Pretty much every week I set my training peaks up, (training peaks is a training software that really good athletes unlike me use to plan their training and to log it, I've used it since 2014, so over 10 years). If I'm good, I'll set it on a Sunday night, I'll look at my work diary and then look at training peaks and then I'll slot the sessions and where I think we can go.
I try to take into account the fact that I need to recover more because I'm old and but I'll try to be ambitious about what I'm going to achieve.
Training piece is an algorithm that calculates your chronic training load, which is a sign of fitness, and it will project to the end of the week what your CTL will be.
It's a hobby, I don't get paid for it, I enjoy it. It's a hobby.
The problem is that almost all the time I never make my plan, almost every single week.
I miss it and I'll never make it.
And then I go back and I'm hard on myself cos I say.
“I didn't set it up right”, and I was over enthusiastic, and I was unrealistic.
But what is the alternative?
The alternative is to set a lesser plan and then stop when I get it, or potentially to set a lesser plan and then overshoot it or ideally not to set a plan at all and just to say, “well I'll do what I can”.
I know though what happens to me if I don't set a plan.
Don't set a plan, don't do.
I'd always prefer to be striving for better than striving for less. I'd always prefer to be striving for something.
Blog Post Number - 4241
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