Aconcagua Training Kick-Off - 12 Weeks to Go!

What is Aconcagua?
Aconcagua - at 6962m a behemoth of a mountain. The highest outside the Himalayas. In 12 weeks' time I'll be flying to Argentina to once more join a Jagged Globe expedition, this time attempting to summit South America's highest peak. It'll be a 23 day round trip to the top and back.

Training for an "Event"
On October 16 I'm kicking off my 12-week training plan. Setting something like this up had worked a treat for my Marital Arts holiday earlier in the year. Over two weeks, I was able to train 2-3x per day (in the Singaporean heat) with the odd day off sightseeing. Without properly building up to this, I would have needed many more breaks in between training days.

What does my plan look like?
Aconcagua training will focus a little bit more on running and cycling, but the martial arts stuff is too much fun, to skip really.

I designed 3 phases, each one ramping up training volume. I'm looking at looooong days of walking on Aconcagua, that's why I'm concentrating on volume and not intensity.

I'll stick to my 3x90min Krav Maga sessions per week. Then add 3x60min gym heavy bag workouts and 1 5k run per week. In phases 2 and 3 I'll add more running and some cycling as well. I signed up for 4 10k trail runs, just to motivate myself to go outside and run.
Any missed Krav session will be replaced by a 10k run or a 90min heavy bag gym session.

Weekly Training Load
Phase 1	Phase 2	Phase 3
3x Krav	3x Krav	3x Krav
3x gym	3x gym	3x gym
1x 5k	1x 5k	2x 5k
	1x 30k cycle	1x 30k cycle
		1x 10k

Each phase is 3 weeks on and 1 week off for recovery (Off doesn't mean no training at all.). The last few weeks will be tough and pretty much train, eat, work, train, eat, sleep. Day in, day out. 

That's the big master plan

Right then! Let's do this!!! The next big adventure is waiting. It's going to be hard work over the next 12 weeks and I will be a bit off the grid towards the end, spending countless hours exercising. Can't say I'm not looking forward to it though. The first phase is not much different from what I'm doing already.
I'm sure it'll be worth it in the end and give me a better chance of making it all the way to the top! Bring on Aconcagua!