Hello,
I’m training for my first Oly so the distances have increased, and while I have been able to dedicate more time to training by eliminating uneccessary weight training and other activities. My family obligations prevent me from doing as much as I would like. My question is this. Over the last couple of months (the offseason,) I have been focusing on my swim so I have been doing one long bike and one long run each week. I would then do a brick workout composed of a short bike and a short run strictly to get more run AND bike time in a week. I’m not a fan of frequent brick training but due to time this is the only way I have been able to get two running and two biking sessions a week. Is there any negative affect on performance from doing this? As I get closer to the actual season, which starts in the next couple of months for me, I will go back to two separate biking sessions and two separate running sessions with even much less weight training. I can’t eliminate weights completely as my joints always seem to react negatively when I go without weight training for too long (maybe it is mental).