

I’m pleasantly surprised by how strong I feel after this base re-building phase.<\/p>\n

Up next is the Early Quality<\/strong>\u00a0phase\u00a0of the program which\u00a0marked by the introduction of interval work.\u00a0<\/span>This period also has a modest increase in mileage. When I went through this phase last summer<\/a>, I started well but didn’t get in all of the quality workouts. I feel like being committed and diligent about getting the quality runs in will help me significantly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"My<\/a>
My Early Quality Phase of training for summer 2015<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

I’ve decided to shift my “long” runs to Saturday morning. In Phase 1 I kept the weekends clear, but I don’t think I can get away with that anymore. I do have to train for a full<\/em> marathon, and the long runs are absolutely obligatory.<\/p>\n

And you can probably see there’s an awful lot of strength training. My personal trainer at Goodlife wants me to train 3 days a week. It’s a time crunch more than anything else. I’m 100% committed to coming Tuesdays and Thursdays, but Wednesdays double-up with the Running Room group runs. I have been going back-to-back on Wednesdays, but that seems to rob both of a bit of gusto.<\/p>\n

There is one highlighted run in this phase, the Toronto Sprint Spartan Race<\/a> on Saturday, July 18. I mentioned here how I won a free entry<\/a> from Nicole<\/a>. I’m looking at this race rather cautiously. I have studied race reports and obstacle descriptions, and think I can get through most without too much worry. However, something like a climbing wall or monkey bars could get me injured which is my only worry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as I love my Tai Chi Classes, I will be glad when they’re over because I’ll have some time to spare. The balance training, meditation, and working through my joints is great, but since I feel so\u00a0buried\u00a0in other things, it will be nice to have a free afternoon.<\/p>\n

I’d like to to more stretching and foam rolling, but it’s tricky to find the time. I usually finish my morning runs with little time to spare because I have to get ready to dash off to work. And after evening workouts I’m rushing to get to bed. But, I do\u00a0acknowledge\u00a0how important recovery\u00a0activities\u00a0are, so I’ll need to squeeze them in somewhere.<\/p>\n

It’s going to be a hell of a <\/span>phase<\/span>! I hope my discipline and motivation hold! I’m going to need tight motivation to be ready for the upcoming Transition Quality<\/strong> phase!<\/span><\/p>\n
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The Foundation and Injury Prevention Phase of my summer 2015 training just kind of flew by! the 5 runs a week looked really intimidating, especially since a lot of them would be for #5amRunClub. But, I got through most of it! I’m pleasantly surprised by how strong I feel after this base re-building phase. Up next is the Early Quality\u00a0phase\u00a0of the program which\u00a0marked by the introduction of interval work.\u00a0This period also has a modest increase in mileage. When I went through this phase last summer, I started well but didn’t get in all of the quality workouts. I feel like[…continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88954,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[83,40,6],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-runfit","tag-runfit","tag-jack-daniels","tag-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Summer-2015-Training-Plan_EQ.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bj7K-1rE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88954"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulradcliffe.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}