Hi
I’ve been using TR since the early Spring and I really enjoy both the structure and the progress. I wonder about one adjustment I’d like to make if its possible. I’m a hospital based physician (pediatric critical care) and as such my clinical schedule is a little unusual. I work a number (12-14) of “clinical service weeks” at my hospital a year. These weeks are Monday through Sunday and high stress long hours. Its pretty challenging to maintain my training and get in enough sleep etc. However, I’ve noticed that when my service weeks land on endurance/deload weeks its a lot more salubrious! I can even on occasion extend my e-bike commute home to do perhaps one of the rides I actually have a power meter on one of the bikes so I can really hit the target! When I work out this way I’m so much better off with better sleep and more energy after the week of service. When I do more interval based weeks its close to impossible and I have a terrible time getting adequate sleep since my workouts end up being late. (In my off service weeks I do administrative work for the hospital and teach etc so its not totally off but much less hours)
So here is my question(s):
- Is there a way to schedule these specific service weeks as endurance weeks?
- Should I do this? My service weeks are not evenly paced: I have a few this summer then I don’t have any in September then I’m every other week in October and November. So I would be doing the harder programming longer sometimes or even toggling week by week between more intervals and endurance. (I train TR because I want to be a strong cyclist and as of now I don’t race).
- If I can’t program it in should/could I just use workout alternatives on my service weeks and would AI note this and make corrections?
Does anyone else work their program around these types of rather disruptive schedules? Im 52 and I LOVE my job so I’m going to have to figure this out for at least another decade…
I’m interested in any advise I can get…
Thanks!