Why golden wednesday? Quite simply 🙂 In the coming weeks and months I will hand in half a vacation day in the middle of the week. The strategy behind it is as follows: this allows me to do the long bike ride or something similar in the middle of the week.
The advantages are apparent:
1. Thus, the entire training week is evened out and, above all, the weekend is loosened up a bit and the long units no longer necessarily come up to me on two days.
2. Exactly for this reason I can take part in one or the other build-up competition on the weekend without having to feel guilty because the basic unit is canceled. Because the focus is still on the long distance.
3. By shifting the training week, I can of course regenerate much better.
4. And of course ... more and harder training is of course also possible 😉
5. But the main reason is: I can then sleep in on Wednesdays (which means 7:30 for me 😉 and also have a short nap around noon !!! :-)))
6. The boss is also happy because you are there almost the entire week and there is no way that you get left lying around as much as when you disappear for a whole week. In other words, it doesn't stand out at all.
In the longer term, such a training strategy makes more sense than, for example, an early training camp in March. For this you would take a week off, which translates into half a day's vacation for 10 weeks. If you subtract the rest weeks in every fourth week when you do not take vacation, you can therefore have a training time of 13 for the same number of vacation days! Bridging weeks (more than three months), actually not that bad 😉
skin in!
krelli
Hi Krelli,
I think the idea is good. I've been doing it since last year and I'm completely satisfied. It's just a little difficult to find someone who can already cycle for four hours on Wednesday noon ;-) The weekend is definitely more relaxed that way! Greetings Gabor