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Running:  Mostly Easy, sometimes hard.

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Swimming:  Mostly hard, sometimes easy.

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Nope.  I came back from an injury at the end of March (Ran a few times in Dec, Jan, none in Feb).  Since then, I have been running 5-6 days per week just easy.  I think I can count on 1 hand how many times I pushed a run in that time.  I had built to only a 12.5km long run by the time of my half iron race in mid-July because I was being cautious.  I ended up being able to run the 20km of the half iron in less than one minute slower than my open HM time.  It works.

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RE: Aerobic zone, am i wasting my time?

Nope.  I came back from an injury at the end of March (Ran a few times in Dec, Jan, none in Feb).  Since then, I have been running 5-6 days per week just easy.  I think I can count on 1 hand how many times I pushed a run in that time.  I had built to only a 12.5km long run by the time of my half iron race in mid-July because I was being cautious.  I ended up being able to run the 20km of the half iron in less than one minute slower than my open HM time.  It works.




sounds good to me. just got done with my training sesh today. dialing down the intensity. increasing volume slowly. looking forward to see where this takes me over the next 12 weeks. just want to make sure im taking the right approach to tri training. im new
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If you want to train using HR, then you need to test to establish your zones, not use an arbitrary formula. There are several formulae around and will all give you different results but at the end of the day, they will give results that work for some while being too high for others and too low for others. You need to train based on your physiology which means you need to test if you want to use HR to guide your training.

You can also use the conversation test as described earlier; if you can speak full setences, that's easy. If you're huffing and puffing, its not.

Also, if you have a run race result, run calculators can be used to give a good indication of paces for various intensities that you could also use.

Probably also worth nothing that treadmill paces can differ wildly so unless you are always running on the same one, thwn take the pace information with a grain of salt. Train by intensity and time.

As mentioned earleir, run lots, mostly easy, sometimes fast. For a beginner, that sometimes is often best just left for race day.

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