Marco Altini
Nov 18
Marco Altini’s Substack

Closing a big training block, running 1200km in 2 months (+33k of vert), with consistent intensity, and feeling good. Building up well since the beginning of September and Winschoten 50 km, after some difficulties over summer.

This week I’ll rest more as I’d like to try a few things to assess aerobic fitness and durability now, and I want to do it when fresh.

First up is the Florence marathon on Sunday, that I’ll run in zone 2 (+faster finish if feeling good). I’m hoping to run similarly to last spring at Lamone and Boston when I used the same strategy and I had good fitness (that would be 3h 10-15’ for a z2 marathon with faster finish).

The week after I’d like to try 60-70k of hilly asphalt Passatore style and test some tweaks with nutrition and pacing on the climbs (and maybe shoes) while still far from the race, so that I have plenty of time to recover mentally.

If all of this goes well, I might race a 5k as well mid December when I’ll be in Amsterdam, but that’s very low priority at the moment.

My resting physiology finally looks good again, with a few weeks of solid and stable data, which I hadn’t had in a while. The screenshot is courtesy of HRV4Training Pro, which you can try here: hrv4training.web.app

How is your training going?

Nov 18
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