mortysct wrote:
I'm very confident that people can perform well on 8 hours per week. I'm also very confident that these people are high responsers to exercise and would perform a lot better on twice or three times that volume.
I also dont understand, like stated earlier, why one would like to race a race where fatigue resistance and energy intake is major factors if one does not want to train these factors. Just do sprints and olys!
Pretty simple answer (my personal opinion and experience): I have not done long-course races for a few years due to various reasons, mainly family live, but wanted to enjoy the fun, thrill, spirit and experience of a long-course triathlon while balancing training activities well with family and job life. 8~10 hours in avg. in the 6 months build-up was my limit to race in Roth two weeks ago. And I worked well for me (agreeing only with "do short swims" and "no early season long bike" but nothing else though). I had a good, enjoyable, fast race, I recovered quickly and believe now that long-course distances do definitively not require 15~20 hours.
Could I have done better with more training? Most likely, yes. But my goal was to achieve the best with that limited available time and I feel like I achieved that. Sweet for me! So, why should I do only sprints and olys?