If you read my blogs, you know how I feel about excessive miles down the stretch and especially LONGER runs than you need in the taper. Never the less, let's review a few key points:
1. Most running schedules are archaic dogmatic old school unscientific programs that will ensure you finish the race slower than you should, and you will probably finish IN SPITE of the particular author's advice. (yikes, here comes the emails from the GGGS's!)
2. Most runners will execute the dreaded"pretest", a longer than need run in the last 6 weeks, to mentally assuage their weak minds that they can "do" the distance, instead of steadfastly believing the taper works, and instead of a maximum effort on race day, ensuring a mediocre race, or worse, the dreaded "bonk" that they, except for us small cadre of counter intuitive, scientific, critically thinking but genetic losers, will think it "came out of nowhere" even though they trained really, really hard, and chalk it up to bad luck, bad shoes, or the elliptical moon being in a shortened synodic month.
3. Complete your longest runs 8 weeks out, or pick another race.
4. Almost, almost (hehe) ALL runners are overtrained at the start. (it's just that they follow schedules mentioned in #1 above)
5. Almost, almost all runners will go out too fast and FAIL to run negative splits (and many pace groups run positive splits, in my experience)
6. If you use periodization schedules backwards from race day, for both lifting, cross training, and running, you'll be happier in the death zone. (the last 10k when the bear jumps on your back)
7. Ok.... get a blank piece of paper. Draw a big X on it. Lets get ZEN like and stare at it a few minutes. Uhh, not THAT long, unless you pass it over to me. Tell me grasshopper... what do you see?
(If you say a big X, you actually may run a great race, because you need a brain to feel pain!)
So down on the lower left, that's the line for intensity on this axis laden example. In Western culture, we would say it goes UP. That's intensity. Now, guess where we go next. No, not to the refer for Haagen Dazs (how did I know you were a woman?)
So up on the upper left, in Western culture, we'd say the line goes DOWN. That's LOAD or mileage.
Write INTENSITY on the line going UP, and MILES on the one going down. Wha lah!
At the far left bottom, write "6 weeks left".
Near, but not quite all the way to the END of lower right bottom of the page, write "1 week left, STOP RUNNING almost".
8. Take this paper, and put in under your pillow, next to your last tooth. Eventually, over less than one 4 week periodization schedule, the paper will stop crinkling, and your spouse or dog, or both, will start to come back to bed.
9. Go to bed every night from now on until race day and repeat over and over again the following until asleep:
"I will not overtrain, I will not go out too fast, I will not overtrain, I will not go out too fast..."
Naahnaah naah umm umm ummm neewah neewah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............
COME TO THE LIGHT....... COME TO THE LIGHT..... you CAN run less miles and get FASTER....
Himself
1. Most running schedules are archaic dogmatic old school unscientific programs that will ensure you finish the race slower than you should, and you will probably finish IN SPITE of the particular author's advice. (yikes, here comes the emails from the GGGS's!)
2. Most runners will execute the dreaded"pretest", a longer than need run in the last 6 weeks, to mentally assuage their weak minds that they can "do" the distance, instead of steadfastly believing the taper works, and instead of a maximum effort on race day, ensuring a mediocre race, or worse, the dreaded "bonk" that they, except for us small cadre of counter intuitive, scientific, critically thinking but genetic losers, will think it "came out of nowhere" even though they trained really, really hard, and chalk it up to bad luck, bad shoes, or the elliptical moon being in a shortened synodic month.
3. Complete your longest runs 8 weeks out, or pick another race.
4. Almost, almost (hehe) ALL runners are overtrained at the start. (it's just that they follow schedules mentioned in #1 above)
5. Almost, almost all runners will go out too fast and FAIL to run negative splits (and many pace groups run positive splits, in my experience)
6. If you use periodization schedules backwards from race day, for both lifting, cross training, and running, you'll be happier in the death zone. (the last 10k when the bear jumps on your back)
7. Ok.... get a blank piece of paper. Draw a big X on it. Lets get ZEN like and stare at it a few minutes. Uhh, not THAT long, unless you pass it over to me. Tell me grasshopper... what do you see?
(If you say a big X, you actually may run a great race, because you need a brain to feel pain!)
So down on the lower left, that's the line for intensity on this axis laden example. In Western culture, we would say it goes UP. That's intensity. Now, guess where we go next. No, not to the refer for Haagen Dazs (how did I know you were a woman?)
So up on the upper left, in Western culture, we'd say the line goes DOWN. That's LOAD or mileage.
Write INTENSITY on the line going UP, and MILES on the one going down. Wha lah!
At the far left bottom, write "6 weeks left".
Near, but not quite all the way to the END of lower right bottom of the page, write "1 week left, STOP RUNNING almost".
8. Take this paper, and put in under your pillow, next to your last tooth. Eventually, over less than one 4 week periodization schedule, the paper will stop crinkling, and your spouse or dog, or both, will start to come back to bed.
9. Go to bed every night from now on until race day and repeat over and over again the following until asleep:
"I will not overtrain, I will not go out too fast, I will not overtrain, I will not go out too fast..."
Naahnaah naah umm umm ummm neewah neewah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz............
COME TO THE LIGHT....... COME TO THE LIGHT..... you CAN run less miles and get FASTER....
Himself
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