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50-60 HIM files and you're using those to make comparisons as to what you think occurs over an IM??? You think a 4-7hr event is interrelated with a 8-15 hr event??
It's like trying to compare a 4 cyclinder motor with a 6 cylinder motor, they will both get you from A to B but how they get you there will be vastly different.
Seriously show me 50-60 IM files and my ears will start to prick up......... the biggest mistake IM athletes make with IM training is that they follow HIM training plans. They develop superior fitness to allow them to race really well for about 4-8hrs beyond that the wheels come off.......that is a fact the results prove that beyond a few files we all have on our databases.
Hell I even bet your best races DD, and even the athletes you coach, will be over HIM races and not IM races??? DD, I'm not having a go at you or anything, but I think will still have alot to learn, in terms of racing beyond 8hrs, AND, it shits me tears to constantly how often people believe they can substitute distance with intensity.
My bad, I also have 30-40 IM files and ~ 250 files from rides>4.5hours.
Have a go at me, I don't care. I know my shit, just search my user name, and my athletes rarely falter in fact even athletes I've had for 3-5 years still keep getting faster current vs prior vs prior year.
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You gotta to handle to distance before you can handle going faster.
Or in order to handle the distance, maybe of block of intensity would help? A raising tide lifts all boats. There is a pretty strong correlation to increasing the left side in order to raise the right side of the power curve. The majority of IM athletes try to lift their power curve from right to left though and we see how well that works.
But you do it your way and I'll do it my way. We can have coffee and discuss outcome results sometime.
Brian Stover USAT LII
Accelerate3 Coaching Insta