Bryce Lewis TR wrote:
The Plan Builder is designed to train you for a singular focus: your A race. The B and C races just fall in as they may.
The best approach to prepare you for your specific blend of events would be:
- First, go through the Plan Builder for your sprint triathlons on low volume. Depending on the spacing, you may need to set some of your sprint distance events as B races. Your final Sprint of the season will need to be an A race.
- Once you've added it to calendar, go through and delete all of the cycling workouts.
- Set up another Plan Builder plan based on your cycling A races. When selecting volume, remember that you will be running and swimming as well, so don't bite off too much too soon. Add this plan to your calendar.
This allows you to have the cycling setup according to your cycling A races, with some running and swimming sprinkled in as well. This is not a perfect solution because your rest weeks will not line up appropriately between the two plans. You will need some manual manipulation to optimize things, and as a general rule, when you are on a rest week for your cycling, try to sub in recovery run/swim workouts so that you can properly have a "down" week from all of your disciplines.
i hope this makes sense as a workaround, let me know if you have any questions :)
Bryce -
I am wondering what you think of using a similar approach for an off-road (Xterra) tri. I finished 12 weeks of Sweet Spot base, and used Plan Builder for an Xterra triathlon in May. I was given 6 weeks of general build and 8 weeks of specialty phase for an Olympic distance triathlon. In setting this up, I noticed I could pick off-road triathlon as triathlon type but I don’t think this made a difference in my plan. So, do you advise manually deleting my cycle days in calendar, keeping swim/runs, then loading a new plan with an XC Olympic distance A race on the same date in May as this tri? Obviously, an off-road tri is quite different from a road steady state bike effort. Especially as the year goes on with big climbing bike legs in the US Xterra trifecta Beaver Creek/Ogden/Maui.
Thanks for the help. TR is a great asset for me.
Bill B.