09-15-2017, 09:12 PM
No clear cut answer on this, as it has a lot to do with "know thyself". But I'll at least add my experience. If I start over reaching, I almost ALWAYS go right into an intensive cruise. There has been a few times I've extended a blast mostly due to schedule or time (I have a vacation coming up, etc). My personal experience is that once my CNS goes, just about everything goes with it, and it's hard to bounce back. On top of that, my feeling is always one of sort of, what is the hurt in cruising? Your cruise length is equal to your blast length, longer blast, longer cruise, shorter blast, shorter cruise. So over a year, if you either blast 4 weeks, or 6 weeks, the overall amount of actual "blast training time" is pretty much equal. No point in pushing beyond what makes sense.
Just my 2 cents.
Just my 2 cents.