okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Grading training
Sunday, I did a 70 minute training run. I carried a map and kept track of my progress. I ran on trails with a few hills.
Yesterday, I worked late and didn't do any training.
Today, I did a short trail run with some intervals. I ran on flat trails. I would have run more, but I needed to get home and mow the lawn.
While I was mowing, I decided it'd be nice to be able to "grade" each run and then add up the grades on a weekly (or monthly) basis to get some measure of how well I'd trained. What I had in mind was a simple system. I'd count up points based on the training. I haven't thought through this very carefully, but maybe I'd give myself 3 points if I ran in O' relevant terrain and 1 point for each 30 minutes of running and some points for running hard (or easy when rest was called for) and so on.
Maybe it is a completely flaky idea (I've had a lot of those). I'll give it some more thought and see what I come up with.
