Every athlete needs to assess how they are feeling today. Assess how your body has responded to Monday-Wednesdays sessions and either do the following:
1 – Take a full rest day. If this is the option you choose, then you are not allowed to feel guilty for not going into the gym. Resting is crucial to advancement in your training so if you choose to rest then have no regrets!
2 – Mobilize. Use your regular training time to mobilize. Find your problem areas and spend some time focusing on those areas.
3 – Active Recovery. This could be swimming (you can find our free swim workouts on our Competition blog every Thursday), doing a trail run, a low intensity row session or a 30 minute tempo run. Whatever activity you choose to do should be a restorative activity and not deplete you for the remaining week of training.
Open Schedule Note:
Whatever you decide to do today, make it restorative. I’d like everyone feeling fresh and ready to hit 19.2 tomorrow. Please use today to mobilize and visualize for the Open. If you need help with visualization, then check out some of Dr. Heidi Barkers visualizations here
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The goal for many of you this Open is to control anxiety attached to the Open. Channel whatever nerves you may have into positives and use those nerves to be focused.
Optional Running Session
Run 800 Meters @ easy pace
Run 3 miles @ 85% of mile time
Our Open Schedule will run as follows:
Option 1
(For those doing the Open workouts twice)
Friday – Open Workout
Saturday – Training
Sunday – Full Rest Day
Monday – Open Retest
Option 2 (For those doing the Open workouts twice but have to do the repeat on Sunday)
Friday – Open Workout
Saturday – Full Rest Day
Sunday – Open Retest
Monday – Training
Option 3 (For those doing the Open workout once)
Friday – Open Workout
Saturday – Training
Sunday – Full Rest Day
Monday – Training
The workout will be posted tonight but later then our usual 5:00 pm PT as we will be uploading strategy notes for the workout. Stay tuned. 🙂