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Scott,

After putting your suggestions in training peaks and looking over my other workouts I have a couple of follow up Qs.  Note that I will roll straight into the 16 week Mountaineering course after I am done with this.  No specific objectives this year other than be ready for WA volcano ski season: Mt Adams, Mt St Helens, maybe Mt Baker again.  Anyways on to the Qs:

1. I should probably have a rest week in the next 8 weeks.  What would that look like?
   • Keep intensity but lower the volume?
   • replace 4×800 @ 6 min pace and 2x10min @ 7 min pace with Z1 recovery workouts and keep the strides workout?
2. I plan to keep strength training 2-3x per week (as I already have been doing)  Is there any reason to modify this or be concerned about the days this happens?  (I plan to have speed and strength on different days)

James,

Agreed that my all out mile has improved over the last year of focusing on aerobic base, but I am still 37 seconds short of beating my 7th grade self 😉