Mine is very much up in the air, I don’t even know if I’ll be able to race at all next year. I’m already registered for Ironman 70.3 St. George and Ironman 70.3 Coeur d’Alene, but I have the Flex90 benefit so if I can’t race hopefully I’ll have enough advance notice to get refunds for either or both. Beyond those two, I’d like to race Ironman 70.3 Boise since it’s close, and maybe do Ironman 70.3 Washington Tri-Cities again, but I need to play it by ear so I’m going to book just the hotels and wait until the last possible moment to register for races.
Honestly if I can do even one race next year, I’ll call it a win.
I was considering a full finally since I’ll be 45 but only wanted to do it if my dad was too. Partially for logistics partially so we could do one together. But he wants to do one (his second) when he turns 70… in 2026.
After my partner crashed the week before our last 70.3 I said she had first dibs on picking a race for 2025 and if she wanted to do Musselman that she missed I would just spectate but she’s still put off getting back on the bike.
So probably taking 2025 off from tri but might try for a slot in an OWS event (currently not swimming), finally do a century, maybe knock out a fall marathon I didn’t finish years ago (fell)
I’ve been doing high volume tri plans (switching between full-distance and half-distance as needed) for the past couple of years and it’s worked well for me so far, so I’m probably going to start a new HV/HD one in January. I do find the running workouts a little repetitive, especially in winter when I’m exclusively on a treadmill, so I’ve been trying Runna this fall to see if it’s worthwhile to do the cycling workouts from TR’s tri plans and the running workouts from Runna’s tri plans, but I’m not sold on it so I might just stick with TR for the whole plan.
I started the HIM plan. But because I am newbie maybe I can try the new custom plans just for cycling and do 4 runs and 3 swims weekly with own planning. Because I am not yet there for intensity in running. And this way I can test the new custom plans?
10-18? Do you add volume then in those plans because do not seen 18h a week in the high volume plans?
I’ve placed around with the Custom bike plans, it always wants me to only have three bike days, hard 3.5-4hrs 300ish TSS and maximum those plans will offer is 8hrs and 420TSS.
The HV tri plans put in more so I’ll go with them and take it month by month. I don’t like the 4/4/4 distribution by discipline.
Have had a long hard look at my commute rides, and the routes…I don’t think there’s a way to make them effective training so I’m going to try reducing the time at threshold and above…and get there slower
I am signed up for my first 70.3 in June, and I currently have the half distance plan on my TR calendar. What is interesting is that I did a slightly longer sweet spot workout 2 days ago that triggered a yellow day yesterday. Adaptive training suggested that I changed my regularly scheduled run and swim to be a recovery run and recovery swim.
So to what degree are the tr full in half distance plans now customizable and adaptive?
Funnily enough I’ve just emailed TR support on this, as I’m not sure. Will post the response.
I’m sure we don’t get workouts recommended based on our training history yet. Not sure if anything else is “missing”. Some people are concerned that Custom Plans don’t show a progression in length to an event, so this may not be a bad thing entirely.
I am also on the HIM plan and it constant adapts according to my workouts done (or not). So it seems customizable and adaptive to me? But maybe wait for @JoeX response from TR? Because for me (I don’t follow the run and swim workouts as proposed from the plan) it is not sure if I follow the HIM plan or just a normal bike plan (and just schedule my run and swim workouts around this one).
Having a general triathlon thread for 2025 sounds good to me; the short course thread isn’t so busy that it’ll add a lot of volume to this one, might as well merge them at this point.
That said, I think I’ll need to ask someone else to take over the new thread, I’m really not sure how much I’ll be able to train and race this year so I may need to take a step back from triathlon.
My cycling workouts seem as adaptive as the ones on any of the other TR plans, but the runs and swim adaptations are fairly rudimentary in comparison: if you miss a workout, most times it’ll simply push the runs forward and that’s it, which sometimes leaves the whole plan misaligned. For this year, I’ve been thinking of setting up a TR high volume half distance plan but only follow the cycling workouts, and try doing a Runna half-distance plan for the runs just for some variety and to see how it shakes out.
(The swims… well, it is what it is. It’s tough to make any swimming plan work with limited pool time so I’ll just have to make do.)
I DID use the Plan Builder to set mine up, and I am concerned that my ride durations don’t show any progression. Nothing longer than 1h30m, even in the ramp up towards the event.
There has been a suggestion by some that the duration will get increase by the time you actually get to when they are scheduled, however I don’t think anyone really knows. Hopefully JoeX well receive some confirmation.
It would be nice to see an indication of what might be coming upfront even if it adapts longer or shorter when you actually get there.
I dont think it matters too much, you could pencil in, add a note in the calendar, where you want you peak duration to be before your taper and work backwards and start picking a workout alternative maybe plus 15 minutes per week longer to build to the peak.
Example
Note: Pick Alternative Peak 2h30
Note week-1: Pick Alternative 2hr15
Note week-2: Pick Alternative 2hr
Note week-3: Pick Alternative 1hr45
Hope I’ve explained that well enough. My example is irrelevant if it automatically does something similar when one gets there.
