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Planning Your Racing Season Let FUN be your guide! Prepared for the Oak Park Runners Club March 2, 2010

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Presentation by Coach Leach to the Oak Park Runners Club March 1, 2010 (c) 2010 Coach Leach

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Page 1: Coach Leach Planning Your Racing Season

Planning Your Racing Season

Let FUN be your guide!

Prepared for the Oak Park Runners Club  ‐March 2, 2010

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What do you want?

How are you going to get what you want?

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PREPARATION IS ESSENTIAL!

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ALERT – Your GREATESTCHALLENGE will be:

How are you going to fit your training and racing into your life? 

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•Build a Race Schedule

•Develop your training plan specific to your Race  Schedule

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Break your racing season into 2 segments with 3‐6 weeks of reduced training volume and intensity between segments 

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Healthy 5, 8 and 10 K Racing requires only 5 – 7 days for recovery between races 

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Healthful 10 Mile and Half Marathon Racing requires 10 

– 21 days for recovery between races 

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MAKE IT FUN!

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Develop your training plan specific to your Race  Schedule

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Levels of training commitment –

1 – Occasional workouts only2 – 1‐2 training sessions each week for a total of 

10‐15 miles3 – 3 training sessions each week for a total of 

20‐25 miles4 – 4‐5 training sessions each week for a total of 

30+ miles5 – 7 or more training sessions each week for a 

total of 40 ‐ 60 miles

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Racing Distance Possibilities –

5K, 8K, 10K –Levels 2, 3, 4 & 5

10 Miles, Half & Full Marathon –Levels 3, 4 & 5

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Plan your training effectively by accounting for ‐

•Running Economy•Running Efficiency

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Running Economy is the burning of your energy in the presence or absence of Oxygen

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6 – 20 weeks of “Base Training” is to focus upon –

• Aerobic development via constant paced runs at low to moderate intensity

• Core & Strength Training targeting muscles of the arms, legs and hips

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8‐20 Weeks of your racing season is to focus upon –

•Speed Endurance via 1‐2 Tempo Runs and/or Speed workouts/week 

•Sustained Aerobic endurance via 3 Long Runs each month 

•Daily Core Exercises and Power Drills and Sprinting(1‐2 times each week)

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MAKE IT FUN!

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Running Efficiency is the biomechanical cost of your energy and Oxygen per unit of running time,  relative to your running speed

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Focus upon your “PAF” to improve your running 

efficiency –

•Posture•Arm Action•Foot Strike

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Deena Kastor during the 2006 LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon

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CARA’s “GAIT ANALYSIS”results are producing:

• Increased pace per mile of 30‐90 seconds

• Resolution of over 90%   of referred running related injuries

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MAKE IT FUN!

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The 3 Key Weekly Workouts for distances from 5 K to Full Marathon ‐

Long RunTempo or Lactate Threshold RunSpeed, Repetition or Interval 

Workouts

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Supplement your “3 Key Workouts” each week w/: 

• Recovery Runs• Strength and Core Training

• Stretching, Yoga, etc.

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Training is to be specific to racing distances, such as:

•Weekly training volume•Length of Long Runs•Frequency and intensity of Speed Training workouts

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• The total volume of repeated distances in Interval and Repetition training is to equal 3 K – 10 K for a 5 K or 10 K runner   

• Distances repeated in Interval and Repetition training is to be at a speed that results in a recovery to 120 BPM within 60‐90 seconds

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• Marathoners will (generally) have greater weekly training volume 

• Marathoners will have longer Long Runs

• Speed Training workouts for 5, 8  & 10 K runners will occur more frequently & at greater intensity than for Marathoners

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MAKE IT FUN!

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Effort based training and racing –

Heart‐rate measurement is the most effective guide toward individually appropriate training intensity for training and racing

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Making training FUN and INJURY FREE –

•Train with friends•Vary your workouts daily•Alternate hard days w/ easy days•Include SPEED Training

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MAKE IT FUN!

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And most of all –

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MAKE IT FUN!