i managed to get my hot little hands on a garmin 305 from a friend of mine who has apparently semi-retired from running due to injury. as much as i hate to think that he's given up on it, i'm happy to put this piece of technology to good use:
the inaugural run with my new GPS-enabled watch was this morning, and it was very helpful to be working with the data and beeps that it was sending my way. now that i have a bit of a baseline in terms of how it measures my performance, we'll have to see how other training runs compare to today's workout.
i let my coach know (to his pleasure) that i'm now the proud owner of this piece of running technology, and he provided me with the first week's training plan that i can now program into it. i recall that from our first conversation that he'd said that he managed to run his sub-3 hour marathon on a training regimen that topped out at 95 kilometres in a week, so i didn't expect week one to be a backbreaker ... but yesterday he let me know that his training plan for getting him to boston had a max mileage of 75 km in a week.
the training cycle that i just came off of was 75 km before breakfast.
ok, not really ... but it did top out at 114 km in one week.
i know that i did not train as smart as i could have over the last five months - which is why i decided to align myself with my coach. and we established that i would have to trust him in this relationship - which i do.
i'm just wondering how shifting down gears by some 40 km will work out for me.
have you had any experience in fluctuating mileage over training cycles? and not just in terms of adding more, but reducing? i'd love to hear about it (if only to allay my own unspoken fears)!
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