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A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1?
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So by June 1, its warm enough around here to open water swim and I don't need to rely on pools. Which means I can do my own triathlons again. So I am thinking of month of June seeing if I can get 1 Olympic tri of training per day done around normal life.

On paper this is easy. I need one long tim slot to bike commute to open water swim and bike back and I need another shorter time slot to run 10km. With overhead for changing, putting on wetsuit, locking bike I need to carve out 3 hrs per day to do this (90 min biking, 30 min swimming, 60 min running).

It roughly works out to 21 hrs of training per week for a month (90 hrs) with 300km of running. The hard part will be to make it repeatable around life responsibilities.

Anyone else interested in this challenge. My thought is you can do any format/order in any number of sessions needed, as long as you cover the Olympic distance daily. Walking would be permitted for the run leg too (IC rules). If you want to draft your buddies in the swim and bike like Alistair Brownlee, that's OK too. I probably end up doing this all solo myself not knowing what group gathering restrictions will be in the part of Canada where I am located. Most of my swims will likely be longer than 1500m too. I'll likely end up with 3000m of swimming most days.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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devashish_paul wrote:
So by June 1, its warm enough around here to open water swim and I don't need to rely on pools. Which means I can do my own triathlons again. So I am thinking of month of June seeing if I can get 1 Olympic tri of training per day done around normal life.

On paper this is easy. I need one long tim slot to bike commute to open water swim and bike back and I need another shorter time slot to run 10km. With overhead for changing, putting on wetsuit, locking bike I need to carve out 3 hrs per day to do this (90 min biking, 30 min swimming, 60 min running).

It roughly works out to 21 hrs of training per week for a month (90 hrs) with 300km of running. The hard part will be to make it repeatable around life responsibilities.

Anyone else interested in this challenge. My thought is you can do any format/order in any number of sessions needed, as long as you cover the Olympic distance daily. Walking would be permitted for the run leg too (IC rules). If you want to draft your buddies in the swim and bike like Alistair Brownlee, that's OK too. I probably end up doing this all solo myself not knowing what group gathering restrictions will be in the part of Canada where I am located. Most of my swims will likely be longer than 1500m too. I'll likely end up with 3000m of swimming most days.

since you require no order, i think I am in (i like to do reverse tri efforts). Would be nice if this was added to ST training challenges.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [synthetic] [ In reply to ]
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For you and Herbert Krabel, it has to be a half IM per day LOL!!!

We can enter Iron Cowboy too, but he's doing a bit of extra
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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All right, I'll give it a go. (It sounds like fun.) I just hope I can find a pool that'll have me!
(Great excuse to get in shape. It's like the 100 runs in 100 days...)

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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devashish_paul wrote:
For you and Herbert Krabel, it has to be a half IM per day LOL!!!

We can enter Iron Cowboy too, but he's doing a bit of extra

I did do that before (close enough). But this challenge will be harder for me, as pool lanes are hard to reserve
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [synthetic] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah, the pool thing is a problem with slots. That's why I put June 1 so those in Northern Hemisphere who can get to open water if you live close enough. Maybe some kind of concession on swim where you can do 3000m in a day if you got zero the day before (or something like that).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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Yup, no way for me to get in the pool very day, and access to open water here is even trickier. Plus I decided that challenges divert me from focusing and preparing (resting) for my other race goals - so I am certainly out.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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Hey Dev,
I really wanted to give this a try when you first posted it, but the pools won’t realistically open here for quite some time. The nearest lake is more than 40 km away by bike, so that isn’t a viable option either.
This means that I will have to pass on the challenge this time.
I hope the pools open soon, because I have two triathlons in August, and I haven’t been in the water since the end of October. Plus, I’m tired of just running and biking all the time :-)
Ciao
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [Flemish Arrow] [ In reply to ]
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With or without IV’s?
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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I’m interested in something like this— but I’m looking at sprint distance. I’m kind of out of shape.

