Ironman Louisville : Official Thread (Page 27)

Whataya mean 'first A race'?  You can't have two "A" races.  IMKY is your A race and GCT is your B race.....Powerman was your C race.  ;-)

~Mike

Bernabe - 2009-04-08 11:22 AM A question to all IM veterans: This will be my first 'event' of such length, and I'm using the BT IM training plan. This plan calls for up to 15 hours of training a week... and I'm targeting around 13 hours for the actual IM. Then... I'm spreading around the week the same effort that I'll be making in just one day (a hell of a day )... My question is: Where does the 'magic' happens? Will this training allow me to keep 'pushing' beyond the 3 hour mark (my longest event has been an oly) into the 'unknown'? Triki Triki

The magic is in everything else you do thats not on the training plan.  Enjoy the rest days and spread the effort out.  The main difference for me with training for an IM vs an Oly or even a Half was the wear and tear on the body.  Recovery nutrition, stretching, ibuprofen, ice baths and rest all need to be key parts of your strategy outside of what workouts you do each day.  You wont have too many days longer than 4 hours of training, but come July there will be a couple of monsters with up to 6.5 hours at once!  Have faith in the plan, even though you wont ever put in more time than that in a single day.  You really cant because you need to recover and train again the next day.  Oh and nutrition nutrition nutrition.

20.5 weeks

Wow, this is really going to happen isn't it. All winter long it seems forever away but then we start talking about our training plans starting and...woah it is on!!!

I don't know about that one but I am headed to Coach Troy's camp.....

http://www.coachtroy.com/products/item68.cfm

It's cheaper than $595.00 and I personally like Troy's approach to Ironman racing......just me but the value is strong in this camp....

Paul