"Train Smart Race Fast" 3 months challenge (Page 7)

Finished the week with my first Tri.

Here is the race report.

My leg is feeling much better with no pain in the shin. I learned that I must work on my open water swimming. Other than that, had a blast! speed improved on bike and running from previous performances.

BTW, I was able to get done in time below my 00:60:00 goal... So some things did go well

Jorge,

I plan on training smart from here on out! My #1 training goal is to spend more time in open water and get used to it so I can swim with proper form.

Besides this, is there any advice you can give me? I have about 6-7 weeks before then next sprint triathlon in this series. I'm heathly again (shin is healed) and ready to start back into work mode.

Week 13 Plan

T-Gator #1 Sprint Triathlon on Sunday (Done!)

2x swim (1x Moderate, 1x Speed) Actual 2x (1x as Moderate 30m and Speed 30m)
3x bike (1x Strenght, 1x Distance, 1x Moderate) Actual 3x (1x Strength 45m, 1x Distance 1h15m, 1x Moderate 1h5m)
3x run (1x Distance, 2x Moderate) Actual 5x (2xRecovery 40m & 1h, Distance 1h40m, 2x Moderate 50m & 60m)

This week went well as I finished my first tri, healed, and started increasing moderate run distance and bike time length

Week 14 Plan

Swim: 1x Distance
Bike: 1x Transition Brick
Run: 4x as 1x Brick, 2x Moderate 1x Distance

This week will be light on the bike and swim due to travel mid-week and on the weekend. I should be able to get a brick in Thursday.

 Hope everyone is healthy and benefiting from the training.

I'd say that I had a rough week, too.  Sorry you've been sick, Jorge; the Cambridge 5-miler was lovely yesterday if that's the race that you missed.  I just ran it at a steady 9:10 min/mile pace and was mostly happy with my finish time.

Lots ahead this week at work as well, so I'm just going to do what I can and try not to worry about the rest. 

C'est la vie...  -Sunny

Hey don't 12 weeks = 3 months???? Isn't the challenge over

I managed to get past some early season injuries by sticking pretty close to Jorge's advise. I am now combining the end of  Half Marry Plan  (race is 4/22) w/ the beginning of a  20 week HIM plan that will culminate at Timberman on 8/19.

While my 2007 mantra is "Train Smart, Race Fast" I will  be moving on from posting here. I wish you all the best for the season and would like to sincerely thank Jorge for taking the time to share all of his great advice. You will all be wise to continue to heed his advice, I will!

Thanks to you Jorge I am off to a great start. I'll see you at Timberman! 

Everyone-

I've missed updating everyone the last couple of weeks. I'm still up to keeping in touch past the 3 months using this thread.

Where am I?

I now have my own tri-bike and I started working on my Peak Phase training for a race May 20th, but hit health constraints this week. I developed a head&chest cold monday and it has side-lined me this week as I try to recover enough to participate in a 35mi bike road race tomorrow. I'm going to use this more as a moderate to tempo workout than an all out effort. I want to get a feel for the bike on the open road, but don't want to damage myself (35 mi would be a 10 mi increase from my longest ride).

Over the last week, I have put in some OWS to get comforable and I now have some working points to get  my swimming better. I've completed a bike LTHR test and a running time trial. I'm happy with both results.

I'm also hooked and planning for a HIM next March.

I'm doing the Athena Challenge now, so I'm moving on...

As for race results, none yet, but I have my first outing at a B race super-sprint swim, regular sprint bike + run on May 13th.  You'll be able to see how it goes in my RR's

Cheers, -Sunny