Are you okay with a sprint distance person joining your thing on June 1?
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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So I don’t have any more races until July so I’m going to jump in as a big training block.
My caveats are that Monday thru Friday my bikes and runs will be on a trainer and treadmill (as I can fit this in at my work pain cave) but on the weekends I’ll be out in the wild. Luckily my pool is open 7 days a week and you don’t have to reserve lanes - just swim around the local teen swim team who make you feel really slow.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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Bumping this to get the action started. I hope this ends up like the 100 runs in 100 days thread.

(I just got my 10k for the day done at the track. The only other person there was a very nice high jumper (Amina Smith) whose goal is the Olympics. After getting home I found out she's ranked 31st in the world.)

Let's get the stories started...

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [madMike100] [ In reply to ]
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So forgot it was June 1st this morning until I got to work, so did things even more out of order than I intended.
Lunch time run - 6 miles on the treadmill (45 mins)
After work - 25 miles on the bike trainer (1hr 15min)
After after work - 1600 yards in the pool (30 mins)

Starting tomorrow I’ll have the order as swim before work, run at lunch, the ride after work, pretty much doing the same distances/times as today. This should work out as a nice block of easy base miles (I’m going to take the IronCowboy approach of this will all be done at sloooow paces) but hopefully the accumulation of distance/time over the month will be beneficial, then ramp up speed into July. Morning swims will be easier next week when my daughter has finished school and will join me for the 6:00am swims.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [HoustonTri(er)] [ In reply to ]
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HoustonTri(er) wrote:
So forgot it was June 1st this morning until I got to work, so did things even more out of order than I intended.
Lunch time run - 6 miles on the treadmill (45 mins)
After work - 25 miles on the bike trainer (1hr 15min)
After after work - 1600 yards in the pool (30 mins)
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missed 50yd on swim and .24 mi on run! but better than me. I had no water access yesterday. today I can start, definitely wont hit 30/30. maybe 8/30. More possible next month with more pool openings
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [synthetic] [ In reply to ]
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Yeah, my day was a little off too. (Breakfast at 7pm?) Was late to the pool so only 1300m (200m short) before they closed, which I'll make up today. Bike was 25.1 miles, so OK there.

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [synthetic] [ In reply to ]
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Well the distances of the Olympic races around Houston are not all set in stone so I was going for a kind of average of what my times and distances have been for this distance over the past years. Since I'm on the treadmill and trainer during the week distances aren't going to be exact anyway. Plus my OCD kicks in and I like nice round numbers.
Swim this morning and run at lunch, so just have the bike left after work.
I'm definitely lucky with my HOA pool open and no need to book lanes. At 7:00am this morning I was the only person in the entire pool.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [HoustonTri(er)] [ In reply to ]
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I decided that I am going to try to run 10km every day in general and bike 300km per week (and ride daily....some days may only be 27km which is my commute to go swim, but 7x40km = 280km). Swimming is a bit complicated with my work schedule and current lack of pools and when the open water spot does not have too much boat traffic, so I will try to get 15,000m per week (need 10.5km per week to get to Olympic tri level).

If I put this month in, I will be set to do an Ironman later in the year if I can get into one as I will have an intensity x frequency mid volume focus (vs volume thru long single workouts).

This morning I took a half day of vacation and had time to do a 50km bike + 11km where I did a single hill 6x on bike and 4x on the run adding up to 550m of vertical. I then drove over to a local old quarry pond that is near the venue that I did the morning du and had time to do 1600m of open water at this swim location that is barely 200m long, but longer than a LC pool...was able to swim no wetsuit since I was hot after my du segment



Todays bike : https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/6888677463
Today's run: https://connect.garmin.com/.../activity/6888677577

Tomorrow unlikely to be able to swim due to now pool and potential for lightening outdoors. So Friday will be make up swim days since today was light and yesterday was zero.

