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Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts
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 2014-11-14 12:49 PM |
Veteran  299   Ferndale |  Subject: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughtsHello everyone. I am planning on my first 70.3 distance next year, the race I have picked is Half Rev Cedar Point, September 13th 2015. Already obsessing about the training..... Little background on me... I started doing Triathlons in 2009 mostly sprints, one Olympic Typically 2-3 races a year with 5k, 10k running races, and mountain bike races mixed in for fun. I did no triathlons in 2014 but did two half marathons and few 5k races (5K PR got me 2nd in my AG!!!), both half marathons I finished around 2:05 - 2:10... I want to focus on my swimming and biking over the winter. I saw a swim workout called the guppies challenge from Slow Twitch in another thread (LINK Page 2) and downloaded it in hopes to use it over the next 10 or so weeks. I am also thinking of doing the Winter Cycling program at the same time to improve my cycling. I also plan on running a little throughout the winter as well. I plan on using the free 20 Week Beginner Half Plan starting in April 2015. So now to the questions... 1. Am I biting of more than I can chew with the swim and bike training plans? Should I just try to improve 1 discipline? 2. My goal is to finish in under 6 hours. Would I be better off buying a membership to get access to different plans? 3. I have a spring (March) half marathon on my radar. Would it be smart to do this before starting my training to get a good idea of where I am at running wise? 4. Would it be a smart idea to to an Olympic around July to judge fitness and just for fun? Thanks in advance!!!
Chris
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| 2014-11-14 2:03 PM in reply to: caffer |
Expert 2192 Greenville, SC | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts all sound good. i think with the fitness you are going into your plan with in April though you could do better than the beginner plan. especially since you've been doing SBR to some extent since 2009. early August might be better for the Oly |
| 2014-11-15 9:34 PM in reply to: Clempson |
Veteran 299 Ferndale | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts Thanks!! So an Oly about a month before it not to close? Plans are down on paper, now the fun begins!! |
| 2014-11-17 9:44 AM in reply to: caffer |
754 | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts I might try those swim workouts that you linked to. After the season ended, I just couldn't drag myself to the pool for a while. I am a slow swimmer, and really needed a break. I have decided to start back Thanksgiving week. Those will be good workouts for me to start with. I am also planning on doing my first half next year after 2 years of Olys and sprints. I signed up for Musselman. I figure that once I signed up, I couldn't back out. I am much less likely to skip a workout if I have a goal, even if that goal is 10 months away. |
| 2014-11-17 3:30 PM in reply to: happyscientist |
Veteran 299 Ferndale | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts I am starting them tonight, I will post up tomorrow about how it goes. This will be the first time I actually follow a plan instead of just swimming laps in the pool. Good luck on the training for Mussleman!! |
| 2014-11-17 4:22 PM in reply to: caffer |
| 64 | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts Since the BT beginner plan wouldn't have you starting until april, you could probably try and do an early season (May/June) Olympic Tri and follow an olympic plan for that.. that would help have some planning for your early season workouts.. Personally I would completely slack off all winter unless I had early season races.. while they may not be PR races.. they still give me something to work towards. |
| 2014-11-17 4:49 PM in reply to: caffer |
Master 2855 Kailua, Hawaii | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts My thoughts on your questions.. 1. I think your idea of improving bike fitness and swimming over the winter sounds good. But you will be "training" for the March HM most likely starting early Jan, so I would back off a bit on the swim/bike effort to focus on the run. 2. As for the 6 hr goal in the Sept HIM, you are going to have to work to accomplish this I think. Your race log suggests that you would "just" make the 6 hr mark under ideal circumstances. HIM usually doesn't translate to 2 x Oly time, it most likely will be slower, so you might want a bit more intensity in your training than a beginner plan. 3. As for the HM, it will be completely separate from your HIM training, so just treat it as such. You will be ahead of the HIM training for the run fitness obviously, but I wouldn't try to maintain that once you start the HIM plan. 4. The Oly idea is probably ok, it will help break up the monotony of the training, but it's not necessary IMO. Remember when you break from your training to race, there is a recovery period to get back where you were. Oly should not be much recovery, other than 2-3 days. |
| 2014-11-19 11:57 AM in reply to: metafizx |
Veteran 299 Ferndale | Subject: RE: Off season and recommendations & 2015 race thoughts Thank you for all the responses! Metafizx: 1. Yea I was thinking the same thing about the spring HM. I really want to improve the swim and bike, maybe I'll just run a couple of days a week to keep it up. Maybe that HM is not in the cards for me. 2. 5:59:59 is good enough for me... I think I will up my membership so that I can get access to different plans. I understand there are many things that can happen during training or a race that are outside my control. 3. Got it! 4. Yea, I was just thinking it would be fun to break up the training and kind of see the state of affairs. Good thing I have 9 months to think about that!!!
Also, I did week 1 workout 1 of the swim plan the other day. I thought it was fun, in fact, I learned two things. Dolphin kicking is hard if you have never purposely had to do it. I armed swimming is even harder than dolphin kicking... Thanks again everyone!!!!
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