What is your monster training weekend like?

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I don’t usually subscribe to the “monster training weekend” thing…most of my weekends are pretty tame and will consistently include a Sat long ride (maybe with a OW swim beforehand and/or short transition run…only in season though) then on Sun a med-length run with hill reps and 60min recovery spin. That’s my bread & butter weekend I’ll do maybe 42 weeks of the year. I find it rather amusing the folks who train themselves into the ground building huge fitness reserves, then fall apart on the big day by completely disregarding the most important, and woefully overlooked, factor for racing - executing to plan (nutrition, pacing, effort).

That said, in prep for IMNZ my biggest “weekend” went like this:

Fri: race pace course simulation - 115km ride (3:30) then 90min run (18km), 1000m recovery swim (2x500 build)
Sat: recovery day - 4.5km course swim, 45min trail run
Sun: easy course ride - 180km (5:45) then 10min easy run

This was 3 weekends out from the race, I napped well during the day and ate good recovery nutrition so I finished the last session still feeling strong, fresh and excited about the race ahead…it was good for a 10:09 debut IM. The more conservative training weekends described above were good for a 4:31 HIM in the middle of this IM build.

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exactly.

Maybe we can get our own forum?? :slight_smile:

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***"***Finally - doing big volume training doesn’t always have to be for the express purpose of getting faster - sometimes, it can be for the simple reason of enjoying biking and running long distances day after day."

Thanks guys…that’s really what it is all about…and the friendships forged during some of that training.
Winter: Sat AM 60 min run+2 hour XC ski, PM 60 min XC ski+30 min bike, Sun: 40 min run+4 hour XC ski (~9 hours) Summer: Sat: 40 min swim+200K bike+30 min run, Sunday 2 hour run+4 hour ride+30 min run (~15 hours)
Mega vertical on both days in the winter (~6000 feet total) and summer (~10000-15000 ft total)

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I’m in, but I don’t think Dan will set up a new forum for just me, you, and Dev :slight_smile:
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Agree the rest of the year save for a few weeks of down time (generally only 2 or 3) I tend to be in the 11-12hr range and then build as a race gets close.

At the end of the day I really like racing but I absolutely love training typically regardless of the weather though I am truly done with this winter. The great people that I get to train with is what makes it easy for me to do.

4 more weeks and I get to ride my brains out for 6 days around Greeville, SC, I can’t wait, it is a fantastic place to ride.

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Slowman needs to set up the 900 training hours per year forum :-)…OK this year, I promise to be good, do more intensity and rest more and keep it closer to 750 hours (the ~2 hours per day plan).

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I make all the Monters get up at 5am, and get into a line.

Heels together, toes out at a 45 degree angle, straight back, thumbs along the seams of their trousers, chin down, and eyes ahead.

Then I yell at them, calling them things like “Private Lizard Sh*t”.

If one of their talons isn’t sharpened, they’re down and giving me 20.

Then I have them run in formation for 2 hours before breakfast.

They get 5 minutes to eat and it’s off the to the obstacle course.

I will stand on top of a wall and jeer at the fat monsters who are too scared to climb.

3 more hours of low intensity running with all their gear on. They do dirty sound offs about eskimo women. They get some ration along the way–goo & water only.

Then they have to crawl across a field while I shoot above their heads. People shoot at Monsters, they have to get used to it.

They have another 5 minutes to eat their other meal. They have Endurox or Chocolate milk to drink.

Late in the afternoon, they are doing technically specific Monster skill work. Hiding, scaring, poucing, slashing, biting, etc…

I inspect their foot lockers for Jelly donuts at night. everyone has to do pushups if I find any.

Lights out at 10pm

Repeat on Sunday.

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Looks like a recipee for an “Irontour” Weekend. In my buildup for IMArizona, last weekend was a cycle specific weekend. Friday swam 3100 metres cycled 1.75 hours (on trainer); Saturday swam 4300 metres, biked 3.5 hours (on trainer); Sunday biked 5 hours (on trainer), ran 8 kms and did leg weights for 30 minutes. 14 hours total (3 days), 21 for the week. This weekend will be a little bigger volume, a week tomorrow I start my taper. As far as past results, I believe you are only as good as your next race. My past results are okay, but I’m an old man :frowning:

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Sorry folks but comparing training hours or miles logged doesn’t mean much (see sig. line below). Show me the training forum with guys who go sub 10 IM, sub 4:30 1/2IM, sub 2 Oly. Results count, training logs don’t…unless of course your goals are something other than improving at this sport.

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That would certainly explain all your TNO postings… :slight_smile:

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I am not very hard core tho.

Don’t sell yourself short. That is hardcore. I know top pros who put in less than that on a big weekend! :slight_smile:

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this year is a ways off from previous…

but i’m working back to the long indoor days of 1hr swim, 1hr bike, 1hr run, then go back and do it over again.

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Sat: 3:20 run @ stand-alone marathon pace (7:00/mi)
Sun: 2.4 mi. ocean swim (~1:45 min/100) , 6:30 bike (light aerobic), 1h recovery run
Mon: rest

I work Saturdays so I have to reverse the generic big workout order. Sunday riding also avoids large pelotons of newbs.

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Fleck…did you hear that…Konaexpress says that you are only as good as your next race…seems like those 9:0x times are long expired and you need to make a comeback…it also sounds like Konaexpress has put the IMFLA 2007 9:44 into the time expired category and planning some wupp-ass for Arizona!!!

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Konaexpress says that you are only as good as your next race…

What if there is no, next race! :slight_smile:

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Sat: 3:20 run @ stand-alone marathon pace (7:00/mi)

3:20 at 3:03 marathon pace…~28 miles at 26.2 mile race pace…that’s a pretty hard core session. Does speedwork include mile repeats at 800m race pace?

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I’m far from you nut cases! My biggest weekend ever was in prep for IMC last summer:
Saturday: 6:45 ride (101 miles), followed by a 4-mile run.
Sunday: Sunday has always been my day off from training, so at the most I’ll go surfing, which I do nearly every day anyway.
If I trained as much on the weekend as some of you guys, I’d be divorced by now!

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“Sat: 3:20 run @ stand-alone marathon pace (7:00/mi)” Wow!

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I’m in, but I don’t think Dan will set up a new forum for just me, you, and Dev :slight_smile:

          Hey guys,can I play too?You know that I am right there with you on this one.I love the long,long days on the road hurting and falling apart all over the place.It's awesome fun!!I don't do it to impress anyone but my imaginary friends and as I'm still getting beaten by girls in Ironman I don't think I'm going to impress anyone in the near future.I have come first and last in races and none of those performances made me any money or got me laid.I must just be crazy or just flat out having fun,I suspect it's a little of both.
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Fleck , then…aparently you are no good!!! You can’t just keep living vicariously through the results of Miss P!

Ultratriguy, yes, we need the “overtraining for the heck of it forum”…then again, I thought that was what ST was it seems like it is forum for guys in the lab coats throwing studies at one another !