Consistency Equals Success - CLOSED (Page 12)

Originally posted by dgconner154

Hey everyone,
While this isn't my first tri season, it is my first season trying to follow a focused and consistent training plan for multiple races (hence why I joined this group!). I've never really planned out a whole season of training so I'm hoping for a little feedback. I'm planning on five races this season:

Sprint on 5/17
Sprint on 6/28
Oly on 7/12
Sprint on 8/15
HIM on 9/6

Based on this race schedule my training plan is as follows:

Now - 4/3 - Base
4/4 - 6/27 - Build
Sprint races on 5/17 & 6/28
6/29 - 7/11 - Taper for Oly
7/12 - Oly race
7/13 - 7/17 - Recovery
7/18 - 8/21 - Build
Sprint race 8/15
8/22 - 9/5 Taper for HIM
9/6 - HIM
9/7 - 9/13 - Recovery
After 9/13 I'll just be focusing on a couple late-season running races.

I'm treating all the sprints as training sessions to work on transitions, etc. The Oly will be a good checkpoint to gauge my fitness 8 weeks out from my first HIM, at which point I can start to hone in on a specific race goal.

Thoughts, feedback, suggestions? I think with a focused plan I can see some significant improvement this season!

Thanks

Originally posted by dgconner154

Hey everyone,
While this isn't my first tri season, it is my first season trying to follow a focused and consistent training plan for multiple races (hence why I joined this group!). I've never really planned out a whole season of training so I'm hoping for a little feedback. I'm planning on five races this season:

Sprint on 5/17
Sprint on 6/28
Oly on 7/12
Sprint on 8/15
HIM on 9/6

Based on this race schedule my training plan is as follows:

Now - 4/3 - Base
4/4 - 6/27 - Build
Sprint races on 5/17 & 6/28
6/29 - 7/11 - Taper for Oly
7/12 - Oly race
7/13 - 7/17 - Recovery
7/18 - 8/21 - Build
Sprint race 8/15
8/22 - 9/5 Taper for HIM
9/6 - HIM
9/7 - 9/13 - Recovery
After 9/13 I'll just be focusing on a couple late-season running races.

I'm treating all the sprints as training sessions to work on transitions, etc. The Oly will be a good checkpoint to gauge my fitness 8 weeks out from my first HIM, at which point I can start to hone in on a specific race goal.

Thoughts, feedback, suggestions? I think with a focused plan I can see some significant improvement this season!

Thanks

Originally posted by JoePetto
I think the plan looks doable, but I see some risk in the Oly taper week followed by a rest week (which means you've got two low volume weeks back to back at the time you should be packing on volume for the HIM). You may want to rethink this part of the plan. The way your plan looks to me you are looking roughly at a 20 week HIM training plan. Makes complete sense to have some racing in the mix. I like to add races right before a recovery week, but I would not necessarily recommend two rest/low volume weeks In order to fit in a race. If you are racing on the weekend, put in good volume during the week, take a rest day on a Friday, easy run/bike/swim on Saturday and then race hard on Sunday. In think about structuring your plan, you've got the outline correct in the base and build phase, what's missing is having a peak phase - call it two weeks of Max volume followed by a two week taper. As you set up your phases, you can either go with 2 or 3 weeks of increasing efforts followed by a recovery week.

90 minutes on the trainer - Colosseum

Beth 8 07:42:00
Brian 3 05:30:00
Dan 8 09:33:15
Dave C. 3 03:24:00
DaveL. 8 09:20:00
Dennis 08 09:10:15
Gabe 07 12:06:15
Jackie 3 02:18:06
Jim 7 07:40:10
Joe 7 07:04:11
Kate 5 04:26:40
Kevin 2 01:00:00
Lisa 5 05:52:07
Mark Z. 3 02:10:00
Melissa 6 06:25:25
Mitch 8 06:00:00
Patrick 5 03:47:03
Rachel 4 03:51:26
Scott 5 4:34:00
Seth 5 05:02:00
Todd 4 05:10:00
Troy 2 00:60:25

Originally posted by JoePetto

90' TR Antelope +1 - solid effort, but, Mitch you beat me in terms of IF/TSS.

For those of us doing the ToS I propose that we track total TSS and average IF over on TR team section. Highest combo of TSS and Average IF wins our mutual admiration and glory. There's a way to create discussion threads for the team.

Off to exile to in Buffalo for the next 3 days.

Originally posted by dgconner154


One of the things that limited me last season was difficulty and cramping early in the run. I attribute this mainly to an overall lack of bike fitness, but also to inexperience transitioning from bike to run. I'm planning to incorporate an alternating brick workout like this every few weeks this year.

Originally posted by JoePetto

ToS signup now available:

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If you don't sign up you won't get the opportunity to win additional prizes or qualify for the neat little badge you get on your home page (if you finish). It is also interesting to watch all the people dropout.