Hi Ron.
I corrected the link, thank you.
By “splitting” I mean to split running workout inside a single session. For example, instead of running 10 km without break you can split it by 5×5: or 7×3, etc. In the breaks you can do some strength exercises. It may be less physically and mentally demanding for beginners.

What do you mean by splitting the run? You mean morning and afternoon sessions?

Also can you link your article in “In my opinion, some strength exercises after potentially damaging workouts, including long runs, help to realign disturbing muscle fibers (see article)”

Thanks.

Hi Axel,
Thank you for your comment. Your article is quite interesting.
It will be exciting to see how you overcome limitation N2 (modelling incorporate recovery).

You might be interested in this recent paper which demonstrates that CP and W’ are artefacts that arise because people fit the wrong kind of model (specifically: a hyperbolic function) to power–duration data.

There is a better performing, simple alternative model. And when you this, neither CP nor W’ exist.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.31.506028v2

Of course, the rate of spending W’, defined abstractly as “the ability to do work above CP”, is different. The more intense you work, the faster you will get tired. And the slow component is one of many possible problems. For example, you are exhausted after running 800 m. What is the reason? Slow component? Hardly. Nothing “slow” in this event. We can say that you have spent your W’. But what exactly did you spend? Fuel? Not really. The cause in this case is most likely contamination by by-products. And what by-products and the rate of accumulation can be quite specific. For another race, say the 3000m, the picture may be different. So the question is: what exactly is W’ and what exactly is fixed? In my opinion, the ability to perform work above the CP is quite complex and cannot be expressed in some kind of universal “fixed” number.