I really have to start cranking out some serious mileage this weekend to make my goals. I am only at 27 km currently and want to end up with 55. The last two runs have felt bad but my times indicate I am still improving so I will just keep cranking out the distance. I have a long run tonight and most likely a couple of runs on Saturday followed up by 10km on Sunday so that should keep me fairly busy this weekend. It has been HOT!!! With the humidex it has been nearing 40 degrees. I have decided to run in the evenings as a result. I love it though and I am starting to feel myself settle into the running routine with only one day off this week I am beginning to realize what the next year is going to feel like.
I just finished reading a book by Ernst van Aaken Called "Van Aaken Method". I am a huge proponent of long slow distance and started working towards the "Lydiard Method" way of training earlier this Spring. Van Aaken was experimenting with long slow distance before Lydiard, as early as the 40's. Though both methods are quite similar there are some slight differences. I experimented with both over the last bit and have merged the methods into a plan that works well for me, with my plan resembling Lydiard's method the closest. These endurance centered methods are the extreme opposite of the tempo or interval training methods that experienced popularity in the middle of the last Century, the premise of which is to run many anaerobic intervals (using more oxygen than you can breath causing lactic acid to form) without full recovery between intervals. What is Long Slow Distance? In a nutshell the theory involves running every day and running as much mileage...
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