Pools opening on 14 June so that will help too
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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1/2 : swim: 1650yd, bike 32.5 mi, run 11.16
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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As usual, slower than a triplegic dog, so no times but

25.6 miles cycling (in 2 parts to make sure I got to the pool on time)
1700 meters swim (catching up the 200 meters I missed on the 1st) ("National breatstroke convention" going on at the pool yesterday, with all lanes filled with them for at least 20 minutes.)
6.4 miles "run" (treadmill to control speed so injury doesn't come back)

I have to work on planning my eating, as I'm still eating light for a 64-year-old metabolism (1300 cals/day for the first 2 days) and needs have gone up considerably. (At least I made sure of protein needs.)

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [madMike100] [ In reply to ]
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madMike100 wrote:
As usual, slower than a triplegic dog, so no times but

25.6 miles cycling (in 2 parts to make sure I got to the pool on time)
1700 meters swim (catching up the 200 meters I missed on the 1st) ("National breatstroke convention" going on at the pool yesterday, with all lanes filled with them for at least 20 minutes.)
6.4 miles "run" (treadmill to control speed so injury doesn't come back)

I have to work on planning my eating, as I'm still eating light for a 64-year-old metabolism (1300 cals/day for the first 2 days) and needs have gone up considerably. (At least I made sure of protein needs.)

Good job, day three starts today. It is raining with risk of thunder, so I will over achieve on my bike (trainer) target and do 10km of running split between a short transition run and an evening jog. I doubt I will get to open water this evening, but I will watch weather to see if it is clear. On a plus note when it is raining the beach is empty and no boat and kite surfer traffic
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [madMike100] [ In reply to ]
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Target for the month would

45km swimming, 12000km biking, 300km running
Depending on your speed it is roughly a 90-100 hrs month.
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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I figure if I can make it to the middle of next week hitting targets each day then I will be able to make it through the month - keeping the consistency for the swim will be the biggest benefit to me as that is my weakest segment. I'll be fractionally low on numbers compared to others, ,but my understanding in these "personal" challenges is that you can make up the rules as you seem fit. The reward is the challenge.
My monthly target will be Swim - 48,000 yards, Bike - 750 miles, Run - 180 miles (75 hours @ 2.5 hours a day)
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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devashish_paul wrote:
Target for the month would

45km swimming, 12000km biking, 300km running
Depending on your speed it is roughly a 90-100 hrs month.

I don't think I can manage 12000km on the bike this month. ;-)

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [madMike100] [ In reply to ]
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Haha, 12,000 km in the month was 2.5K the IC plan. OK 1200km for the month.

I did a 2km warmup jog, got on the 40km IMLP course on Rouvy and 1km cooldown jog so far today.

This evening I either run some more or if weather lets up, I will ride over for an open water swim. If I swim, I end up "on track" for swimming, but behind a touch on the run (currently at 27km running on day three, need 30km, currently at 1600m swimming need 4500m...ahead on biking, but that is the easy part)

https://my.rouvy.com/...iary/detail/11159204
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Re: A Month of Olympic Tris (30/30) - Who is in on June 1? [devashish_paul] [ In reply to ]
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Missed the swim yesterday because of an accident that would have made the trip to the pool over an hour, so I owe 1500 meters swim.

Did the other parts pretty much on the nose (each .02 miles over).

Bike still quite a challange since I can't breathe in aero (except when not pedalling) because of the gut that I hope this month eliminates. (When I can do aero this will be a lot easier.)

And yesterday I relearned how to EAT. (Not the mousy stuff for a 64-yr-old metabolism.)

How are you guys doing?

Tri or tri not; this is no du. (--- with apologies to Yoda.) Slow triathlete who survived Huntsville, Lelystadt, Colmar, Fontanil, and
Szekesfehervar/Lake Velence. Arbor hydration specialist in a kid's park in Monterrey 4 times in the 1990s (and in the pits in 1994).
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