I'm getting back into Tri after a 3 year layoff due to career and family. The career situation has changed, and I'm no longer putting in 80-100 hours per week. While some of this new found time is going to family, I'm also committing to getting back to competition shape.
Today, I'm 36, 6'0" and 195lbs, about 15lbs over my racing weight (was 11% bf, hydro tested). My goal is to do a serious weight drop, targeting 173lbs and sub 10% bf over the course of a year.
Have won some small local races, lots of top tens (overall). Point being, I was decent locally. Never thought about, or trained for regionals or races with more than 300-400 people.
Old training volume was ~8-12 hours per week, heavy run focus.
Today... I'm four weeks into my running plan which is very similar to Barry P's incredible work. Swimming isn't going to start until next year.
My goal is to be be ready to blast in the spring of 2017.
I skipped cycling because that is my question. I've started using TrainerRoad with my CT (currently doing Tradional Base-Low Volume), and I love it. My first target race is ~15 months out with the A races coming in the late summer. How should I approach the various plans with such a long timeframe?
1) Approach 1: 12 weeks of the low volume base, followed by 12 of medium volume, 12 high volume, then high volume build then high volume Tri specialty.
2) Approach 2: low volume base, low volume build, low volume Tri, then do medium, then high.
3) Approach 3: I'm doing this wrong, do it this way!
Once I get races on the schedule it can all be tweaked.
Any way, I want to really focus on the bike, do this right, and come out in 2017 better than I left off in 2012. I'm a finance guy and appreciate feedback from you folks with the backgrounds in fields pertaining to performance. All I know on the topic comes from this board which is a good thing. Right? Right?
Thanks in advance!
Today, I'm 36, 6'0" and 195lbs, about 15lbs over my racing weight (was 11% bf, hydro tested). My goal is to do a serious weight drop, targeting 173lbs and sub 10% bf over the course of a year.
Have won some small local races, lots of top tens (overall). Point being, I was decent locally. Never thought about, or trained for regionals or races with more than 300-400 people.
Old training volume was ~8-12 hours per week, heavy run focus.
Today... I'm four weeks into my running plan which is very similar to Barry P's incredible work. Swimming isn't going to start until next year.
My goal is to be be ready to blast in the spring of 2017.
I skipped cycling because that is my question. I've started using TrainerRoad with my CT (currently doing Tradional Base-Low Volume), and I love it. My first target race is ~15 months out with the A races coming in the late summer. How should I approach the various plans with such a long timeframe?
1) Approach 1: 12 weeks of the low volume base, followed by 12 of medium volume, 12 high volume, then high volume build then high volume Tri specialty.
2) Approach 2: low volume base, low volume build, low volume Tri, then do medium, then high.
3) Approach 3: I'm doing this wrong, do it this way!
Once I get races on the schedule it can all be tweaked.
Any way, I want to really focus on the bike, do this right, and come out in 2017 better than I left off in 2012. I'm a finance guy and appreciate feedback from you folks with the backgrounds in fields pertaining to performance. All I know on the topic comes from this board which is a good thing. Right? Right?
Thanks in advance!