I’m nearing the end of the transition period for the TFTNA training program. In the book under “Building your own base period endurance plan” it says “Count only the aerobic volume when planning the progression of training. … If you have been using the full weekly training volume to build your progression don’t worry that this is going to ruin your training plan.”
Well, that’s me. Based on comments here, elsewhere, and who knows what I turned “Count everything!” into “Strength/climbing time counts towards your total volume.” And it seemed to fit the examples in the book, at least at first.
Now I’m preparing the training plan for base week 1 and the examples are breaking down. A long Z1 of 30%, steep Z1/Z2 of 20%, two Max Strength sessions, and 45min of climbing leaves me with only 10 minutes for the “rest of the volume.”
Any recommendations on how to proceed? I’m finishing the transition period at around 4 hours total. I’ve considered recalculating to have base week 1 be 2.5 hrs aerobic + strength + climbing. It would work out to about the same total volume, although my “long Z1” runs would be less than half what I’ve been running.
Edit: Current log attached. There’s some (drastic) variation in hours for the first few weeks as I was trying to figure things out.
Edit:edit: This training program has been amazing! I used to hike a lot but running was rarely above 5k. On week 5 I casually ran a 10k!
