Hey all,
First of all I have to say great site. I've been browsing here for a few weeks and finally decided I should register.
I race mainly sprint and olympic distance triathlons, with a half IM thrown in at the beginning of every season to toughen the legs up a bit.
My question is this: what should be harder, training or racing? I remember when I just found this site there was a video posted about the CSC team, and in it Jens Voigt said something like 'after this training camp racing will be a cruise'.
That got me thinking, should you train so hard that when you come to race, you'll be pushing yourself, but you'll be like 'I've done much harder things in training'. Should I train to be able to TT 80k hard then run a good 15k, so when I come to an OD race the 10k will feel like a run in the park?
First of all I have to say great site. I've been browsing here for a few weeks and finally decided I should register.
I race mainly sprint and olympic distance triathlons, with a half IM thrown in at the beginning of every season to toughen the legs up a bit.
My question is this: what should be harder, training or racing? I remember when I just found this site there was a video posted about the CSC team, and in it Jens Voigt said something like 'after this training camp racing will be a cruise'.
That got me thinking, should you train so hard that when you come to race, you'll be pushing yourself, but you'll be like 'I've done much harder things in training'. Should I train to be able to TT 80k hard then run a good 15k, so when I come to an OD race the 10k will feel like a run in the park?