Do you have any periodical benchmarks that you constantly go to and if so what are they? How often do you "test" them to see if you are improving? For bike I'm assuming it's an FTP test for most, easy to control via trainer, consistent conditions. Swim, consistent pool conditions, maybe a set of 5x500 and averaging those times for the day? Run I feel like for me is such a variable with conditions (no treadmill access really) and it's the most dependent on how I feel at that moment.
I'm moving up to the half distance this year and structuring my training and didn't know how often people do a check on their progress. I look at the daily data and am always happy to see the times coming down on average but ideally I'd like to have something more concrete to review and then be able to see if everything is paying off and seeing what is/isn't working. Just curious to how others go at this.
I'm moving up to the half distance this year and structuring my training and didn't know how often people do a check on their progress. I look at the daily data and am always happy to see the times coming down on average but ideally I'd like to have something more concrete to review and then be able to see if everything is paying off and seeing what is/isn't working. Just curious to how others go at this.