BASE TRAINING
Your running year has seasons just like a monthly calendar, and autumn is a great time of year to take stock of where you are, sort niggles and do the base training
2020 has been a strange one (*undestatement klaxon!) but let’s look forward to a strong 2021 by getting the basics right
After a year of cancelled races, we’re approaching the part of the year when we wouldn’t usually be racing much anyway. From October onwards, the race calendar clears and runners enjoy a chance to recover a little and take stock of how their running has gone.
Base training might not be as exciting as working towards a big race, but it’s an important part of your training year, because you can’t train as though race day is coming 52 weeks per year. After a big training cycle, the pros will take a recovery period and then enter a period of base training before their new training cycle starts. And we should do similar.