We had a great week - even with many people gone for the holiday and other events, we had a strong showing at practice, the girls nearly hit their goal of 40 at practice (it would have happened had it not been for the holiday), and good workouts and minutes all around.
So now we move into our first major recovery week of the season. Usually we try to get a recovery week about every 4th week, but with our buildup we have been able to keep it going until now. But now… let's enjoy it. The purpose of a recovery week is obviously to recover. Most of you have been working very hard and consistently building up your minutes and workouts for the first 5 weeks of the season. So a recovery week will allow you body to adapt to this buildup you have had and rest the legs and mind a little as well. It is important that you still run during the recovery week - and workouts are posted over on the workout blog (found on the right column of this blog), but you will notice that the intensity and volume are way down for the week (even taking out a few of the afternoon runs for you Level 3's). Those that are going off to camp or vacations this week, follow the same guidelines we always have for those situations - do your very best to get the runs in, and if you can't just get some sort of run in. Everyone have a great week, enjoy it, push yourselves and your team, and look for updates from your captains about locations of practice and whatnot for this upcoming week. And be ready for some strong weeks coming up soon!
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