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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: ADARQ's journal
« on: June 21, 2018, 10:16:36 pm »i for one am not shocked that your body was like "DELOAD" after consecutive first-ever 100+ mile weeks.
true but, had more to do with the "triple" that day (race, light long run, light trot) & the pre-3rd-run-stretching I think than the mileage. feel fine from high mileage.
stretching my ankles/calves by squatting into it & holding it, seemed to pre-fatigue my quads. then I did that third light run and left VMO cramped. If I go back into that same stretch, hits the spot exactly. The annoying thing is, I remember thinking I shouldn't be doing that stretch pre-run, but it felt good like stretching always does, then it probably contributed to me being wrecked like it sometimes does.
I'm surprised heh.how many miles were u running per week prior to 100 mile weeks??
all over the place:
04/30/2018: 86.0 *
05/07/2018: 54.5 *
05/14/2018: 53.1 *
05/21/2018: 39.8 *
05/28/2018: 100.1*
06/04/2018: 102.5*
06/11/2018: 100.4 in 6 days*
^ Need to finish going back through every week on strava and listing it out in my tracker.
i've done 80-90+ before for like 3-4 weeks, last fall.
Do you think deloads are as necessary and as helpful for high sress periods of long distance as they are for lifting and explosive work?
yup, 100%.
performance in running feels very much like performance for vert. I'm starting to execute the same strategy, with similar results: high frequency, highly concentrated, mini fatigue blocks + mini deloads for "peaking". I did that last fall/winter as well: accumulated high mileage in october/november, transitioned into every other day specialized training in December, set all of my big PR's (back then). This time around, i'd like to accumulate my mileage throughout the entire summer, through october, and peak in november/december, with mini-deloads/peaks sprinkled throughout.
after higher mileage, once you reduce the mileage/intensity, especially after full rest days, you fly. very similar to dunking when piling on the squat volume/intensity, then stripping it away, and flying (vertical) ~48-72 hours afterwards. CNS related for sure.
it's often felt like i've been executing the same game plan as I was with dunking .. as of recently, feels EXACTLY the same. I went absolutely apeshit in my final ~6 months training dunking, was squatting multiple times per day, dunked nearly every day for 2 months iirc, did tons of heavy high rep lifting, and was flying.
and ya i'd say deloads are very necessary in running. you can get stale, but when you get stale for too long, you start to adapt towards being slower. can't let that happen. Have to have planned deloads or deload-by-feel, can't let the CNS get beat down to the point where it learns to suppress itself "permanently" to survive. A suppressed CNS = reduced running economy.
2cents!
peace!


