Subject: RE: Swimming and running lagging behind cycling That is yes to the 4X swim and run plan. The swim and run will catch up a lot faster if you put more time into them than if you stick with the balanced approach. My problem is that my cycling and swimming lag behind my running. I was doing double my race distance each week in each discipline with three sessions in each area (Two short and one long work out in each). I went on a four month bike focus when I did 4 sessions on the bike a week (three short one long) and 2 running sessions that we active recovery (both short). With the bike focus I saw a lot of improvement in that area. After the bike focus I went back to a three sessions in every sport and my run jumped right back to where I left off in just a few weeks and I was able to maintain all the gain on the bike. I now am doing 2 swim sessions a week but have increased the volume from from 2 time my race distance to 3 times my race distance so each swim session is 150% race distance. rather than 65-70% the race distance. The swim is improving. So... I started at 2 time my race distance in every sport over three sessions. I now have dropped my running by 25% and increased my swimming by 50%. When I was doing my bike focus the running dropped by about 50%. I don't think that my bike and swimming would have progress as much as they have if I had kept everything at 2x the race distance and a three sessions each a week. My running hasn't been hurt at all. It comes easiest to me so it has kept up with less training required in that area. |