Subject: RE: Planned Training extra Info MIAIs your first sprint tri coming up at the years-end? The plan you have now will definitely get you there. I would give it a chance if you don't mind the simplicity of it. It looks like you are a new runner and biker aside from a recent 5k? Is that correct? Really, for your first year, all you really need to do is make sure you keep everything in your Zone 1-2 or 'easy' and stick with the minutes...no intervals or speed sessions you need to be concerned with at this point for safety reasons... Now about the swim, you can build in drills into the 'minutes' given in the plan via Total Immersion or some of the articles here: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/index.asp?catid=19 just pick a short and/or medium swim workout to focus on some concepts and use a little bit of the long workout to re-enforce them at the beginning and finish with some long sets. Kevnin Koskella has several 'lessons' that you can build-in to a workout: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/index.asp?authorid=824 Or look at gsmacleod's series: http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=528 and http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/cms/article-detail.asp?articleid=755 Once you finished your first triathlon and have built-up some endurance, then re-evaluate, see what your limiters are and if you want to improve, then a good, detailed plan will go a long way. |