The newbie bumpable thread (Page 5)

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Bump!

Bump.  I tried looking for this in the article section but did not find it.  There seen to be a lot of new people to the sport this time of the year ( as I was last year) and there is a wealth of information in the thread. I thought I would dig it up from the lost posts that are buried on the back  pages.  Thanks once again Lu ( trilover), even the second time around it's a great read.

 Mike

Hi Kevin-

Sounds like you are looking to long-course races as your primary goal.  With that in mind I would suggest you pick up the book Going Long by Friel & Byrn.  While the Triathletes Training Bible is extremely useful as a reference, it's more of a text book.  Going Long is more of a practicle guide that I think will help you plan your weekly workouts.  You might also check out the book Training Plans for Multisport Athletes by Gale Bernhardt.  Gale provides complete training plans for all distances complete with specific daily workouts from day 1 through taper and race.  I'm not necessarily suggesting you simply adopt one of these training plans but you will get to see how a very experiences triathlete and coach would lay out weekly training and arrange specific workouts.  It's helpful to see some examples and then take what you've learned to finish building your own plan.  You could also take one of these plans as a starting point to spovide the appropriate structure and then re-work some of th specifics around your personal needs. 

There are lots of helpful folks here on BT so feel free to ask questions. One other option you might consider is going with a gold membership which gives you access to D3 Multisport coaches who will help you work through specific issues you might be having with yout training.  I think it's a fantastic investment and extremely inexpensive considering what you get out of it.  Good luck with your training and racing! 

I see we are starting around the circle with some of the questions again and thought this thread might help.

Ernie 

sweet thread

bump

.....and bump.

'Tis the seaon.