Peak week in marathon training is the final moment when you’re asking your body to push through. Every muscle in your body feels like it’s on lunch break, but you still have miles left on your long run.
Head down, now you’re wondering if this race is even possible.
Welcome to peak week!
Well I hope it’s peak week, it could just be a rough training day – those definitely happen too!
Today we’re exploring why your training plan forces you into that week of fatigue and how to add speed work to your plan without injury. It’s also really important to note that peak week shouldn’t be a massive jump in volume or speed from previous weeks!
What is Peak Week Training?
According to most studies, we can improve our fitness for four to six months before hitting a temporary plateau.
The goal of a training plan is to consistently increase mileage and intensity to a specific peak week, which will be the hardest week of training followed by taper to race day.
When we say hardest week of training, what that means is after months of building the cumulative fatigue is definitely starting to hit home. And yet this is the week where you might be doing your longest marathon training run with some goal pace miles.
It’s going to be doable, but tough.
By following this method, you…
