I would love to hear some responses from people who have done multiple IM's.
Consider the following scenarios.
1. Person trains 15 hours a week (for 26 weeks), does lots of endurance based rides, avoids higher threshold (quality) workouts. Does the race, races hard and pushes it and finishes in 10 hours.
2. Person trains 10 hours a week (for 26 weeks), does mainly threshold workouts (busts his ass but always monitoring his workouts to stay injury free, limits pool time to two strenuous 45 minute sessions. Does the race and is looking just to finish, backs way off from the level they trained at and stick with a basic endurance pace throughout. They finish this race in????????? hours.
Before you all say it, I know it depends on their aerobic base/swim level.....but lets just say for arguments sake this person (me!!) has done 80 tris over the last 5 years and this is their first IM.
Based you your experience what happens to me on 10 hours. I would probably shoot for a 11:00 + time and be happy to finish.
Consider the following scenarios.
1. Person trains 15 hours a week (for 26 weeks), does lots of endurance based rides, avoids higher threshold (quality) workouts. Does the race, races hard and pushes it and finishes in 10 hours.
2. Person trains 10 hours a week (for 26 weeks), does mainly threshold workouts (busts his ass but always monitoring his workouts to stay injury free, limits pool time to two strenuous 45 minute sessions. Does the race and is looking just to finish, backs way off from the level they trained at and stick with a basic endurance pace throughout. They finish this race in????????? hours.
Before you all say it, I know it depends on their aerobic base/swim level.....but lets just say for arguments sake this person (me!!) has done 80 tris over the last 5 years and this is their first IM.
Based you your experience what happens to me on 10 hours. I would probably shoot for a 11:00 + time and be happy to finish.