I’ve followed them more often than not. I’m mostly training for Olympic and 70.3 distances. I also come from a swimming background so I only swim twice a week. The bike I do as prescribed. I followed the run pretty regularly until I got hurt when doing speed work. I’m not a great runner and I likely didn’t have about running base to be messing with speed work. So now I use the run workouts as a guide but just focus on distance and mpw. For swimming I skip the drills, do a warmup, then the main set as prescribed, a kick set and a smallish cooldown. As I write this I realize I’m deviating from the plans more lately than when I started joined 3 years ago. I do get the feeling that they aren’t comfortable or don’t know or both how to really prescribe run and swim on more than a superficial level.

I do not. I really like the bike programs/progressions, in both the cycling and the tri plans. But for me, there isn't enough running. I'm not a good runner, and I've found I need much much (much) more consistency in running to run reasonably well (that is, I need to run six days a week for many weeks in a row to really feel good). But running is so personal, I'm sure others with a strong run background would perform very well.

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

In one of the recent podcasts a Kona Qualifer had used a full volume program. I'm going to use it for my upcoming 70.3 season.

I’m the same. I will do the brick run when they have it in the plan, but will adjust the intensity based on what I think I need to get done.

Nope.
Ive been following the 3day/week short course cycling plans to a T xcept for the beginner drills in the base plans.
I use barry p's run program incorperating the short runs into brics following cycling . Im a meh swimmer and have been using guppy challenge as my program. Here is my schedule below.

Mon am swim / pm bike-short run
Tues am med run / pm gym
Wed am swim / pm bike -short run
Thurs am med run / pm gym
Fri am swim / pm bike - short run
Sat pm long run
Sun off
Im a sprint guy so short runs are 26min moderate / med 43 min easy / long 1hr easy

I used them for Placid this year. Not bad, but I would have liked to have seen some more speed work/structure in the running portion. Complete opposite of Friel’s plans. The bike plan was solid.

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Nope, and I wish they would give an option to remove all the non-bike workouts. Triathlon training is so individually specific that their swim/run workouts simply don't fit my schedule and how I want to train.

I've been using TR for like 5 years and just now did my first Tri plan of theirs. I did like most people here are saying and deleted the swim and run from the calendar. I do really like how easy to use the calendar feature is.

I do every workout per TrainerRoad using the full-distance medium-volume training plan and it got me down to a 3:13 marathon in Madison (10 minute PR) so I plan to keep using it.