013: Cycle Your Training to Get Faster

What the heck is periodization of training? It's a fun vocabulary word that refers to cycling your training plan. If you are shooting for a goal race, or if you just want to keep improving and getting faster, training cycles are very important. Macro cycles are the big chunks of your training plan that have one goal in mind, like one season of the year. Micro cycles are the weeks within that larger macro cycle, where you vary your mileage and purpose of your ...