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Training breaks are essential following a big goal race. We need recovery planned into our year in order to get faster.
The ideal training break is around 2 weeks. This allows us to give the mind and body rest but not totally detrain.
We will loose a little fitness but that loss will be more than made up for in our next training cycle.
The biggest thing here is that while 2 weeks isn’t long, we still need to ensure we give ourselves a build up phase to ease back into training.
If you’ve taken more than 2 weeks of rest, this period becomes even more important.
The build up phase allows our body to ease back into things and adapt. We use this time to build mileage back up in a controlled manner so that we don’t do too much too quick. It helps us to build our aerobic fitness - the basis for our endurance.
During this time it is important that we don’t also start pushing the intensity. We can start incorporating strides and light workouts but we want the goal to be creating a strong aerobic foundation that will set us up for the training ahead.
Just like a house or a building, a strong foundation is necessary for the rest of the structure to be intact.
Are you in a build up phase following a training break? Let us know in the comments!
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