Christoph F. Eick's Training Plan 2005 Season

Week MO TU WE TH FR SA SU S
Dec 6 5 -- m: 2x1M (7) 5 -- 17 -- 35
Dec 13 -- 5 5 -- 6 20 -- 36
Dec 20 -- t: 2M (9) 3+7 4+5 7 7 -- 42
Dec 27 6 5 ct: 2x2000 (6) 5 20 -- 6 48
Jan 3 r: 2x5x400 (6) 6 ct: 3x1.5M (8) -- 20 -- 12 52
Jan 10 4+4 v: 10x300; 800 (7) -- m: 8M (12) 6 5 6 44
Jan 17 7 v: M-1200-800-400 (7) 5 -- t: 2x2.5M (11) -- 22 52
Jan 24 -- v: 200-400-600-800-1000-1000-800-600-400-200 (8) 6 -- 6 -- 3M Half (16) 36
Jan 31 6 5 -- 7 20 6 -- 44
Feb 7 7 6k: 8x700 (7) 11 -- t: 4M (8) 17 -- 50
Feb 14 7 v: M-2x200-M (7) -- 11 -- 5 ct: 2x2800 (6) 36
Feb 21 -- 30k: 3x1M (6) 6 -- -- 4 NO (27) 43


r:= leg speed workout, usually done faster than 3K-pace with 100% recovery
v:= VO2-max-workout, done at approx. 5K-pace with 1/3 to 3/4 recovery
ct:= cruise intervals, run at threshhold pace (10K-pace + 15 seconds) with 1/5 recovery.
t:= threshold (tempo) run; easy running is interleaved with 1-3 segments of running at threshhold pace
8k/ 10k / 30k: running at 8k / 10K / 30K pace
m:= running at marathon-pace
h: hill fartlek or intervals
ftl:= fartlek workout
st:= 5-8 20-25 sec. strides approx. 1M-pace.