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Feeling rested from yesterday? I hope so… don’t be a lemming, right?

OK.  On with the show!

We’re moving into a new phase of our training as we head towards the end(ish) part of the season. For most of us, the base level of our fitness isn’t going to go up at this point; we’re as strong as we’re going to get.

It’s time to work on the fast.

Having said that, here’s a big damn curve ball…

We’re doing a Classic 2×20 today.

Huh?

Yup. no speed work today; we’re doing that on Thursday this week.

The 2×20 today is going to be a baseline, and a reminder work out for us. We will (and do…) base a fair bit of our work interval-wise off your exertion/wattage/whatever levels as established in this workout.

Keep track of what you do/did today!

I don’t much care how you do it, but establish a metric for today’s workout.

Wattage numbers are great, but many of you don’t have the spendy gear necessary to generate them. There are other indicators you can use –

– What gear you did the workout in, and  at what cadence?

– What was your Heart rate?

– How far do (did) you go in 5 minutes? Ten? The full Twenty?

– What was your Perceived level of Exertion (PE)?

However you do it, figure out a way of capturing and remembering how hard you work today.

You’re doing this:

https://crosssports.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/workout-of-the-day-for-914-2/

But the real work for today is figuring out just how hard you had to work to do the workout.

Make sense?

If it doesn’t, it will.

More on just why we’re doing this in tomorrow’s post…

M

~ by crosssports on November 3, 2009.

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