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Plan Selection Upon Return To EN

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Hello crowd, just returned to EN after a year + away. It is great to be back. I did train and race entire time. These questions will go to coaches, I will fill out the season survey, I already engaged one our WSMs, Matt Aaronson in advice I am seeking. I thought I get your angles first before I proceed with coaches.

I see many developments with plans and have been reading about details in WIKI and elsewhere on the site.

1. Can somebody summarize some differences between these plans:

* New 2013 OS plans vs. SC plans that were developed couple of years ago. I will be racing SC races all the way through Sept.1.

*What is a GF= get faster plan?

2. My season starts on 05/18 with KS5150, than june has no races, July and August have one SC race each month, Sept HyVee 5150 hopefully, contemplating whether to than do Rev3 Branson 09/22 or back to Soma Half   10/22.

I did train all winter, ran a lot, bike kept in mx mode, no progress in FTP, flat, for obvious reasons. Hardly swam at all.

I have to increase FTP and VDOT primarily as a goal, if I can sneak in an SC race here and there, all of them are C races.

Branson vs. Soma purely depends what I can prepare myself better for, so training plan can dictate which race I enter.

3. Based on above, do I take OS plan or SC plan, plain and simple. Whichever I choose I will stay maximum time for get faster/ higher FTP reasons than drop into 12 weeks or less HIM plan. I will have to swim as it is racing season. OS has no swim, I can add my own on Mon and Fri, or SC with swim included..........or GF plans if I know what that is.

Matt says SC plan, also using 5MH for bike mid week. What do you say.

I am still after a sub 2:15 Olympic race, ugh....last year 2:16 on a rolling course, image, maybe this year....

2011 Soma was ~ 4:40

2011 Branson ~5:05

Thank you

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