TOinTRI wrote:
I really think the injury helped my run in Kona this year. Most importantly, it allowed be to up both volume and quality on the bike. In our Kansas camp I was hitting numbers I'd never seen before in training. The extra bike fitness allowed me to ride within myself in Kona this year. While I may have had better run fitness in years past I had always ridden too hard and couldn't access my run ability. When I hit T2 this year it was definitely the best my legs have ever felt in Kona.
The alter G was a huge benefit to my running as well. It allowed me to really train my neuromuscular without the wear and tear of some of those bigger run sessions. It really left my legs fresher then normal. You can't train like that all year (have to do the work at some point) but luckily my run fitness was great prior to the injury so I had some fitness in the bank.
I also noticed my recovery was a lot tougher after running that well with lower run volume, I guess there are trade offs, right!
The question that builds on this that swim+bike threshold to T2 is key to a good IM. It feels like you want to do your run block "way early" and maybe loose a bit of run specificity, to jack up swim + bike but have "enough left" to execute the IM run at the highest "percent" of retained run fitness.
Related to this, in the last 6 weeks what was the rough average breakdown in swim hours, bike hours and run+virtual run hours and would you use the Halter G again in your build to help jack up swim+bike