Preparing for a marathon has a specific purpose. Running the race and finishing it in the best possible way. For some it’s crossing the finish line, for others it’s improving a personal best. In my case it’s the latter.
1 Pillars for preparing for a marathon
2 Taking the marathon to the professional field
3 The key for me is this
Pillars for preparing for a marathon
I have learned something important about training plans for running a marathon. There are four important pillars:
Session of intervals to run faster or at the pace you want to go in the race.
Long run to gradually accustom the body to the distance.
Adaptation weeks every four weeks where the body is given time to take on the load.
Sessions of very slow runs to be able to do the series and long runs with strength.
I am not an expert in this email data but it is as far as I have come and what has also given me the confidence to train according to my own training plan.
The key is to alternate intense days with easy days so that you can endure and be fresh in each training session.
Taking the marathon to the professional sphere
Now then, how do we take this to the working world?
We could say that the week goes from Monday to Friday and the work days are our training days.
Monday: we start the week three weeks of workation are over – my summary in a gentle way. We must not burn ourselves out, there is still a lot of week ahead and we must take on the rest with strength.
Tuesday: intense work day. Very high pace. The objective is to check off tasks as if there were no tomorrow. Few breaks to get the most out of the day.
Wednesday: calmer day but not like a Monday. We work at a “slow but steady” pace. We don’t go like a rocket.
Thursday: we increase the pace and duration. We go fast but with the objective of working a little more that day. We might put in 1-2 extra ws data hours to finish long tasks. It has to be done in one day no matter what.
Friday: an “extra ball” type day. The work for the week is already done. Today we can take it a little slower or faster depending on how productive we have been from Monday to Thursday.
The key for me is this
What we don’t do at work is this
Alternate intense days with less intense ones. We go every day like a rocket or we have weeks with zero productivity. We don’t have that way of planning the days.
“Well today is Tuesday, we have to rush and everyone has to get twice as much work done as on a normal day.” Or also “today is Wednesday, we can go a little slower because yesterday we got work done like champions.”
We have to respect that our head can’t always go at the same pace. We don’t notice it because there is no brain pain like there is when you have overdone it.