Well…no way back now. After my 70.3 this year, signed up for a full IM next year June ;-).
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Good luck…looking forward to reading your training leaning up to it!
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For me, September/October this year looking to be a blast.
- Sept 21: Fall 15K
- October 5: Portland Half Marathon
- October 11-12: Two cycling road races
- October 19: Intl Dist Triathlon
- October 26: IM NC 70.3
Hmm….maybe I should add the IM Florida 140.6 on November 1 just to make the “most epic month ever” for me lol!!!
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I just got my arm twisted* into doing Ironman California next year, which is not as far as I thought, just a mere 13-hour drive. Pretty stoked to take a another stab at a full.
* “Hey we’re doing Ironman California next year, wanna come?” “Yes.”
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Hey all - I haven’t done a full or half since 2022 when I completed Ironman Des Moines.
I am back this year training for Ironman Wisconsin in a few weeks. With all of the hills how do you target what power to hold? Do you go by normalized power, or just a percent of FTP? What percent of FTP is most commonly targeted?
Thanks!
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Another good month of training. Running a bit more relative to cycling and starting to see small results. Finally got some swim lessons to improve technique and two lessons in, it’s starting to help.
As I progress through my hybrid TR plan, the workouts are increasing in length and I’m starting to get that feeling of being imbalanced between training time vs. work/life time. So I think I’m dialing it back to 3 workouts each of swim, bike, and run (down from 3-4-4 respectively), plus 2-3 gym sessions, per week.
Annoyance…I still find myself looking at the IM Florida 140.6 webpage/site about 2-3x per week lol.
Good luck with training everyone!
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In preparation for Ironman Maryland, August was a very good month of training.
Swim 46,899 yards of swimming, I missed two days of swimming because a transformer near the pool blew out. Always do a check of your equipment before race day. Friday was an open water swim, 375 yards into the swim my sunny race goggles broke, fortunately I had my overcast/indoor goggles in my swim bag
Bike 711 miles. Fastest 100 mile training ride ever.
Run 132 miles. Solid month hitting race pace goal for all bricks and long runs.
Strength 4 hours
Sunday was my last long run. This coming Saturday will be a 5:20/:40 Race Prep brick. September 10th last long swim 4500-5000.
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| Workouts | Time | Distance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swim | 3 | 2:05 | 5.9 km | ||
| Bike | 26 | 43:31 | 1347 km | ||
| Run | 10 | 8:45 | 96 km |
The wheels came off my training a little bit this month. I got exposed to Covid earlier his month; thankfully I ended up not getting it, but I had to cancel an Olympic-distance race at the last minute just to be safe. We’re getting lots of wildfire smoke lately, which has forced me mostly indoors; I don’t mind riding indoors, so my cycling volume has held steady, but running on a treadmill is a different matter and my run volume is way down. And, I simply fell of the wagon with swimming, I don’t have an excuse for that except laziness.
I’m racing 70.3 Tri-Cities later this month, so I’m gonna try to make the most of these next three weeks, play it by ear, and just treat it as a chill end of season race.
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That’s a hell of a month! Great work!
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Sorry to hear about Covid exposure but great to not get it. I’m like you…I enjoy indoor riding…safer, more efficient, etc. But man treadmills suck. I do like running on the local YMCA’s Assault Runner Pro self-propelled treadmill every now and then for some technique work.
Fun to come back and check in on volume with you guys. Good luck to you finishing out the season with races.
Marathon later this month so i’ve spent all my time on two feet vs the pool or bike.
Having a tricky time deciding where I want to focus my energy through end of year. I’ve got one more Half Marathon Race at the end of November. Then I’ve got winter to train. I’ve typically had lots of fun getting back into structured bike training on the trainer that time of year, but the recent running has me enjoying speedwork a lot and wondering if i could ratchet down the 5k times if i put 10-12 weeks of dedicated 5k training into the calendar.
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In the process of building a 2026 schedule and training plan i’m wondering how to address a limiter. In my case that would be the bike part. I feel like a 10w/4% ftp increase could get me to podium my AG instead of being around top10 which is not too bad i reckon.
So how would you handle a bike specific FTP developpment and still running and swimming? Or maybe should one quit running and swimming for a while and accept a drop of fitness ?
I’m tempted to follow a sustained power build program with 2 runs(1 long, 1 threshold) and 2 swims per week and then go back to base with a tri program.
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What distance are you targeting?
2026 : Rolling Half late may & rolling Full early July.
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How did it go? What was training plan like and about how many total hours did you train per discipline? Anything you would do different
Wow. Raced Nice WC last Sunday. That bike course was beautiful and HARD. But so beautiful, with a bit of everything, maybe my favourite 5.75hrs on a bike ever. Took me almost an hour longer than the flattish Ottawa course 6 weeks ago. Completely blew up on the run but it was such an excellent week and day and seeing the Norwegians sailing by as a trio was crazy, too.
I decided to do my first IM about 11 months ago, and can’t believe I got here… with our final, third, kid on the way I think it will be a while til I can race long course again, but have really loved most of the process and so glad the stars aligned for me to train like I did the last month’s.
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Superbe! Being at the WC is already a great achievement. One teammate was also in Nice. Also a brutal run, maybe due to the not so easy bike course I guess 
IM Maryland in the morning Bill Downing #233
Send postive vibes, at 3:00 or so this morning my right calf decided it was time to cramp.
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GL! Hope you’re smashing the carbs right now.
Congrats on finishing 6th in your division!
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