Threshold training in early base period for cross country

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          asc15 on May 22, 2004 at 12:30 am #9285

          I received a copy of a summer training program used by a college program. I am curious about a concept contained within it.

          In the first phase of base training for cross country, the program calls for doing threshold runs starting in the very first week back to training, starting with 15 minutes and adding 2-3 minutes each week.

          Any thoughts?

        • Keymaster
          Mike Young on May 24, 2004 at 2:05 am #28228

          I don't see a problem with that at all, especially if that's one of the harder sessions of the week.

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        • Participant
          CoachKW on May 24, 2004 at 8:01 am #28229

          That's a logical progression. Once you get past 20 minutes, I would start splitting the segments. For instance instead of 30 minutes straight, you might do better to do two 15 minute segments. But, run that through your coach first!

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