With only a full week left in this year I’m looking at my training log which I dutifully kept up to date this year. The log was this year’s resolution and it’s the first time I’ve ever kept one. It’s pretty simple; an excel spreadsheet, with a row for each day of the year and columns for SBR daily volumes, time spent training , and columns to check for stretching and strength training, as well as daily weight, and free form text comments on general wellbeing (sore Achilles, new shoes, etc). I’ve got my race dates highlighted and I kept weekly totals for volume. It all makes for some interesting line graphs where it’s pretty easy to correlate information such as hours spent training and weight loss (or gain) and to see the peaks in bike volume during the summer months or swim volume increase during run injuries.
One interesting stat I did was to see how I spent my time training by sport. I summed volumes for all three sports and dividing by each one. If I did this right I came up with: 05% Swim, 76% Bike, and 17% run. How does that ratio sound? Using the same math on Ironman distance I get: 01% Swim, 79% Bike, and 18% run. Comparing my training volume to an Ironman (which is my training focus) it appears I should bike more and swim less. Hmmm, useful or useless?
What other fun things can be had with data from a training log and/or please share how you plan to use this year’s log for planning next year?
Depends on your relative proficiency in the sports. I suck at swimming so I do it a lot. Do you have a measure on intensity? Filtering things like Shoe Mileage can be useful. A Calendar View can also add some perspective.
With only a full week left in this year I’m looking at my training log which I dutifully kept up to date this year. The log was this year’s resolution and it’s the first time I’ve ever kept one. It’s pretty simple; an excel spreadsheet, with a row for each day of the year and columns for SBR daily volumes, time spent training , and columns to check for stretching and strength training, as well as daily weight, and free form text comments on general wellbeing (sore Achilles, new shoes, etc). I’ve got my race dates highlighted and I kept weekly totals for volume. It all makes for some interesting line graphs where it’s pretty easy to correlate information such as hours spent training and weight loss (or gain) and to see the peaks in bike volume during the summer months or swim volume increase during run injuries.
One interesting stat I did was to see how I spent my time training by sport. I summed volumes for all three sports and dividing by each one. If I did this right I came up with: .05% Swim, .76% Bike, and .17% run. How does that ratio sound? Using the same math on Ironman distance I get: .01% Swim, .79% Bike, and .18% run. Comparing my training volume to an Ironman (which is my training focus) it appears I should bike more and swim less. Hmmm, useful or useless?
What other fun things can be had with data from a training log and/or please share how you plan to use this year’s log for planning next year?
What are you doing with the other 99% of your training ;)?
