Ty wrote:
mopak wrote:
Kayak, mountain bike, trail run, kayak, mountain bike, trail run, trail run. No need for a rest day, expect to get plenty of them when I am dead.
Ok I guess when the question was how many days a week do you train I thought they meant specifically triathlon training.
To me mountain biking and kayaking is not "training" per say. I love to mix it up and do different activities such as this but I don't necessarily consider it "training."
Sorry if I wasn't supposed to post because I am not a traditional tri guy.
I do 3 sports and train hard for all 3 so thought I was relevent to the thread.
My paddle last night was on the lake with winds at 50 plus km per hour and a 1 to 1.5 metre chop, last thursday I paddled a fast flowing river, the fast and breezy 20 min downstream was balanced by a brutal 70 mins upstream , I promise both of those sessions constitute "training". I have not had a road or tri bike for maybe 17 years. My 800 buck mtb still manages to keep me fit. In my early 40s off pure mtb work I was still able to break the hour for 40 km on a borrowed rusty old road bike. I also rode 250 km on the road a few years back (in my 50s) on my knobbies and dropped the tri club crew I had started with so yeah I reckon it still constitutes training. Most of my runs average 6m 30s per km and have a few 8 to 10 min kms because of the terrain but at 55 I can still drop a 19m 5k. So yeah even those slow grinding runs and rides on my beloved Rocky Horror Show trails constitute training.
I work shift work either 7am to 4, 1pm to 10 or 9pm to 8am and have a 100 km roundtrip commute. I am renovating and landscaping our historic old property. I also walk about 40 to 50 kms per week in the forests (photography and flora /fauna monitoring). I usually paddle 1 to 1.5 hrs mon,thu. Bike 1.5 to 2 hours tue, fri and run 1.5 to 2 hrs. wed, sat, sun.