I signed up for my first triathlon, 70.3 Eagleman in Maryland. Looking froward to it!
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70.3 Chattanooga here!
Anyone have a good resource they have used for running improvement ie form and efficiency?
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If 3 swims per week didn’t work for you try something else. I might be a freak but I’ve done well on IM and HIM distances with an average of 1.5 swims per week. It also gives you more time to run and/or ride.
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Come join us in Muscat brother, we all need some sun in February! I just booked my flights, they’re still cheap and it seems that OmanAir is keeping up their deal to ship bikes for free.
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Think Outlaw X must be having an impact on Outlaw notts entries because it was loads easier to get a place this year
When everyone is doing running workouts do you use rpe, pace or power? Also how are you setting up your runs / targets during the week?
I am running 4 days a week now just building base and will be transitioning in a month or so to actual targets and wanted to get some ideas.
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I use heart rate zones
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I do a regular 5k time trial at my local running club. Then I just plug my time from that into the training pace calculator on the runnersworld website and use the pace they suggested for my tempo and easy/long runs.
Thanks. What do your runs look like weekly? @Simo429 and @AJBotha 4 total or more? I am thinking 1 LR, maybe 1 interval and 2 recovery?
Also on distance or time?
Is that for the Notts half? I didn’t realise it sold out so quick, glad I didn’t sit on the fence for too long
So I’m currently planning an early season IM. Does anyone have any tips for putting on your own home brewed “training” race to see where your fitness stands?
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Well, I got round to entering Ironman Vichy at the weekend 
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You not doing copenhagen?
It made it 24 hours of the main sale without selling out, that seems a long time this year
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I used to do one short easy brick, one very hard interval and one long, all by pace. Haven’t been improving this year and will try something different. 4-5 easy by HR and one very hard long run, thinking 15-20 with serious tempo efforts towards the end.
Thanks. I am starting to map out everything in the calendar. For the cycling workouts probably will do mostly traditional base.
No.
I’m back off to the heat and hills
Having listened to the podcast I think the advice is normally tradiational base is only really useful IF you can do HV
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Mental, did enjoy your race report though. I’m hoping Copenhagen is nice and cool
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So in training for last season I mapped RPE to my paces for various distances, iirc 4 marathon pace, 6 half, 8 10k, which kind of worked on the flat but I soon found that I rarely run on the flat and so many other things affect perceived exertion that pace alone wasn’t enough. I then added in HR which helped a bit, then I looked at graded average pace, but eventually I came to agree with Chad: it’s about how you feel.
After a while you know what a 6 feels like, and it doesn’t matter that it isn’t measured and quantified.
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