Beer Drinkers Appreciation Society (BDAS) 2023 Mentor Group - ALWAYS OPEN (Page 73)

Hmmmm...interesting and not something I've thought of, though I am a big proponent of frequency in running and had my best results running 5x/week.  I'll have to play around with scheduling to see how that would work.

I'm 100% aligned with corgi measurements - they're quick little buggers and herding dogs are always cool. 

Today was a double (triple?) with a 2500 swim finally feeling the water again and then working through a weekly progression of harder 1' intervals on the bike at lunchtime, which cracked me today on the last interval.  Got to 6 x 1' @ 135% before losing it today, so I'll give it another go next week.  Not even sure what this is supposed to benefit, just something to shoot for in December/January on the trainer LOL.  PT went well - they're given me some pretty hard hip/core workouts which are helping I think.

Originally posted by bulfrog

Originally posted by jmhpsu93 and had my best results running 5x/week. 

From my very uneducated position, that statement answers the question for yourself I think.

But it will be a cycling build, just trying to not lose a ton of run fitness.  Here's the view of my weekly plan:

Wednesday and Friday are morning/lunch doubles, Saturday is Bikram Yoga. 

Tuesday:  45 min ride with anaerobic intervals
Wednesday:  1 hour ride with threshold / VO2 max intervals
Thursday:  22 min warmup
Friday:  endurance ride, building to two hours
Sunday:  45 minutes Z2 on the Stealth (tri bike) before my long run

I'd be pretty pressed time-wise to squeeze in another run somewhere - MAYBE Wednesday.

Nice run totals this year, everyone.  Measured in corgis or otherwise. 

Originally posted by drfoodlove

Originally posted by Rollergirl Here’s my 2023 numbers Run 1076 km 135:36 hours Bike 1696 km (trainer excluded) 141 hours (trainer included) Swim 42.13 km. Garmin doesn’t give me total time. Strength, 18h45- embarrassing not sure about the values in corgis, it's hard enough not converting to miles

solid year! Also...I hearby declare the corgi to be our new, mutual unit of measure. If we're gonna convert from miles to km and m to yds, why not do it to corgis! 1 corgi=0.61m/0.67yds

I also think we should allow for some metric-style prefixes, like kilocorgis, to describe longer distances for runs and rides.

@Gretchen:  I like your training plan...seven months is probably a little long but with your run focus for the first three months I think that'll change things up enough to manage.  I would definitely add a transition week after the marathon with just getting-healthy training, otherwise I'd be worried about never getting out of that hole and impacting your IM training.  Just Coach Mike's input here, but that's also coming from someone who has run himself into two major injuries in the past 15 years, so there's that. 

A strong start to 2024 continues for me with a tempo run and "legs day" at the gym yesterday, then this morning 2,000 corgis in the pool with some upper body strength training, which will be followed by a 30-minute ride on The Stealth Bomber and a short frequency run at lunch.  Finally I'll go beat myself up in PT again this afternoon.  Happy Friday!

@Nicole...re:  tracking everything.  I have logs going back almost 15 years here on BT, but the best training tracking platform IMO is Training Peaks.  Integrates seamlessly with Garmin and the TSS (Training Stress Score) is a great measurement to track progress.  You have to pay for something to have good planning capabilities, but if you're just tracking "hey I did this, how much was it?" TP will do that for you.  You can also buy relatively inexpensive training plans from good coaches (I think that's what Gretchen uses). 

Really good advice. 

That's 25 kcs, please.  Geez, get the nomenclature right.  <eyeroll emoji>