Early Scoping Australian Masters Athletics Championships, Adelaide, 2025 ; Racing Plan ; Training Plan

Racing Plan: A possible Racing scenario for the Australian Masters Athletics Championships, Adelaide, 2025 and using previous AMA Championships as a guide could be for distance events: Day 1 10000m Track, Day 2 1500m Track, Day 3 5000m Track, Day 4 8000m XC. Working Backwards from my first race in the AMA Championships gives me a 10 day Taper commencement of around 7th April 2025 to reach a peak in my first race on around 18th April 2025. In recent years I've ditched the 1500m although when I last ran it (Sydney, 2023) I still ran OK in all my events. In July 2023 I tore my left hamstring in Sutherland 2 Surf and ditched the 1500m having not been able to train for it at all. I would like to race 1500m again. I can decide at the 2025 Championships whether I run it or not.

Training Plan: My training for Block 1 has already commenced and will run until the end of 2024. It is a basic high training Volume from 100km building towards 150km each week with a key session of one Mile Hill Efforts. Block 2 will include a mix of distance intervals from 2000m down to 400m. Below is a Block 2 Table of training volume, run distances and times from 2016-2018 as a guide. 28/08/2018 15/10/2016 8/10/2016 10/09/2016 5/09/2016 2/04/2016 12/03/2016 Volume 122km 140km 154km 120km 100km 125km 121km 135km 123km 145km 2000m 6:38 6:34 6:34 7:00 6:38 6:31 6:29 6:34 6:31 6:20 1500m 4:55 4:57 4:59 5:03 4:57 4:50 4:49 4:51 4:49 4:48 1200m 3:55 3:57 3:57 4:06 3:59 3:56 3:53 3:54 3:51 3:48 800m 2:32 2:33 2:34 2:36 2:35 2:29 2:27 2:30 2:26 2:33 400m 73,70 73,70 72,67 69,68 66,69