Run-N-Sun
Club Challenge #3: Training Plan Assignments
Today,
you are assigning yourself to a Training Plan for the rest of this month. On
Monday, July 17th, you will be starting the 3rd week of
your assigned Training Plan (the 17th is the start of the 3rd week
of the month).
If you
successfully complete the next 2 weeks of your Training Plan, then you will
move up to the next training plan on July 1. For example, if you are on
Training Plan 0, and you complete all of the runs on that plan over the next
two weeks, then on July 1, you will start Training Plan1. (We start all of our
Training Plans on a Monday and July 1 happens to be a Monday.)
Moving
to the next Training Plan
If you
do not complete all of your assigned runs be the end of June, then you restart
the same Training Plan for July!
Training
Plans are like math classes: you only get to move to the next one if you
successfully complete the one you are currently taking.
The
way the Training Plans were assigned
Your
June Training Plan is determined by the number of consecutive CC seasons you
have completed at MND.
So, if
you ran CC last year, and not the year before, your Training Plan will be
Training Plan 1. If you have completed two consecutive CC seasons, your
Training Plan will be Training Plan 2.
You get
credit for running CC in grade school if that was your previous season or you
have been running CC ever since grade school. You only get credit for one
season of grade school CC and it has to be eighth grade.
You
will get to add one to your count if you ran MND Track during the previous
Spring. It has to you
ran in the just-ended Track season. Running Track two years ago does not count
but not last season does not count.
Some
Examples:
If you
are a Freshman, then you certainly did not run CC for
MND last year (because you were in grade school). So, in this case, you have no
seasons of experience and you should be in Training Plan 0 (for 0 seasons of
previous experience).
If you
are a freshman and you did run CC in grade school, then have one season of
experience and you will be assigned to Training Plan 1.
If you
are a sophomores and you ran CC last year but not in grade school, then you
have 1 season of experience and you will also be assigned to Training Plan 1.
If you
are a sophomore and you ran CC in grade school but you did run MND CC last
year, and you ran MND Track in the Spring, you have 2
seasons of experience so you will be assigned to Training Plan 2.
Exceptions:
Injury
There
are always exceptions to any rule.
Here is
a big one: any CC or previous Track season that you did not complete because of
injury does not count toward determining your June Training Plan.
Let’s
say you are a junior and you ran MND CC the last two years, but no grade school
CC, and no MND T&F. So, that would give you two seasons of experience and,
normally, you would start in Training Plan 2. But, in your case, you did not
finish the last CC season healthy so that does not count as a season of
experience. So subtract one season of experience and you should start in
Training Plan 1
This
exception is important! We do not want you to repeatedly get injured. If we
pretend injuries do not happen, then injuries will keep happening. Lowering
your Training Plan makes sure we take those injuries into consideration.
A
Surprise Run-N-Sun points opportunity!
Understand?
I hope so because determining your Training Plan is your next Run-N-Sun
Challenge.
First,
answer the following questions:
Q1: how many consecutive seasons
have you participated in CC, include eight grade CC, but not 7th or
6th grade CC seasons?
Q2: how many CC seasons did you
not finish because of injury?
Q3: did you run Track last Spring (at MND or in grade school)?
Now
determine your training plan by take the answer to Q1, subtract the answer to
Q2, and add 1 if the answer to Q3 is yes, or add 0 if the answer to Q3 is no.
The
answer to that math problem is your Training Plan.
Group
Me with:
Your
answers to Q1, Q2, Q3, and your Training Plan. For full credit your Group Me
message MUST look like this (your answers may differ):
Q1: 2, Q2: 0, Q3: yes.
Training Plan 3