Another one from the casebooks.Paul Kennedy: My friend Steve and I have been training to enter the Portsmouth, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and Nottingham IRCs for 2,000m this Autumn and Winter. We have only entered one race before but have seriously caught the indoor rowing bug. As we approach the Portsmouth Grand Prix, we are training with the following schedule:Monday, 3 x 4 minutes followed by light weightsTuesday, 9 x 1 minute followed by body weight circuit (push-ups, crunches, free squats etc)Wednesday, heavy weights (leg press, bench press, bent row and shoulder press)Thursday, 3 x 6 minutes followed by muscle flushing body weight circuitFriday, 6 x 2 minutes followed by 9 x 30 second hill sprints.Saturday and Sunday, we rest thank goodness.We will have a taper week before the competition, but what we want to know, is how to train in between the once a month competitions we have set ourselves. We want to continue to improve but also want to be fully recovered before each race.Terry O'Neill: The principle you have to adopt in a situation where you are racing over a season is that you pick one or two where you will concentrate your efforts and the others become part of the training programme. This means that you would only taper for these main events and not the rest.Your training programme looks pretty good, lots of variety and the weekends off are a safeguard against over-training (it is quite intense); that's not a bad thing but one thing you have to watch with prolonged high intensity programmes is that you become stale. High intensity work brings about the most rapid improvement in the shortest time. However this is based on your current aerobic capacity and to move on you need a period where the work is aimed at further increases in the aerobic base.