Hello all. A bit of background about me. I am a 42 year old woman who has been doing sprint and oly triathlons and duathlons for 3 years. I have my first half ironman on July 12. Swimming is by far my weakest leg, so I have spent the winter working on that and building a base of 6000-7500 meters a week. I also run 25-30 mpw, bike 50-75 mpw, and strength train 2x per week. The bike is my strongest leg, but I have a gran fondo with 12,000' of climbing at the end of June, so I am cutting back the swimming to around 5000 m per week and increasing the bike. So far this spring, my longest bricks have been a 12 mi run followed by a 2500 m swim and a 32 mi bike followed by a 10 mi run. I was tired after both, but not exhausted. I also finished 3/107 in a sprint a couple weeks ago.
Part of me feels ready for the race (goal time is a generous 6:30), but new distances always freak me out, and I feel that I have to be missing something in my training. Are there any key workouts that you would recommend? Is there anything that I should really focus on in the next two months before I taper?
Any advice is appreciated.
Part of me feels ready for the race (goal time is a generous 6:30), but new distances always freak me out, and I feel that I have to be missing something in my training. Are there any key workouts that you would recommend? Is there anything that I should really focus on in the next two months before I taper?
Any advice is appreciated.