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Just scared the crap out of myself! Opened my diary to find my 20wk plan officially starts tomorrow - thats only.........20weeks to race day   Where the f*** did the other 7months go when I decided to start this crazy journey?? Unbelievable!!

Very scared and worried all of a sudden!!!!

Hi all,

I finished my first race over the weekend- I filled out the race report for anyone who may be interested. I wouldn't have finished it without you all!

Totally not Tri related, but:

I just found out last night that I'm not going to be able to hunt on my deer lease again this year (land owner got a divorce and had to sell some land).  On the good side I'll save a lot of money  between lease fee, feed, gas, food, and get MORE TRAINING TIME (hard to drink beer and train while at the lease).  On the bad side I'm losing a huge stress reliever, really love to bow hunt (avatar tells it all), my daughter loves to go, and just this past year my wife hunted for the first time and really enjoyed taking her first doe.  I'll look for another one as much for family as myself, but just a little disappointed right now. 

Now back to important Tri Talk

A couple of questions:

1) on the BT training plan it has 3 double days - either run/swim, bike/run or bike/swim. Are these ment to be done back to back or kept seperate? With my schedule its almost impossible to do them seperate - I just try to prioritise one of the sessions. Its not a major problem now but could be down the line.  A:  on your plan calender it says were or not to do it back to back "Brick", here is a copy and paste from your plan on Saturday of Week 2

Swim-Bike Brick

S: open water if possible.

Continuous swim. 1st 200m at RPE 9-10, then settle into race pace

B: 180 minutes at RPE 3-4

So in this case of this one, it says Brick, which would be a swim first followed directly after by a bike;  if it does not say brick then it's pretty much your call and what your schedule will allow.  Some days you might not be able to get in the brick and have to seperate the workouts - it is what it is, but the bricks are really good practice and prepare you for what you'll feel like.  Also if you have to due workouts back to back because of time, it is what it is, just don't hurt yourself in the process

2) any downsides of increasing the long bike duration this early? The plan has 90mins for this weekend. I've been doing 3hrs plus the last couple of weeks so not sure wheteher to drop back or not. For info - the bike is my weakest leg by some distance!  I would say that there is no need to decrease your workouts to match the plan.  If you have been doing more and it is not causing you a problem or does not take away from the other workouts then stay at the same time / distance.  I would not increase even more from where you are now unless you knew it would not affect the other workouts / your health.  I was also going to tell you to take the extra time off the bike to work on whatever you're weakest in, but you said it was the bike.

3) I'm trying to do most of my runs and bike sessions is Z2 - should I vary the shorter ones or will Z2 be better in the long term.  I can't answer this one because I do everything in the simplest terms. 50%, 75%, 100%

Josh will likely be able to provide you with better answers, but just throwing in my .02 

G

Totally not Tri related, but:

I just found out last night that I'm not going to be able to hunt on my deer lease again this year (land owner got a divorce and had to sell some land).  On the good side I'll save a lot of money  between lease fee, feed, gas, food, and get MORE TRAINING TIME (hard to drink beer and train while at the lease).  On the bad side I'm losing a huge stress reliever, really love to bow hunt (avatar tells it all), my daughter loves to go, and just this past year my wife hunted for the first time and really enjoyed taking her first doe.  I'll look for another one as much for family as myself, but just a little disappointed right now. 

Now back to important Tri Talk

A couple of questions:

1) on the BT training plan it has 3 double days - either run/swim, bike/run or bike/swim. Are these ment to be done back to back or kept seperate? With my schedule its almost impossible to do them seperate - I just try to prioritise one of the sessions. Its not a major problem now but could be down the line.

2) any downsides of increasing the long bike duration this early? The plan has 90mins for this weekend. I've been doing 3hrs plus the last couple of weeks so not sure wheteher to drop back or not. For info - the bike is my weakest leg by some distance!

3) I'm trying to do most of my runs and bike sessions is Z2 - should I vary the shorter ones or will Z2 be better in the long term.

sorry for all the questions - just thinking more about stuff now!!

G