Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Marathon des Sables: Training Program

Happy New Year!! (belated)

Finally!  Eight weeks into training and finally posting this.  Here we go.

General Thoughts
1) cardiovascular - lungs need a lot of work, starting on pace work this week
2) injuries - generally ok, hamstring is better but recently developed a calf issue
3) health - not so concerned about weight or bf, sticking to a generally healthy diet but with this amount of training, I expect to naturally hit decent shape
4) mental - really trying to challenge mental toughness combining long bike to run sessions with weights or yoga

Program (more or less an extension of the Tango Ultra program + cycling)
- 21 weeks (wanted 30 but limited due to hamstring issue)
- 4 run sessions per week (2x pace and 2x long), 3-4 bike, 2 strength and conditioning and 1 yoga
- weekly average (estimate): 69km/ 43mi run, 120km/ 75mi bike
- max week 18 (estimate): 150km/ 94mi run, 190km/ 120mi bike

This is going to be fun!


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