Sort of? I’ve been comfortably taking in 90+/hr on the bike for a few years, but it’s been a learning process to then run off the bike. I did a 70.3 earlier this summer and totally cramped up after taking in 120+hr on the bike (which felt fine on the bike) but was quite obviously still working it’s way through my GI tract
So the common advice to practice nutrition on longer brick sessions was for me spot-on, and led me to dial back the carbs a bit, and front load them on the bike, and also dial back the run carbs a bit too.
Finishing an event and saying ‘I executed that well’ is one of the things that gets me out the door when I really dont want to train. You cant have that reaction without putting in the hours in the previous 8 months. Nice job and way to get the family involved. Have fun in Nice!
Thanks! And you nailed it. Hugely gratifying to be there and have it come together, and also for the family to kind of understand “ohhhh, this is what that was all about”
Glad you verified this for me! First half of the bike felt way faster than normal. Ive done Eagleman half a dozen times, and the bike is always fast on the way home. In the moment I got super frustrated that I wasn’t gaining more time on that stretch. Its refreshing to know it wasnt just a blow up lol
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.”
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
