M'kay

Dale,

I haven't followed your daily workouts closely enough to know is this is the normal routine, but do you normally separate your two speed workouts each week by only one day? If that has worked for you then keep at it. But to allow proper recovery, I have always put two or even three days between my speed workouts. Do whatever works, I just thought I would add my two cents...which is exactly what it's worth.

Yup, my normal schedule is Monday double, Tues/Thurs hard & doubles), and Sat long. My Tues workouts will often be either a medium-long run or shorter leg-speed intervals (i.e. the 1 min Fartleks).

I haven't had too much trouble with the schedule but this week I hit Tuesday's repeats too hard, which of course, set me up to really feel it by today.

I hear you on the recovery and sequencing though....Funny, I was really thinking about it yesterday before I went to the track. I'd considered a Monday, Thursday, Sat schedule, but that just shorts my long run recovery time and with getting closer to the marathon and adding more MP+ miles in...Not enough days in the week, I suppose.

So I'm guessing you have one day between your 2nd hard workout and your long run? Do you recover from long runs pretty easily?

$0.02 from a guy who's run in the Olympic Trials is worth a bit more in this case :) Thanks for the input.