You’ve done the training and if not, you can’t do anything about it now. Just think nutrition and kit.
Good luck
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That’s all my long distances done for this year.
Lakesman Half 2023 is the big one for next year now and actually going to put some effort into running instead of just blagging it.
However really looking forward to the next 3 months before training starts again and just enjoying cycling and hitting the train now button and reducing it to 30mins with zero guilt 
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Thanks Joe, and congrats to everyone who raced this month!
Pretty much back to my normal training load after a few rough months and happy to say things have been pretty solid. Still a ways to go fitness-wise but I’m feeling good and the numbers are bouncing back.
Headed into duathlon season this weekend which will be my first time racing in our local elite field. Small fish in a big pond 
Also! After a bit of a war the driver’s insurance finally paid out for my crash and let’s just say I’ve traded up lol. Apparently after all the shortages the only available TT bike in Aus was about 3x the price of my sketchy old Canyon… and conveniently in my size. It is a good day to be an XS. Going to feel ridiculous on that thing.
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Thanks, Joe.
June was a whirlwind.
First few weeks were great. Completed a mock 70.3+ (full distance triathlon swim, 3hr bike, 23km run) all with limited breaks in between. Everything went to plan.
Second week, banked up a load of training before travel to a conference.
Whilst away, I managed two 10km runs… Then the inevitable positive COVID test came, which led to two weeks of z1/z2 bikes, lots of walking and a few easy runs. My symptoms were relatively mild (thankfully) but the biggest impact was on my confidence given I have Outlaw Nottingham in two weeks time. Having to remind myself that I’ve done plenty of work over the past 10 months so at this point I have way more to lose than gain by pushing too hard. Final weekend of training before my final ‘prep’ stage… Luckily my legs already feel pretty fresh - maybe there’s something in the phased taper approach!
Looking forward to getting out there and having fun!
Happy training all!
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My training has been derailed the last month. 3 weekends in a row traveling to visit family will do that. I am hoping the fitness I built in the spring will help carry me through this past month and I can pick back up this week. I mostly used TrainNow this last month and enjoyed it.
However, the suggested workout on Tuesday destroyed me! I came back from a 5 day weekend with no workouts. TrainNow suggested a hard start threshold workout +1 above my current level. The workout pinned my heart rate almost at max for a good part of the 13 minute intervals. Once I fully recover from that workout I will be looking forward to 70.3 Wisconsin in September.
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Thanks for the check in Joe.
Well I wish I had put more than 6 weeks between 70.3 races. After a big PR at Eagleman 3.5 weeks ago, I had a really hard time recovering and getting back to training with Ohio 70.3 approaching.
Week 1 - purposely took it really easy.
Week 2 - tried to get back to it, but was super drained in all sessions.
Week 3 - caught an injury that derailed everything for a few days.
Week 4 - finally back to normal.
So my plan is to get 2 really solid weeks of no missed sessions (week 4 and 5) and then just taper a little during race week. I think I have enough banked fitness that if I can just get in 3 weeks of consistency I think I’ll be feeling pretty good for race day. … I hope
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I developed a hamstring issue the week before Eagleman, it did not affect the swim of the bike but added about 25 minutes to my run. I did not run the rest of the month. Saturday 10 minute run of the bike, no issues. Sunday 30 minute run, no issues. Tuesday 45 minute easy run 97 degress 8:10 pace and could have gone faster. As I was running I thought to myself the five years ago this would have been a fast run. I looked back in TrainingPeaks and low and behold July 5, 2017 43 minute run at 8:28.
So time to build my run up again and shoot for a sub 5 at Agusta.
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First time poster. Signed up for TrainerRoad to build for my first 70.3 (IM70.3 AZ) in October. First triathlon was earlier this year, then completed an Oly distance, and immediately signed up for the 70.3 and TrainerRoad. Seeing amazing gains so far and beginning to test nutrition strategies.
Cheers!
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So it was effectively a VO2max workout?
Very much so! My Garmin agreed and told me that the workout “highly impacted my VO2max”.
Outstanding.
(I’ve corrected my username list)
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Good luck for tomorrow at Muskoka.
Not a great start of the summer.
After finally starting to feel great running i got hit with a head cold or something at some point in early may, and that cause everything to start spiral out of control. My hr was out of whack during my rides and couldn’t hit the power targets… Then we traveled for vacation but i got what’s is commonly known as walking pneumonia (or bacterial pneumonia). It really kicked my ass badly. I was out of it for no less than 3 days and i couldn’t do much running during the vacations. The longest i ran was 6 miles where my hr was high 160s @ 9 mpm. Terrible.
Then back to Florida. Where summer is hitting us badly. Everyday the dew point is above 75. When the dew point is above 75 some experts recommend not to run outdoors or at minimum heavily modify the run.
Last Saturday the dew point was 80 at 7 am. My 11 miles run were a shit show, then that translated to a shit show on the long ride the next day where i was absolutely incapable of keeping the power in the tempo/SS range with a cadence of 85. I stop at 2,5hr instead of the 3 hrs I was supposed to do. Absolutely terrible.
We are making adjustments. Will start doing more stuff at the TM at least while i get some of the fitness back. We started last week and did a Wo at the gym TM ( 1% incline (1600,1200,800,400) and it felt great. Settled for 7 mpm just to be safe, and it was actually easier that I thought.
Will see if using the TM gives me a bit of confidence back
Thanks, Joe. I’m scheduled to do Oregon 70.3 tomorrow. Not sure what to expect since I’ve been in Oregon for a week playing tourist— lots of hiking and outdoor sports, but not a lot of rest.
After IMTX back in April I took two weeks off completely and then went back to structured training. I struggled with motivation at times but was able to average just under 12.5 hours/ week for 8 weeks.
I did a small Olympic distance race about a month ago that went well. I won my age group and was 9th overall (of 145). I did it in 2:07+. (The bike was a mile short of standard distance and the swim probably 150 yards short). I didn’t feel super motivated for that race but got into it once I was out there. I’m feeling a bit lazy today so I’m hoping tomorrow will be the same— that my competitive juices will start flowing once I’m on course.
Oregon, by the way, is amazing. It’s an endurance athlete’s paradise. Why do I live in Chicago? That’s what I keep asking myself.
I’m really looking forward to the entirely downstream swim in the Willamette River tomorrow. I did a practice swim in the Deschutes in Bend and just flew. 1:04/ 100 yards and I was barely working- it was so fun!
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Well we do it cos we like it so, if you’re not liking it there’s no pressure to do it.
I’m putting a lot of pressure on myself but reality is that this year I have had too much else going on in my life for the training I planned to do. Stop. Regroup. Be realistic. Start again when you can.
Welcome to the thread, I’ve added you to the roll call.
All going well you’ll be lining up with @giventotri in October
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This thread has become super interesting since I left it a while ago.
But… are you guys trying to tell us that nobody here has raced Challenge Roth?
Good news is, my toes did not chafe at all thanks to vaseline i put on them at t1…
If you’re curious to see how the rest of it went, enjoy my race report
TL;DR it went relatively well until the run where i fell apart due to a fatal mistake without a contingency plan. But i finished. And i didn’t die
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Oh and i guess i gotta say kudos to Trainerroad. My bike training was 95% on the trainer (low volume, rolling road race) and the bike segment is what gave me the least trouble. I guess structured training does work after all 
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