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Trigirl67Trigirl67
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This is my first thread since becoming a member.  Hope I'm doing this correctly.  Anyway.....I'm doing IMCoz in December and a Olympic in September.  Do you recommend more races to establish race pace (I want to decrease my IM time) or just stay focused on my IM training? 

Second question - Do you have any IM race strategy podcasts that are not specific to a certain race?  Not many people from here seem do be doing IMCoz except for one other EN athlete. 

Third and final question....my bike testing for this week is for Power Test  is there one for HR test that I can substitute.  I don't train with a power meter.

Thank you!!!

Kimberly Diaz

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  • Coach RichCoach Rich
    Hi Kimberly,



    Please see the Season Plan I made for you last week, it should be in your email inbox if you haven't seen it.

    You don't "need" to race, but races a good to have on the calendar as a means of giving you short term items to focus on vs thinking about IM training for months and months. So the reason why I recommended you do that Sept Oly as an A vs C-race is that you for realz train for it and think about it and hopefully decrease the amount of time you are 100% focused on IMFL. Over the years I've seen this risk of burnout be very high with IMFL and AZ athletes. So, with that mind, doing other races between now and that Oly would be a good idea also, especially one in early August, at the end of the Get Faster plan, so that ^this^ race becomes the focus of your GF block.



    We have tons and tons of race execution information. See the Race Execution section of the Wiki.

    Bike Test: we have an HR bike test scheduled for you Tues, see screenshot below. If you missed it, just do it on Saturday instead of the scheduled workout. 

  • Trigirl67Trigirl67
    Rich
    Where do I find the GF plan to load?

    Kimberly
  • Coach RichCoach Rich
    It lives under the Move/Change My Training Plan link at the top of your training plan page:

    http://members.endurancenation.us/TrainingPlan.aspx

    The Season Plan email I sent you includes a screencast showing you how to upload it, if you need help.
  • Trigirl67Trigirl67
    Was just going let you know I found it but you were too speedy to reply. Thx
  • Trigirl67Trigirl67
    Need some help.....
    I am in week 3 of my GF plan and according to my season road map I am to start my IM advanced training plan on August 4th for IMCoz. Here is the life altering event that just occurred.

    My husband is being relocated to Denver Colorado in September. We are leaving on Sept 1st and plan to arrive in Denver late on the 3rd. Here are my questions.

    1. How do I train during those traveling days? (A run around the hotel parking lot perhaps??)
    2. What kind of adjustments will I need to make moving from sea-level Florida to Mile high city and still maintain my IM training plan?

    IMCOz was supposed to be my IM to truly race so I don't want this move to set me too far back. Realistically I know there will be set backs but I want to try to attack them head on to minimize the bad affects. So, I need help strategizing this big change.

    Thanks so much!!

    Kimberly
  • Coach RichCoach Rich

    Kimberly,

    No need, seriously, to consider what if's for 3-days of friction in September for a race in November. You have sooooo much time before you need to be concerned about it...which is to say this is frankly a non-issue . Short answer is, yes, getting in a run on those days would be great.

    Regarding moving to altitude: that's a simple issue we'll address when you get there and get settled. You will likely need to do some testing once you get there to set new training zones, especially if you're training with power and pace, but that's the only change required. No changes needed to your plan, just need to recalibrate-sorta your training zones for altitude vs sea level.  

  • Trigirl67Trigirl67

    Thanks Rich.

    I know living in CO will provide me with better training opportunities so that is a plus.  I just didn't want anything to mess up this IM training but Life is constantly changing that is one thing that is guaranteed. 

    Thanks for the advice.

    K

  • Coach RichCoach Rich
    Yep...and our job is to help you keep this in perspective. Moving your family across the country is a very, very big item and like I said, 3 days of friction in route to your IM is a complete non-issue, come race day :-)
  • Trigirl67Trigirl67
    I've been trying to upload a photo to my profile and can't seem to figure out how to do it. It shows in my "edit profile" but I still just have a head with a question mark. Can you tell me what I'm doing incorrectly. I did check out the wiki but it seems to be a slightly different format than is currently being used.
    Thanks
    Kimberly
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