We worked up to 7 or 8 even in HS since we had a pool, 2-3 am sessions and 5 afternoon.
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Well that’s been a really great read for the last 30 mins getting my head around all this and probably forgetting it all by the morning. As I’ve mentioned before, I was treated to the 50m International pool before the pandemic but it’s been dissected into many 25m lengths. To begin with, 50 min booked slots seemed restrictive. However, I pay a monthly subscription since June 2020. I can now book back to back sessions, choose my start time and swim through the 10 mins, a double session that is common.
I’m careful to do this only if it’s not booked to capacity as it would be inconsiderate. In short, the whole booking on an app thing has been a great improvement in capacity driven by ironically by the pandemic.
The whole regular, shorter swims over long sessions theory makes sense to me. When I raced TT’s, the two biggest changes were to use the turbo more and ride every day, regularity was key, the body learned it had to recover quickly.
My 400/200 test I know was compromised trying too hard and compromising my technique. I’ll be sure I’m not crossing my centre line at the moment so I’m more stable in the water. It feels better but I’m not seeing speed changes yet. I’m considering concentrating on technique on one day and steady effort the next.
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This is what I’m trying out, it seems like a good approach.
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Gulf coast Joel! Make it happen, much nicer 
Join a Master’s program, that’s what I did when I started tri. Coach had me jump in and swim across the pool and back. When I got back to the wall, I was gassed. Hell, I thought I might have to stop during the lap. Next, he asked why I was there 
Then, he told me to come at least 3d/wk. 1mo later, he finally gave me workout. 3mo later, I was swimming 5d/wk 3000-3500m in an hour. It was exhausting when I started. It was exhausting 3mo later, but I was going faster and longer.
Coach and group training environment were huge for me. I could have never done that on my own like I can with running or cycling. It’s such a different beast.
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I was in a master group in 2020…but they change the times and now it’s not at times I can go…
Also i heard the group grew quite a lot and the pool is quite small… So they are swimming 4 and 5 per Lane…not fast enough for that
That is so painfully true. On my Thursday swim I usually have the lane next to a junior team and boy do those girls kick my ass. In comparison it is worse than going out with the hammerheads on a Friday drop ride 
Thank you for this. It is very encouraging and re-assuring to hear. Hoping I’ll be able to stay consistent with my current frequency.
I see a pattern forming here and I like it. 
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August I have Ironman Canada, assuming it doesn’t get deferred for the 3rd time lol.
In the leadup I have 2 halfs, Oliver half in june and Victoria half in july. basically all should be about 6 weeks apart from each other.
Both are smaller local events.
MAYBE a sprint first weekend of may if it happens 
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I’m doing short course only this 2022 season (except for a 10-60-10 duathlon), but I just wanted to make a point that matters to the world: Nate Pearson and Tim O’Donnell have identical voices.
Cheers.
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All this talk about swimming frequency has been making me really jealous!
While there are lots of great things about spending the winter XC skiing, it means I’m getting in maybe 1 or 2 swims a week, 2 or 3 bikes, and maybe only 2 or 3 runs in any given week. Triathlon is hard enough with 3 sports, throwing in a 4th really makes the math hard, lol.
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10 miles?!
This sounds way more panful than a 70.3
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managing 3 is super hard…
I am down to 2 rides per week (1 wo, 1 long - 2+ hrs - z2 ride) and 2 swims (2200-3200y each), but I am running 5 times a week, including 1 OTB run (after the long ride) and one MLR (after the bike wo)
In a few week we will be adding a shorter swim but continuous, instead of the usual Mondays off. I just realized I am hitting between 8:30 and 9:30 hr a week, with one day off. Back when I was just running every day I was doing about the same time with no time off (except for injuries).
Waking up at 4:30 everyday sucks tho.
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Nah man, we’ve got the metric system, we wouldn’t know what the f__k “10 miles” is.
It’s 10k-60k-10k. The runs combined are a little short of a half marathon. Painful but, unfortunately, manageable.
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I can’t think in imperial in the pool, on the bike, imperial not metric & on foot, metric rules my brain.
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I have this exact schedule on my TR calendar right now. I haven’t signed up for the Oliver race yet though (not that it’s open yet)–good to see its actually coming back as I pencilled it in well before Dynamic Race Events came out of hibernation and confirmed it. Unsure if I’ll end up doing it or not since three trips out to BC from Sask is a lot, especially if gas is $1.77/L!
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Born and raised in 'Murica and I am a 193cm 85kg triathlete that uses the metric system (almost) exclusively. It just makes the math so much easier for our sport to be honest. If I’m running 5:00/km that’s a 25min 5k pace. Easy. 8:00/mi is 8min times 3.1something which comes to 24 plus 8 times .1something but need to convert that seconds down so…24:something_big or 25:something_small.
All our races, and most legs aside from some swims are easier to do pacing math in metric as well.
750m vs 0.45mi? - Metric wins
1500m vs 0.91mi? - Metric wins
1930m vs 1.2mi - Imperial just edges
3860m vs 2.4mi - Imperial just edges
20km vs 12.4mi - Metric wins
40km vs 24.9mi - Metric wins
90km vs 56mi - Metric wins
180km vs 112mi - Metric wins
5km vs 3.1something mi- Metric wins
10km vs 6.2something mi- Metric wins
21.1km vs 13.1mi - Wash
42.2km vs 26.2mi - Wash
The only time I use imperial is in the pool because, well I’m not going to be doing 5x91m
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Except @JoeX (I think) that uses a 33m pool and does 5 x 99m 
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I signed up for both Oliver and IMC before covid, so I’m on a 3 year training block for both, hahaha
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It’s so annoying.
But it’s nice to have a pool longer than 25m.
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As someone who just really enjoys sports in general, I’m not sure whether triathlon is a good or a bad thing. On one hand I get to do 3 sports on the regular, on the other hand I have no room to do anything else because I’m doing 3 sports on the regular. Where does rugby season go? Why is long ride day the same as long sail day? How about cheesy Zumba workouts?
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