must be nice to have that warm water!!! all my races seem to border on being too cold for a normal wetsuit… current water temp at my local reservoir is hovering around 6-7 degrees C on a good day
I’m looking to start training for my IM 2021 event and was thinking that I might also start logging all of my swim, bike, run sessions into a spreadsheet. I know that TR provides plenty of analysis but until the data is imported automatically from strava I think I’d also like to use a spreadsheet. I’ve seen someone on here posting photos of their spreadsheet ( @WildWill ) I think.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be kind enough to send me a copy of their spreadsheet so that I could use it. I’m a complete knuckle head at setting them up.
Many thanks
George
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Signed up for IM Hamburg 2021. Today marked the first ‘official’ day of the training plan after a 4 week offseason and a pre-plan 4 week block of just training for fun. Started the new block off by turning myself inside out on a 20’ FTP ‘assessment’ and saw some big gains. Up 13% from 312w (tested 6th Sept, right before offseason) to 336w and north of 4.5 w/kg. Cutting back down to a sensible weight after a fun but gluttonous few months.
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I just keep it simple, these are my columns:
Week# ,Week Commencing ,Plan/Race Week, Bike TSS, Run TSS, Swim TSS, Lift TSS, Total Hours, Avg TSS Bike
Swim TSS is often replaced by Distance in previous years
I sometimes run a seperate run spreadsheet that tracks distance
2021 Im aiming to use TrainingPeaks free edition
Okay I think my off season may be over, had a nice treadmill run today. And I need some structure back in my life.
So what are people aiming for next year?
I have London Olympic beginning go August, IM Barcelona in October.
I’m just doing lifting and running at the moment. Can’t really decide how to train winter/spring, probably should have a run focus as it’s my weakest discipline but my heart longs for 300W on the bike!
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I am aiming at a 10k in spring (goal of 37 min) and a 5k (goal of 17:30).
Then I will switch gears to bike focus again and hopefully FINALLY try a HIM in Sept/Oct (Augusta or NC)
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can’t help but feel like my next swim is always going to be my last for awhile…
lockdown is coming! Stay safe everyone. Dont risk your health for off-season workouts.
(now someone tell me that too)
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I keep playing with my plan and can’t settle on a goal event. I need a goal event to keep me honest.
I really can’t see me taking my Copenhagen IM deferral up next year. Currently planning on a serious crack at an Oly or two and then pushing on for an IM in ‘22.
Also just dropping some trad base for a few months into my plan to enable a less stressful return to running, which has been seriously neglected for a few months. Probably start with MAF runs which really had me running quicker than I’ve ever done earlier this year. 
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I’ve started reading the Triathlon Bible again, pencilled in my season goals, now looking at the training objectives
…then I saw the annual hours graph. Good grief. He’s expecting me to put in 20hrs/week or Im in the “just finish” category!
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I was under the impression that 20 hours is the min you want to put into an Ironman… (10-12 for half)
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Not at all, a peak week or two maybe. Not annual average.
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Interesting. Most of the people I know who train for IM do a min of 18 hours, but have weeks of 20+ hrs.
IDK. I do not intent to find out any time soon if i need 20 hours or not. That sounds like a part time to me.
My target will be 70.3 worlds in StG, assuming it will take place and that I can go there. Not sure how I can manage proper 70.3 training now that I’ve got to work again properly, but I’ll manage somehow.
Beside StG it’ll only be fun and prep events. A local HIM leading up to the race, maybe a MTB marathon in spring. I’d also love to do a proper half marathon in spring or early summer and have an entry deferred from this year. I am just not sure yet, how bad the impact on my tri training would be when I try to PR in late April.
Also, looking at the new speedmax: What do people think is the impact of having only one kidney on triathlon training?
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One way to look at it could be the weight lost from kidney removal may help offset some of the weight gained on the new CF
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Look at the companion book " Your Best Triathlon" : A much better book to get what you need.
I am doing repeats of Base 1 a the moments - as I am quite far out - and I am comfortably averaging 12-13hrs per week.
Last week was a bit of a bike focus week (still base) and I did close to 15hrs with no swimming - and I still had 2 full days off (Saturday and Sunday)
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George - PM me you email and I will send you a copy of my Spreadsheet
Will
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@JoeX
The book I mentioned above has the following time ranges for the phases (recovery weeks in brackets)
PREP: 10:45 - 14:00 (10:00 - 12:45)
BASE1: 11:30 - 19:45 (8:15 - 11:15)
BASE2: 11:45 - 21:00 (9:45 - 13:45)
BASE3: 12:45 - 25:35 (11:45 - 14:45)
BUILD1: 15:45 - 23:50 (12:50 - 14:30)
BUILD2: 15:45 - 24:50 (12:50 - 14:30)
PEEK WK1: 11:30 - 17:20
PEEK WK2 11:10- 16:10
I think I will aim for somewhere in the middle of those ranges.
If you consider thought, As this plan builds, your long ride could be 6hrs and your long run 3hrs, that is quite a large percentage of the weeks targest,
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Yeah, Im not really onboard with the really long sessions anymore. I’ll plan
a couple of four hour TR sessions at most, 3hrs is more my staple, mostly because they dont get done. Running, I dont think theres value in 3h runs, so Ill be looking for 1h45-2h for most of the year as my long run.
All debatable of course.
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This is purely from my point of view - And everyone is different, but:
My best IM have all been following a JF type training plan
My only DNF was from following TR plan
I have also found plans on BeginnerTriathlete Work quite well for me
Other not so good (for me) was fink
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