Okay first a few stats: When I am training "hard" I swim 18-20K per week in 5 workouts, with one wokrout being only 2K of technique work. I trained hard from Jan to March and swam pretty well at a taper meet. Generally I think that I need 10 weeks of hard training, followed by a 10 day taper to have a succesful taper meet.
Well, first I got sick and now that I am almost better I will be going out of town for 10 days. I have no chance at having a succesful training for my big summer meet because it is now only 8 weeks off. Facot in a taper and I am only going to get 6 weeks of hard work minus 10 days off. So my question is:
How much yardage should I do NOW so that when the fall rolls around and I start training for my next big meet I am not starting over? I don't have the mental energy to commit to full training, but I don't want to lose gound. Thoughts...
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From what I've read you can lose the physiological adaptations to training ("it") pretty fast such that it takes at least as long to regain them as it did to acquire them (remember the early vs. late bloomer debate). If I understand your question, I'd treat this as a long season and focus on building/rebulding an endurance base(En 1 sets, descending some to En 2 or 3 at the end). Since you're a sprinter you should do some sprinting every day and once or twice a week a lactate production set. I think in four weeks you'll be back where you were (something similar happened to me in December).
From what I've read you can lose the physiological adaptations to training ("it") pretty fast such that it takes at least as long to regain them as it did to acquire them (remember the early vs. late bloomer debate). If I understand your question, I'd treat this as a long season and focus on building/rebulding an endurance base(En 1 sets, descending some to En 2 or 3 at the end). Since you're a sprinter you should do some sprinting every day and once or twice a week a lactate production set. I think in four weeks you'll be back where you were (something similar happened to me in December).
