Critique My Training Schedule

Triathlon Forum
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Background: I am a tri “vet” with a few IMs under my belt and numerous sprint tris. I am toward FOP in age group in local races. I am competing in mostly sprints this summer with a local century race/ride in August and the Chicago Marathon in Ocotber. Bike is my strongest followed by swimming then the run is my weak link. I am a lawyer in a small firm and have a 1.5 year old. My wife is very understanding but I do not have carte blanche training time. Here’s my current protocol:

Mon: Run 45 min + swim 45 min

tues: brick intervals @ track

wed: EZ Run 45 min + swim 45 min

thurs: Ride 1-2 hours + 10 min T-Run

Fri: Hard Hilly Run (1 hr) + EZ swim

Sat: 3-5 hour Ride + 30 min T-Run

Sun: flexible/open/rest

Any thoughts would help tremendously

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When you say run, do you mean you go out, and run for 45 minutes? Or do you mean that is how much time you have to run total?

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Those are times I am actually doing/completing . . . not time available

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Maybe a 2nd rest day in the week?? On Wednesdays maybe either run or swin, but not both??

JB

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what do you mean by brick intervals?
I interpet that as 5 k bike, 1 k run, decend the run times?
you also should think about some tempo/fartleg work… this is what i think (using your time constraints and how you have your week set up)

mon - swim (1 hour, pace work), run - 30 min ez
tue - brick workout (this would be a key/hard workout - ex (5*(4 km bike, 1 km run, decend the run times by 5 sec to 5 k time -10 sec)
wen - swim (1 hour), run 30 min ez (skip if feeling shitty)
thus - run (tempo work/or your hilly route), ride (pm) - 1 to 2 hours
fri - swim (1 hour)
sat - ride (long) + run (ez endurance)

sun - off

  • i realize that thurs is 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours of work… a bit long, but if you run in the morning it should affect you that much…
    i dunno about intensities for swimming, most work should be working on pace work, with a bit of speed thrown in… (i.e. - mon pace work, wen pace, fri- speed)
    this should correspond to weekly totals of ~9 k swimming, 25-30 k running, ~150 km biking?
    anyhow… hope it helps?

-david