Recovered and Back At It

After last Saturday’s Spartan Ultra, I gave myself a full week of recovery and am back to training today.  I made the decision to reset the calendar on the MTI Max Effort Strength + 6 Mile Run program and begin again from day 1, since I had not yet progressed very deep into the program.  While some of the reps in the workout seemed a little harder to me than they would of pre-Ultra, I was able to complete the workout without issue and it felt great to get back to training.  The only minor modification I am making to the program is, for the deadlift portion on the lifting days, I have decided to use a training max and not a true max for the lift calculations to make the lifting days a bit less fatiguing and to allow for better performance on the next days runs.  Overall, I can see this program helping to make further improvements to my running speed and am looking forward to the completing the next 6 weeks.