Microcycle Planning

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        • Participant
          bulldogtrack on April 8, 2010 at 11:50 pm #16648

          Quick Question…anyone use a 10 day microcycle? Any ideas on how to set one up…i’ve generally used a 7 (track) or 14 (xc) cycle previously. I’m thinking of going to a 10 day cycle to spread the work out a little more. Right now my cycle is looking like this:

          D1: LR, D2: R, D3: E, D4: WO, D5: R, D6: MLR, D7: E, D8: WO, D9: R, D10: E

          LR = Long Run (20% of mileage)
          R = Recovery
          E = Easy or Up Tempo Days
          WO = Workouts
          MLR = Medium Long Run (15% of mileage)

          Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!

        • Member
          Ward on April 9, 2010 at 3:58 am #97019

          My questions would be:

          1. What are you training for?
          2. What are “workouts?”

          Without knowing that, I don’t think I can be of any help.

        • Participant
          bulldogtrack on April 9, 2010 at 6:24 am #97025

          1) training for the 5k
          2) workouts would be cycled through the following:
          a) tempo work (80 – 90% vVo2)
          b) 5k pace
          c) 3k pace
          d) 1500 pace

          **the particular athlete for this discussion has been training as a miler this season, I put her in the 5k to see where she was at and to work some strength and she ran a good time.

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