Rough Draft: Training Base Week

Here's a rough draft of the base week that I'm going to start using. Paul C pointed me to Gordo's base week concept and I've been meaning to set one up since last December. A base week helps a working athlete with a family fit the training in. One of its key advantages is that everybody knows where the athlete is at any given time. A habit develops which reduces the "life footprint" of the training investment.

This base week includes 23+ hours of work. I've included a mid-week long run and long bike which I rarely do now (but need to). This plan is an attempt to invest in consistency instead of epic effort and epic recovery. Slowly ratcheting up the fitness.

Worth noting that this does appear to take up a bunch of my work day but realize that my work day is pretty much 24/7. I'm trying to skew work towards the mornings as much as possible. Many of the swim/run workouts will likely actually happen from 6-9am but the plan looked cleaner if they all start at 7am. My goal here is to get the workouts out of the way of family time. I still have a good portion of the weekend and Thursday evening blocked off though.

I need to verify that they have a pilates for me on Thursday am... there's a discrepancy between what's on their website and what's on their handwritten whiteboard (which is more accurate? prolly the wb). So some juggling will happen. And some dropping will happen. But I'm hoping that this will become a solid base week to carry me forward into IM Fla in November.

I plan on taking a couple weeks to get into the swing of this plan and work out some of the kinks.

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