12 week plan to 8 weeks

Background: Last spring/summer I trained for and ran a 50k in October 2022.  A week later my wife and I started training for and ran a marathon at the end of March 2023. Through out that time I was also lifting pretty consistently. It was a 3 day split (legs, back and bi, chest & tri). Legs consisted of heavy squatting (5×5) followed by single leg variations as found in the Uphill athlete book. I trained legs up until the month of the event at which point, I laid off the weights for legs.

The past 3 weeks I’ve reduced running to like 3 times a week and reintroduced weight lifting for legs.

Now: My wife and I just recently signed up for a guided Mountaineering trip up Mt. Baker at the end of June. This gives us roughly 8 weeks to train.

I bought the 12 week program, how can I go about adjusting it to 8 weeks?

Do I,

1. Start from the beginning and follow along up until the trip?
2. Skip the first 4 (transition weeks) weeks and start at week 5
3. Start at week 1 but adjust the weight lifting? ie. start max strength lifts

Looking forward to reading our thoughts and suggestions.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by JRH2023.