Hi all, new to TR and am using it to prepare for an Olympic Distance Triathlon. I have reached the speciality phase and am a little concerned with the frequency of ‘hard’ work out sessions.
For reference it seems to be scheduling the next 3 weeks as follows:
Monday: off
Tuesday: Vo2 Max Bike
Wednesday: 5x3min (5km Pace) Run
Thursday: Threshold Bike
Friday: 25min at HM pace Run
Saturday: Threshold Bike
Sunday: Long Run
There is also 3 swims in there, but I usually just swim with my local Masters squad.
I am wondering if I have set something up wrong? I selected ‘mid volume’ when starting out.
Yes 16 weeks of base, which built up to 3 bike workouts (2xVo2, 1x Threshold) plus an interval run. I managed to complete all the workouts (bar a few I had to adapt whilst on holiday).
I guess my concern was just the 5 back to back ‘hard workouts’
Previous training plans I have followed a more Hard, Easy, Hard, Easy, Long ride/run format. So just wanted to make sure I hadn’t set this up wrong.
More than willing to give it ago, but just not use to this format.
I hope this isn’t too much of a tangent, but I actually had a related question about back to back days.
Let’s say you have a VO2 workout and a Threshold workout and have to do them back to back because of life. Would you guys do VO2 then Threshold, or Threshold then VO2? I feel like if I do Threshold first, the VO2 might suffer a bit because I might not have the legs to get my cardiovascular system up to VO2. Whereas doing VO2 first, I can grind myself through a Threshold workout.
For me, it would absolutely be vo2, then threshold. I need reasonably fresh legs for quality vo2 work.
On a related note, I’ve been experimenting a bit this year going into a few interval days carrying heavy fatigue. It was an approach I heard some coaches talking about on a podcast. I didn’t do back to back interval days, but loaded up big training stress before my 2nd interval day with extra Z2 work (going into Thursday intervals with 600-700tss in the legs). I’ve done it 3 times this year and the 2nd interval day was always over/unders or threshold. The first couple times workouts felt hard, but good and recovery felt good. Last week I had to go really, really deep and it was probably a mistake and left me feeling bad for a couple days (poor sleep, really dead legs). It’s hard to know if that workout did more harm than good after some proper recovery, but I’m going to say it wasn’t a good idea. Probably would have been perfect if I had quit 2/3 of the way through. Intervals tomorrow, will be interesting to see if the body has bounced back.