2013 Year End Stats
OK so its only 10 months but the season is over and its the first time I have ever recorded every wko . Thought it would be fun to put out some stats for discussion and some charts for the visual picture of a training year.
Total SBR training time Jan-Oct .... 566.15hrs , or 56.65hrs per month, or 13hrs per week.
Swim 113.28hrs, 11.33hrs per month , 2.62hrs per week
Bike 276.68hrs , 27.67hrs per month , 6.39 hrs per week
Run 176.19 hrs , 17.62 hrs per month , 4.07hrs per week
Swim hrs per ZONE... Z1 49.4hrs , Z2 12.05hrs , Z3 10.68hrs , Z4 13.81hrs , Z5 18.61hrs , Z6 8.75hrs
Bike hrs per ZONE..... Z1 57.76hrs , Z2 84.4hrs , Z3 91.76hrs , Z4 31.35hrs , Z5 8.95hrs , Z6 2.46hrs
Run hrs per ZONE..... Z1 75.35hrs , Z2 42.38hrs , Z3 34.56 hrs , Z4 17.83hrs , Z5 5.26 hrs , Z6 .81 hrs
Below is a Chart from RaceDay software which shows training dose or TSS per day. You can clearly see the build , taper , recovery for IMTX on May 18th. Quassy REV3 OLY is on June 1st. IMMT 70.3 is on June 23 with a visible taper/recovery period. The gap of 11days no training is a bike crash resulting in broken clavicle. Followed by slow recovery wko's , a Lobsterman OLY on 9/14 , followed by the build to KONA and finally IMFL .
Below is the distribution of all training per zone in terms of time.
Below is a daily Swim Chart expressed as yardage.
Below is the daily Bike chart expressed as time since so much was on the trainer it shows better as time vs mileage.
Below is the daily Run chart expressed as distance in miles... NOTE: the days in excess of 16 miles were done as split runs... No single run except the IM's exceeded 16 miles.
Some other notes: Only 1 week went over 20hrs and that was due to a OLY race where I moved my longride into the next week. Most of the big weeks peaked around 18hrs and TSS of 900-1200....
Its been 12 days since IMFL and I have taken 7 days completely off...... 5 extremely easy wko's so far totaling a TSS of 111 vs the TSS of 606 @ IMFL.... Recovering and resting like its my job and preparing for the OS!
Would love to see other's stats charts totals or otherwise... Anything I left out? Questions , comments, suggestions , welcome from all!
Comments
I am a new member this year. I have been winging my training up until this point. I saw your results and wanted to say congratulations. You really had a great season. I had only completed 1/2 iron distance races until this year. I had my best 1/2 iron race this year at Tupper Lake and ran a 5:11:10. I also did IMLP my first full. I did that 5 weeks after Tupper and was not as prepared for the distance as I should have been. I did 12:09:09. I am doing IMLP again in 2014 and look to better my time a bunch. The EN training I am doing is very encouraging. My run times are faster than I have ever been. I was looking at your training break down. I noticed that you're listed as retired on IMFL results. Was that amount of training consistent with prior years? What races are you planning for 2014?
Ed Croucher
When will your OS start? Dec?
OK, finished IM AZ, so now I can play. I'm including 365 days' worth of stats, altjhough my year started with NO OS, end of Oct, 2012. Compared to previous years' averages, I ended up doing about 2 hours/ week *less* training time, but with about the same distance cycling, and more swimming and running. Meaning, I was averaging faster running and swimming paces (even though my run and swim speeds are *slower* than, say, five years ago) during workouts - EN intensity instead of simple volume being the key. The other big difference - I no longer bike commute, which is worth about 2000 miles a year, @ 13 mph. So, again, more work, less time (avg 2007-2013 in parens):
I have two different training logs, each of which has all the workouts logged, so I can slice and dice it any way I like, if anyone has questions. I plan on upping my totals in all three sports this year, mainly by following more completely the training plans - I tended to slack off on the running and cycling a bit at times.
Bump to this thread.....New picture of my year with Nov/Dec added.... Would love to see others stats, totals, and thoughts!..... Started of 1/1/14 with 2100yds in the pool, 18 miles on the bike, and 3.65 miles run......
Nice job Tim. There is a reason you were in Kona and those charts show consistency in your training. Not to mention the 6 hour trainer rides early in the season.
Gordon
My totals, just for fun. It was an interesting year since I stopped tri training in June and did run-only until mid-October. You can see the impact of that in the lower bike and swim totals, but you can also see the lower overall total hours…70 hours less in 2013…probably more like 150 less if you count all the overhead of swimming and biking compared to running.
Even in 2012 when I did a ton of biking I'm nowhere close to Tim and Al. I'm not training for full IM distance so my long bike sessions are a lot shorter. I do a TON less swimming, and that's probably more to do with my decision to follow the EN approach to swim ROI to the extreme end of the spectrum. I'd note that in 2013 my race times swimming were virtually identical to my 2012 race times…
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Because of shoulder surgery I could not swim or run much but ride I did!
Run 735 miles
Swim 51,250m
Bike 12,385 (longest ride 270 miles)