The Ironman Training 2021 Thread

What plan did you have before?
Did you moved stuff around when creating the plan?

I know when I added the half distance plan, i moved one swim to Mondays… I think the plan had one day of doing the 3, but I don’t have time to swim during the weekends…so that’s not happening…

You can always cut the bike…like do the 4hr Saturday and 50 min run,.and on Sunday do a 2hr ride and 2 hr run…

Nah… They claimed that they revise the runs.after the plan changes, and they were ok with them… So who knows…

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Honest response, if you want to do well at triathlon there are some sacrifices you are going to have to make, you can’t get to 15 hours of training per week without making life changes.

Many actual triathletes do doubles or triples most days of the week in order to get up to that kind of volume. The intensity of those workouts is quite low though so the biggest challenge is finding the time, more so than being able to complete the workouts.

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And you can’t do 15hr training weeks without dedicating quite a few extra hours to recovery.

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Btw @JoeX since you did include me in the roll call, I’d say i had a pretty decent month of training tge last block. Still not hitting great volume numbers as I’ve put tri training down a few notches since covid but very happy with where i am in relation to where i want to be next year.

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I agree, after getting over the shock of a 12 hr weekend + the 5 odd hrs in the week I will do some jiggling around and drop the Saturday bike totally and move the Swim/Run portion to the Saturday.

I apologise for “going off on one” but it was **** me moment when the plan updated :slight_smile:

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Yeah I’m doing triple days mon,tue,thu,fri and a double on weds so that I can get my weekend free.

But most weeks I push a workout back into the weekend, if I’m honest.

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Any manual modifications to your workouts takes them “out of plan”, so when you update to the new plan you will see duplicates.

I deleted my existing plan, then went through the calendar deleting anything remaining, then created a new plan.

Ive decided not to move or edit any of the planned workouts at all unless I use the Plan Builder to update them.

Adaptive training doesn’t have a say in when you train - that’s our decision in the Plan Builder. It only adapts the scheduled workout itself.

Ahhh, that may explain it, we have open water with my Tri club on the Saturday shifted stuff around when the plan was originally created.

As for triple days, they are quite rare for me have to say.

It’s Race Week and the weather in Tulsa looks to be unpredictible.
Feeling as ready as I can be I think… Fly out thursday morning.

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Wow the weather for OK looks crazy for the week - just saw Talbot on IG posting pictures of tornados

Hope you get to race, and stay safe!
Mike

One crazy cold race… one with tornados!

Great way to start the season

I’d maybe run a 60mm front instead of the 90mm in tornado conditions :stuck_out_tongue:

Hope the weather sorts itself out and everybody gets to race!

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PR’d my bike split at gulf coast on Saturday by 3 min. Swim was hard with the constant rolling waves. It was making me dizzy in the water. And off a 3 min PR I ran a steady and respectable 1:52 HM. I started jogging in February after taking off 8mo last year and getting fat, so 1:52 is about the best case scenario I could have hoped for.

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A good read about a olympian triathlete champion and her illness…

Lost a leg, multiple blood infection, but she still trains hard…

“Paralympic Gold Medalist Allysa Seely Is Done Hiding Her Chronic Illness” https://www-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/paralympic-gold-medalist-allysa-seely-200700049.html?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a6&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16213372836604&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Fparalympic-gold-medalist-allysa-seely-200700049.html

I am so ready to crush this Tulsa course. I can’t remember the last time I have felt this sharp. Short swim and tempo run today. Felt like I could pr my 1k swim and 5k run. Saving it for Sunday

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what’s the forecast?

I remember you are targeting a fast time, what are you planning for your splits?

Best of luck, have a great race!

I got the email today saying I qualified for St. George 70.3 championship. I was gonna take a little break but I guess it’s back to the grind! Lol.

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1:05 swim
4:40 bike (best bike split showed 4:25 but I don’t believe it)
3:10 marathon
Maybe add 10 min somewhere?

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Sub 9… respect. Would absolutely love to go sub 10 someday