Training for Multi Event Championships Racing
For me training for multi event championships racing means replication in training of the championship scenario. This is how I go about it.
Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in Dunedin NZ 2018 (3 weeks) is 5000m track, 800m, 8000m XC on consecutive days plus 1500m 3 days later. Australian Masters Athletics Championships in Perth 2018 (April, my first big goal) is 10000m track, 1500m, 5000m, 8000m XC on consecutive days. It's not easy to pull out 3-4 great races on consecutive days. Four days is pushing it for me (especially after 10000m), so I have to do sit and kick in one of those races to pull it off.
Last week I ran Parkrun 5km 16:33, track session 3 x 400m, 3 x 200m, Parkrun 5km 16:42 on consecutive days. I was completely untapered, clocking up 130km for the week. This weekend I'll repeat that again. That's what gives me confidence I don't have to hold anything back. Of course there is rest, fuel, hydration, self massage, strides and recovery runs as well as the racing.
Luckily World Masters Athletics Championships includes more rest days although a half marathon is potentially at the end of it...and I'm coming up against fresh runners every event.
Today is was an easy 85 minute recovery run in the same forest Deek trained in back in the 1980s (what is left of it). Tomorrow will be the same.
Today Keith ran 3 x 600m efforts plus 400m with 200m jog. Splits: 2:02,2:04,2:04,80.
Below a virtual New Zealand replication of the opening days of the Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in 3 weeks. Races are 5000m in Auckland World Masters Games this year and 800m, 8000m XC from Tauranga Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in 2012.
Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in Dunedin NZ 2018 (3 weeks) is 5000m track, 800m, 8000m XC on consecutive days plus 1500m 3 days later. Australian Masters Athletics Championships in Perth 2018 (April, my first big goal) is 10000m track, 1500m, 5000m, 8000m XC on consecutive days. It's not easy to pull out 3-4 great races on consecutive days. Four days is pushing it for me (especially after 10000m), so I have to do sit and kick in one of those races to pull it off.
Last week I ran Parkrun 5km 16:33, track session 3 x 400m, 3 x 200m, Parkrun 5km 16:42 on consecutive days. I was completely untapered, clocking up 130km for the week. This weekend I'll repeat that again. That's what gives me confidence I don't have to hold anything back. Of course there is rest, fuel, hydration, self massage, strides and recovery runs as well as the racing.
Luckily World Masters Athletics Championships includes more rest days although a half marathon is potentially at the end of it...and I'm coming up against fresh runners every event.
Today is was an easy 85 minute recovery run in the same forest Deek trained in back in the 1980s (what is left of it). Tomorrow will be the same.
Today Keith ran 3 x 600m efforts plus 400m with 200m jog. Splits: 2:02,2:04,2:04,80.
Below a virtual New Zealand replication of the opening days of the Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in 3 weeks. Races are 5000m in Auckland World Masters Games this year and 800m, 8000m XC from Tauranga Oceania Masters Athletics Championships in 2012.
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