It’s been a long time since my last FF or even HM. I’m still clinging onto numbers I logged before doing a century event back in May. Since then I’ve got a new job and am struggling to find time to train much at all because of long and intense working hours. (My new Sufferlandria is… the office )
When I do a workout I can still complete them on old numbers. But I’m not doing many. What now? Should I just try to do a new plan/random workouts on the old numbers? Or re-test and see where I am now? I worry I’m genuinely perma-fatigued and won’t have the constitution to make it through FF properly.
FWIW: To test, I almost always do the 1 week test plan that has a HM on day 3 and FF on day 7. The HM helps pacing the FF by setting the FF targets, and the 6 day lead-in helps with consistency and reproducibility. It’s also a very solid week of workouts so don’t think of it as a lost week.
Yep, I’ve been aiming to do that but I’m working from 6am-5pm most days now and have to commute four days per week as well. (I treat a couple of small hills as intervals on my single speed Brompton…!) so in reality I’m looking at doing a HM midweek while shattered or a FF on a weekend when recovering. Have just put it in the calendar for next week again, let’s see. I’ll try Team Scream first for the Nov Challenge!
Made it 90% of the way through Team Scream but had to dial it down for the final two pulls, I just had nothing left… That was a hard workout, gives me some optimism that maybe I’m not too far off my numbers after all.
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