***update: I’m d.lebeouf or damon lebeouf on Zwift if you want to follow and check out my workouts***
first off i am not paid / affiliated with the 80/20 endurance training guys. i'm an slightly above average MOP (5:15:XX 70.3) guy wanting to get faster. i am paying for their plan out of my own pocket and the only communication ive had directly with anyone was a little assistance getting my account setup with them and a few plan support questions my last race was iroman 70.3 texas (in galveston) and my next is going to be 70.3 in waco.
previously, ive done my own training on my own, just trying to piece together my own plan using the barry p method i found here and cycling plans from trainer road. swim... eh... i get in the pool when i can and on the vasa as time allows. my swim, like many others, is my weakest discipline and its because i have put just enough into it to keep me floating and to T1. i live in an area where there is absolutely zero swim coaching available.
i love the bike leg so ive put all my efforts thus far into the bike, and just smashed myself on the workouts. i do like the TR plans (talk about a sense of accomplishment after a killer VO2 max session), however im not entirely sure they are setup for triathlon. i know they say they are, however their plans left me feeling very drained. after a good hard workout i didnt have anything left in the tank at all, and i was always tired.
i was slow running it with barry p so at least my runs were not killing me too. (barry p ironically enough is based on low intensity and i wound up going from 8:30 pace down to a touch under 8:00 with semi consistent high volume / low intensity running.)
i ran across 80/20, wound up doing a lot of reading and podcast listening as well as talking to others that use the method and decided to give this training method a try. i really was drawn to the low intensity idea which would leave more gas in the tank for life in general, and less possibility of injury. 80/20 endurance has paid training plans you can use that get loaded into training peaks and you just follow the plan. easy peasy. i like this too because i dont have to try and figure out what i should be doing day to day, its already setup for me. i wont get into the nuts and bolts of 80/20 or how they have everything setup, you can read for yourself or ask specific questions and ill answer them here.
i havnt heard them mentioned here so i thought id get a weekly rolling review of the plan im using, their "half ironman level 3" plan.
my setup at home: road bike on the tacx neo, using zwift. treadmill with a treadtracker for speed for zwift or outside neighborhood runs. swim will be done majority of the time on the vasa erg and pool as i have time to go
my setup at my remote work location: right now i have a spin bike i use with my favero pedals (tacx bike smart is on order), woodway treadmill linking to zwift via bluetooth, and again a vasa erg.
week 1
so far this week seems its just getting your feet wet with the low intensity idea. there was one higher intensity run session and a couple of bike sessions and even they were not that rough. i found myself pulling back on the bike so i didnt go over into the next training zone, and i found wanting to run faster all the time on the treadmill but just sticking to the plan. VO2 max sessions on TR have left me absolutely wobbly-legged. the first VO2 session with 80/20, i could feel the lactic acid begin to dump but the work load and duration wasnt anything like what ive felt before. super easy in comparison. this is just week 1 however.
the swim is different than what im used to because previously i didnt have much guidance / direction. the workouts have been good and its been great seeing a pace that i need to be shooting for versus trying to makeup my own stuff cobbled together from the internet.
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80/20 Endurance Ambassador
first off i am not paid / affiliated with the 80/20 endurance training guys. i'm an slightly above average MOP (5:15:XX 70.3) guy wanting to get faster. i am paying for their plan out of my own pocket and the only communication ive had directly with anyone was a little assistance getting my account setup with them and a few plan support questions my last race was iroman 70.3 texas (in galveston) and my next is going to be 70.3 in waco.
previously, ive done my own training on my own, just trying to piece together my own plan using the barry p method i found here and cycling plans from trainer road. swim... eh... i get in the pool when i can and on the vasa as time allows. my swim, like many others, is my weakest discipline and its because i have put just enough into it to keep me floating and to T1. i live in an area where there is absolutely zero swim coaching available.
i love the bike leg so ive put all my efforts thus far into the bike, and just smashed myself on the workouts. i do like the TR plans (talk about a sense of accomplishment after a killer VO2 max session), however im not entirely sure they are setup for triathlon. i know they say they are, however their plans left me feeling very drained. after a good hard workout i didnt have anything left in the tank at all, and i was always tired.
i was slow running it with barry p so at least my runs were not killing me too. (barry p ironically enough is based on low intensity and i wound up going from 8:30 pace down to a touch under 8:00 with semi consistent high volume / low intensity running.)
i ran across 80/20, wound up doing a lot of reading and podcast listening as well as talking to others that use the method and decided to give this training method a try. i really was drawn to the low intensity idea which would leave more gas in the tank for life in general, and less possibility of injury. 80/20 endurance has paid training plans you can use that get loaded into training peaks and you just follow the plan. easy peasy. i like this too because i dont have to try and figure out what i should be doing day to day, its already setup for me. i wont get into the nuts and bolts of 80/20 or how they have everything setup, you can read for yourself or ask specific questions and ill answer them here.
i havnt heard them mentioned here so i thought id get a weekly rolling review of the plan im using, their "half ironman level 3" plan.
my setup at home: road bike on the tacx neo, using zwift. treadmill with a treadtracker for speed for zwift or outside neighborhood runs. swim will be done majority of the time on the vasa erg and pool as i have time to go
my setup at my remote work location: right now i have a spin bike i use with my favero pedals (tacx bike smart is on order), woodway treadmill linking to zwift via bluetooth, and again a vasa erg.
week 1
so far this week seems its just getting your feet wet with the low intensity idea. there was one higher intensity run session and a couple of bike sessions and even they were not that rough. i found myself pulling back on the bike so i didnt go over into the next training zone, and i found wanting to run faster all the time on the treadmill but just sticking to the plan. VO2 max sessions on TR have left me absolutely wobbly-legged. the first VO2 session with 80/20, i could feel the lactic acid begin to dump but the work load and duration wasnt anything like what ive felt before. super easy in comparison. this is just week 1 however.
the swim is different than what im used to because previously i didnt have much guidance / direction. the workouts have been good and its been great seeing a pace that i need to be shooting for versus trying to makeup my own stuff cobbled together from the internet.
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80/20 Endurance Ambassador
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damon.lebeouf: Aug 27, 19 10:27