Summary
Sunday, 13. January 2008, 17:43:46
Weekend is almost over and it's time to make a summary. It has been a nice but pretty hard week. At work it is top season, as always in January, so I have been working 30 hours, paperworking etc coming on top of that. Combining 30 hours of work with good training is ok, you just need to be careful with the regeneration. That means, this week was'n very social, but I managed to go out for a delicious curry on Tuesday. If you visit Vienna, don't miss "The Bankok" (7., Neustiftgasse).
I am now in the middle of a endurance block, which goes on for one more week. Then I will take it easy one week and then go on with tree weeks of more intensive training, including 10 days in Portugal. In the years before I have done lots of long-endurance training, with weekly amounts of up to 18 hours. Well, that has been necessary, but together with my new trainer we decided that it is time to go in a new direction - to make less hours and more faster trainings. In the beginning it was really hard, my muscles protested and I had really hard muscles all the time, even when I was running very slow. But, after about 3 weeks that changed and now I feel really comfortable with this kind of training. I enjoy to run fast! Of course I still do long, slow runs, but I am running more trainings much faster than before and allready now I can see that I'm getting stronger and faster. This is how my trainings looked like this week:
Mo: Indoor running, 2x(3x1000m in 3:50-3:50-3:45)
Tu: 1) Long slow run(flat), pace 5:30, 2h, 2)Strenght training
We: 10K, 4:45/km
Thu: Strength/"Piratenspiel"
Fr: Treadmill 6K, Pace 4:15/5:00/4:15 and so on
Sa: 10K, 4:45/km
Su: Long, slow run (hilly) 2h20'
The coming week will consist of more or less the same sessions, except the long, slow ones. Mid-week the women's elite team will go cross-country skiing with our new women's-trainer (yes, we have finally got a women's trainer, Gunnel Nilsson!). I am really looking forward to that!
I am now in the middle of a endurance block, which goes on for one more week. Then I will take it easy one week and then go on with tree weeks of more intensive training, including 10 days in Portugal. In the years before I have done lots of long-endurance training, with weekly amounts of up to 18 hours. Well, that has been necessary, but together with my new trainer we decided that it is time to go in a new direction - to make less hours and more faster trainings. In the beginning it was really hard, my muscles protested and I had really hard muscles all the time, even when I was running very slow. But, after about 3 weeks that changed and now I feel really comfortable with this kind of training. I enjoy to run fast! Of course I still do long, slow runs, but I am running more trainings much faster than before and allready now I can see that I'm getting stronger and faster. This is how my trainings looked like this week:
Mo: Indoor running, 2x(3x1000m in 3:50-3:50-3:45)
Tu: 1) Long slow run(flat), pace 5:30, 2h, 2)Strenght training
We: 10K, 4:45/km
Thu: Strength/"Piratenspiel"
Fr: Treadmill 6K, Pace 4:15/5:00/4:15 and so on
Sa: 10K, 4:45/km
Su: Long, slow run (hilly) 2h20'
The coming week will consist of more or less the same sessions, except the long, slow ones. Mid-week the women's elite team will go cross-country skiing with our new women's-trainer (yes, we have finally got a women's trainer, Gunnel Nilsson!). I am really looking forward to that!
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