Who Wants to Get Active--Belle
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Dec 26, 2007 3:17 PM
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Gale Bernhardt
in response to: MelissaE
Gale Bernhardt
in response to: MelissaE
Melissa ~
You are creative, indeed. 
Actually, you bring up a good question about training. In Belle's case, she "paid it forward" in that she did a longer workout than was assigned on the training plan. In most cases people try to make up for lost training during the week by doing extra on the weekends.
It's tough for me to make a blanket statement that says "never" do more or less than the plan because with pre-built plans, the user needs to make some conscious decisions about how to best use the plan.
In some cases the plan might be easier than the athlete is capable of accomplishing. In this case, adding a bit to the training makes sense.
In cases where the athlete is doing more haphazardly, there are at least a couple of risks: injury and loss of motivation because the training was too much too soon.
Hope the remaining workouts between then and now went well?
Because you ran six miles, does that mean you can skip the next five one-mile runs? I'm sure Gale would be OK with that, right?