Can I get your advice for setting up a training schedule? Most of the training guides I've seen have been either for triathlons or just a single event. I haven't found much for 2 event training.
I've been training for running and biking events this year. Not duathlons but seperate events. I did my first ever mountain bike race on Saturday and my first 5k of the year a week before that. I plan to do another 5k in mid June and a 25 mile bike race in the middle of September. I also hope to do some more mountain bike races before that.
I've been trying to get 3 rides and 3 runs per week on alternate days. I would like to introduce some speed work in the running and the mountain bike race convinced me that I need to work on hill climbing the most. My legs felt fine but I spent the entire race gasping for air, my throat still feels raw.
I'm hoping you can help me fill in the blanks and tweak things a little but I'm thinking of a schedule something like this:
Mon: Run - 30 minutes fast
Tues: Bike
Wed: Run - work up to 60 minutes
Thurs: Bike
Fri: Run - 30 minutes easy
Sat: Mountain bike
Sun: Rest
Thanks.
Panoramic
05-09-05, 09:01 PM
Maybe change the monday run so that you're not going out strong, then dying for 15 minutes. Something like 1min walk, 1min fast, 1 walk, 2 fast ... up to 6 or 7 min??? Runners help me out on this suggestion. Also keep in mind that as you work up to 60 min, and do this training for let's say 4 weeks, a 30 minute workout wont do you as much good as it used to. If time is a factor, 30 min is much better than nothing.
But I like how you keep things general. Because there are days where your brain just wont let it happen, and you may only want to bike for 20 min (like I did today!). Sometimes you have to listen to that voice in your head. Sometimes in your tough training weeks you shouldn't.
MHR
05-09-05, 10:20 PM
send me your email in a private msg and I will help you....
MHR
05-11-05, 02:19 AM
Hello,
Can I get your advice for setting up a training schedule? Most of the training guides I've seen have been either for triathlons or just a single event. I haven't found much for 2 event training.
I've been training for running and biking events this year. Not duathlons but seperate events. I did my first ever mountain bike race on Saturday and my first 5k of the year a week before that. I plan to do another 5k in mid June and a 25 mile bike race in the middle of September. I also hope to do some more mountain bike races before that.
I've been trying to get 3 rides and 3 runs per week on alternate days. I would like to introduce some speed work in the running and the mountain bike race convinced me that I need to work on hill climbing the most. My legs felt fine but I spent the entire race gasping for air, my throat still feels raw.
I'm hoping you can help me fill in the blanks and tweak things a little but I'm thinking of a schedule something like this:
Mon: Run - 30 minutes fast
Tues: Bike
Wed: Run - work up to 60 minutes
Thurs: Bike
Fri: Run - 30 minutes easy
Sat: Mountain bike
Sun: Rest
Thanks.
I will share some basic things you need to know about training as it is applied to racing differnt events throughout the year. Also, check your private msg and let me know.
Ingredients
** Now thinking of a "running only event" such as a marathon - you use Intervals/Speed work, Hill work, General aerobic, LSD, Middle distance, recovery work, strength training, rest days...etc. Using this method across all 3-sports is also key for Triathlons as you move up in distance - especially for the 1/2 IM and IM distance. When you are just starting off in sprint or Olympic distance using these ingredients are just as important. As your training progresses toward an event your training changes and you use differnt amounts of ingredients at different times within your build-up.
Applying those ingredients
** This is part of the secret (or not so secret), on top of that using "periodization" to all 3-sports is also key. To understand this purchase the book "Advanced Marathoning" It details this topic in depth. You can then apply it to your training for Sprint and Olympic distance events.
So IMHO it's all about having good "ingredients" and then "applying those ingredients" for a specific outcome.
Step outside the box - race in sport specific events
** I am also a big beliver of racing in sport specific events as well; Swimming only, Biking only and Running only. I do this every year competing in open water swim series events, and Bike TT's as well as several century rides.
You will never know what FAST is until you race with swim and cyclists in their world. Then you take that experience back to the world of Tri.
** Use races as a part of your training
selecting some events as "A" races or key events and others as stepping stones. Don't get the idea that the others don't matter - it's just that some are a little more important than others. As an example I run a 1/2 marathon the week before I run the "Pikes Peak double" (both the Assent which is a 1/2 marathon on Saturday and then the Marathon on Sunday, back to Back). Pikes Peak weekend is one of my "A" races, but I still run the 1/2 marathon the week before at race pace, but my training is geared to use it as a building block or in prep for.
** Think of your training as climbing a mountain
Racing multiple events is a series of build-up and recovery....build-up and recovery. It is training to "peak" several times in a season and it takes practice to understand this technique. The key is that during the build-up phase you are applying the correct approach in your training that get's you ready for a specific event.
You cannot just take the schedule as you have above and repeat it over and over - if you do you - are going no where except building some general conditioning.