Workout ‘rankings’

[elpaca]

Might not be an easy answer to this one but I wanted to know if you’re chasing a specific goal like 2k improvement and you have to miss a workout for whatever reason, how you decide whether to play catch up on it or just to keep going with the program?

For example - if on the Pete Plan and you miss a 4x2000m day, is it better to just get steady state 15km meters in the next day, or should you absolutely ensure that you get that middle distance pain in.

I guess I’m effectively asking the ‘value’ of each of the workouts in a plan like the PP. Might not matter too much if it’s just one or two either, but if it’s becoming a common trend then you’ll start to see negative effects?

[Dangerscouse]

The steady stuff should be there to accommodate the harder stuff, so, assuming that you're sufficiently recovered, the 4 x 2k should take priority.

I say 'should' as we're sometimes inclined to take the easier option due to laziness, or you might intuitively need an easier session, but it's an unavoidable fact that the harder sessions are where the magic happens.

[aussie nick]

Might not be an easy answer to this one but I wanted to know if you’re chasing a specific goal like 2k improvement and you have to miss a workout for whatever reason, how you decide whether to play catch up on it or just to keep going with the program?

For example - if on the Pete Plan and you miss a 4x2000m day, is it better to just get steady state 15km meters in the next day, or should you absolutely ensure that you get that middle distance pain in.

I guess I’m effectively asking the ‘value’ of each of the workouts in a plan like the PP. Might not matter too much if it’s just one or two either, but if it’s becoming a common trend then you’ll start to see negative effects?

for me, when I was going Pete's Plan, the two interval sessions were what I built my week around and then I did as much steady state as I could fit in...generally either 2 or 3 sessions...and occasionally one of these 'steady state' would be a harder distance piece. But I always wanted to beat my time from the previous parallel interval session 3 weeks earlier and that was how I measure my progress outside of time trials every 9 weeks