The weekend can be a time to build....

For the same reason that Australian athletes of all shapes, sizes and ability levels travel to Falls Creek every year the weekend can work in the same way. As a very young wombat I read about Derek Clayton and it was during this time of the week that he did a phenomenal amount of work. In fact eh was almost animalistic in his approach to training and the weekend.

As a wombat who works full time, and always has even as during my hay days, the weekend was a time to do some solid work. This came about for two reasons, again similarly to Falls Creek, there are no interruptions from work and there is time to rest between sessions. (Well this held true until little wombats arrived on the scene.)

Ideally you could get a Friday run done, wake Saturday and smash a morning session, recover, put in s light gym workout, recover, do the evening run, sleep, wake for the Sunday long run, recover (sleep) and then hit out the Sunday afternoon run. It also was a time where you could do some big mileage. Again because there was plenty of time to recover.

The same is a bit harder to achieve during the working week when a busy day of decision making, dealing with people and trying to manage a work site can leave you feeling flat prior to a session or run.

The Sunday long run is also a bonus of the weekend for those who train in the morning during the week. During the week if you over sleep its often a case of cutting the am run short. On the Sunday run if you over sleep it just tended to mean that you just ran a little bit later and possibly meant that you were a bit late for the family reunion that you did not really want to attend anyway.

Think of the weekend as a session within itself and use the time to recover, build and strengthen those things that you can't work on during the weekday....

Barrel on wombats...