What about nutrition during training? Gels, bars, gummies, things like that? Yes, it’s time you started to think about these sorts of things.
by Dan Empfield, October 5, 2009
You’re more than halfway to the goal. You could certainly do a triathlon right now. In fact, you’d probably be fitter right now than plenty of people who’re going to be doing the race with you. Isn’t it a great feeling to be getting fit?
What is the most important muscle in your body? Of course you know the answer to this. It’s your heart. That thing is just one big muscle, and when you think about it, it’s pretty miraculous.
As you will see herein, the theme this week is “Let’s explore!” In so doing, you’ll be using your fitness to do some good things for your mind and your body.
You’re more than a third of the way to the goal. In a couple of weeks you’ll be halfway to the goal. You could probably do a triathlon right now and survive.
We’ve added some long sessions: one long run (1 hour) and one ride in which we’re looking for a given distance to be covered (30 miles). You’re entering the big time!
Your building fitness and ability in all three sports now. Let’s talk about how swim, bike and run relate to each other in terms of time spent and fitness gained.
These are the first 2 weeks of an 8-week Ironman campaign, the goal of these weeks being the fitness required to step up to subsequent weeks’ longer workloads.
This is the week you’re finally firing on all eight cylinders. By now you’ve got all the meaningful paraphernalia you need for all three sports, and you’re ready to start riding. Good, because your riding starts this week.
The heart of this 8-week Ironman campaign, weeks 3 thru 5, is not designed to get you ready for the race, rather for the ultimate “indicator” workouts prior to the taper.
The problem with writing a training plan is the fear that somebody might follow it. That’s the case here, with the program we’re going to present. It’s a custom program built and followed by a particular athlete.
Running and swimming? Good, those are the most important events to master. But you want to start riding the bike, don’t you? Let’s talk about that.
In the first two weeks we’ve covered a lot of ground. You’ve gotten yourself going, and you’re sort-of kind-of sputtering along in two of triathlon’s three events: the swim and the run.
