[journal] 80/20 Endurance Norwegian Marathon Plan Review

I liked the plan, but there are some big caveats.Assumed audience: People familiar with the gist of the 80/20 endurance system, including its custom 7-zone system, and at least the broad strokes of the “Norwegian method” for endurance training. The 80/20 Norwegian plans are good, but they’re very different from the base plans in some important ways. Most importantly: they are lower volume and less overall intensity than the “regular” plans of the same “level” in the 80/20 system. That might be just what you’re looking for. It also might not get you quite as far as you hoped — it didn’t for me! That doesn’t make them bad plans. In the rest of this post, I’ll try to flesh out how they’re different, though, and therefore whether you might want to use them or skip them. The gist of the Norwegian-style method is to mix a high volume of very easy effort with a high volume of sub-lactate threshold efforts. The folks who have had most success have done “Norwegian doubles”: days with both a…