Subject: RE: Training for multiple events First off, make sure you give your body sufficient time to recover after the races and also during a normal training week. Most likely, this means 1 day completely off and one lighter day per week. After the race, take a day off making sure you rehydrate, refuel, stretch and if at all possible schedule a massage.
In terms of the two distances... you will need speed for both, so you probably want to keep intervals in your schedule (from the sprint training plan ), yet you need endurance, so you want to keep some over the longer training sessions from the Oly as well. This means that when you go hard, you will go short and very hard (too hard for Oly only training ), and when you go long, you will go much slower, but longer (which will be too long and slow for Sprint only training ). It's just no way around it, you will have to compromise.... either you get reasonably good at both, or you dedicate your training and classify one race as you A race (highest priority ) and the other as your B race (want to do well, but not expecting to place super high ). |