My question is if you think I can complete a half ironman without injuries, time is irrelevant.
I have been training for a half-ironman for the last 1,75 years. But I haven’t trained the last 2-3 months and not properly for maybe 3-4 months.
Im a good runner and recently did a half-marathon in 1:31, and I did my first marathon when i was 16 in 4:45, with only little training for it. (am 18 now)
I can swim the 1.9 km around 38-40 min (personal record being 33 min, but that was a half year ago).
This year i’ve only biked a couple of hundred km’s, the longest being 105km (I was pretty wasted after that one).
Up until i stopped training properly I trained around 3-5 times a week with swimming and fitness ( fitness for tri).
So could i do it?
I know i can complete the swim, and Im pretty sure I can manage 90km after that in somewhere around 3:00-3:30.
But if i can run after that, I have no clue about. But running is after all my strongest advantage.
I should probally say that I haven’t swimmed open water yet, but the race is in a quiet lake. And I should get an advantage with a wetsuit. I am however a bit afraid of the headaches i usually get after swimming (chlorine maybe?).
Could you finish? Probably, as long as you pace yourself properly.
Would you enjoy it? That’s a different question.
Depends on when the HIM is: 2 weeks away? 2 months away?
As long as you can get in about a month of bike-to-run bricks in, and you goal is “just to finish” or “just to say I did it,” yes, it sounds like you in shape enough to do so.
Hint: whether or not you finish will likely not depend on your physical shape, but you ability to figure out your nutrition.
When we were your age, we rode, swam and ran all day…no structured training and such.
I think we were banging out something like an half IM distance wise no problem back then during summers (and I sucked at keeping up with the other guys).
Nowadays most kids don’t play that way anymore, so if you only are out there running on pure talent now and then, this will be doable without lasting harm but be a painful experience.
From your accounts you should be fine. Youth overcomes everything.
My question is if you think I can complete a half ironman without injuries, time is irrelevant.
I have been training for a half-ironman for the last 1,75 years. But I haven’t trained the last 2-3 months and not properly for maybe 3-4 months.
Im a good runner and recently did a half-marathon in 1:31, and I did my first marathon when i was 16 in 4:45, with only little training for it. (am 18 now)
I can swim the 1.9 km around 38-40 min (personal record being 33 min, but that was a half year ago).
This year i’ve only biked a couple of hundred km’s, the longest being 105km (I was pretty wasted after that one).
Up until i stopped training properly I trained around 3-5 times a week with swimming and fitness ( fitness for tri).
So could i do it?
I know i can complete the swim, and Im pretty sure I can manage 90km after that in somewhere around 3:00-3:30.
But if i can run after that, I have no clue about. But running is after all my strongest advantage.
I should probally say that I haven’t swimmed open water yet, but the race is in a quiet lake. And I should get an advantage with a wetsuit. I am however a bit afraid of the headaches i usually get after swimming (chlorine maybe?).
Curious what your motivation is here? Are you just interested to see what you can accomplish without proper training?
I don’t understand why you wouldn’t just take your time and do some sprint/oly’s? Or is it that you are a talented athlete who achieved good results without doing all that hard work and just don’t want to?
Depends on when the HIM is: 2 weeks away? 2 months away?
Hint: whether or not you finish will likely not depend on your physical shape, but you ability to figure out your nutrition.
it is the 16’th of August, so i’ve got around 5 weeks of training.
any good websites for nutrition? (I guess you mean during the HIM).
My motivation is that I’ve always admired persons that do extreme sports like Ironman, So I want to do it myself. I decided to do one right after I finished my marathon when i was 16, but the partner I trained with got injured a couple of months ago. That’s why I didn’t really train.
I do however want to do it now, first and foremost because I have other project, so I would have to postpone more than a year + training. But also because everyone knows that im going to do it, and I like to have the mentality that when i decide to do something, I do it.
So the next 4-5 weeks should just include a lot of biking + some small runs after? and then just a few open water swims or do you have any suggestions?
You should be fine - just go out and enjoy yourself. It’s easy to bluff if you’re sensible and don’t try to eat yourself fit when you’re out on the course.
As for training, yeah, a few longish bikes and some regular runs of around 4-8 miles with some strides at the end and you’ll be fine. Maybe a bit of swimming if you feel like it and you’re usually confident in the open water (if not, use the time to get more confident)
Oh, ironman’s not an extreme sport. Jumping off mountains with a sail on your back is an extreme sport. Ironman is a just a long day’s swimming, biking and running at a relatively easy pace
My question is if you think I can complete a half ironman without injuries, time is irrelevant.
Most likely yes. I finished the Door County Half-Iron this past Sunday with very little recent training. Having done no bike or swim training since late last year, 3 weeks ago I began hitting the YMCA pool and stationary bike. I did 4 bike sessions one hour each, and 4 swim sessions culminating in a 45 minute swim. My run training consisted of a few training runs, then the Cell-Com Green Bay Marathon earlier this summer, and then a few shorter runs in the interim.
Sounds like you are in decent shape, have running skills, and are several decades younger than me. Start hitting the bike and swimming and you should finish with some grit and determination. Just don’t expect a great finish time. My time was back of the pack but I had fun.
A warning though - one thing that could derail you is poor open water swim conditions if you are not ready for that sort of thing. The Door County swim Sunday was tough on some folks due to the choppy water. One guy next to me at the first turn just past the pier tapped out on a volunteer’s surfboard and said he was done. Some people were getting pulled out of the water. I was ready for the chop having inoculated myself from that sort of thing with last summer training - didn’t bother me. You mentioned the lake will be smooth, but be prepared just in case. Swimming in a pool is not like open water swimming.
