Newbie needs help
I have just joined the EN team, and clearly this website has a lot of information....but I'm quite frankly befuddled and not sure what to do first. I've done my initial survey, and have rec'd my 2 minute audio screencast for my season plan. "The Voice" (aka Rich) tells me to load my "Intermediate Get Faster" plan. I have no idea where to find that. Also, I must have confused you - I'm 18 weeks away from my IM race for 2014. I'm not doing an 18 week plan. Sorry for the confusion - that was my fault.
I just did HIM Florida (70.3) - 4th in my age group, 5 hours and 21 minutes. I am a 7 day trial member and really want to get as much out of this as possible to make the most informed decision about joining - all evidence indicates I should join, but without being able to access my initial Get Faster plan I really have no clue what to do ....
Sorry to be have such newbie issues with this site, but I'm old school and didn't grow up with the internet - these macro/micro threads and blogs are very confusing.
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Go to Training Plan Tab on top, select "my plan", then move/change plan - you can select the plan you need from the drop down menu...
Hope it helps :-)
Anna:
When I do that I get the following message:
"This
is a members-only feature that is not activated during your trial membership."
I am doing the 7 day "trial" to see if EN is what I need before I officially commit but without a clue about what the Intermediate Get Faster Plan is and/or what they would offer me with my specific skills/needs, how do I know?
My motto is "trust but verify" and I certainly "trust" that EN has helped LOTS of people reach their potential, but I need to "verify" that it is the right fit for ME.
Thanks for the suggestion - I don't know how to get a live person to talk me thru this....I'm a little frustrated, because I'm not an idiot, but this website is really confusing to me.
K
Hi Kay, I joined last fall and found it confusing at first too but there is a lot of information and good people here. You will have to join to see the get faster plan but I believe that you can get a full refund in the first 30 days of you decide it's not right for you.
The get faster plan has short swim bike and run (40-60 minutes) with intervals. The weekend bike is usually 2.5 hours and the run is 90 minutes. Both have intervals built into them with some steady zone 2 or 3 work. There are no planned days off but the workouts are prioritized as low, medium, or High so that you can plan accordingly.
I hope this helps.
Hi Kay,
Welcome to your trial. A few things for you:
Loading up the plan: I included instructions on this in my email and but another member has helped you out with that. I'm sure you can understand us not giving you open access to 40+ training plans during your free 7-day trial membership. There are a couple things you can do:
Regardless of which route you choose, we'll give you a full refund of you join, change your mind, and decide to cancel within the first 30 days of membership. Our bottomline is this: we have an extremely high quality community of athletes, training plans, and resources. We only want people in this space who've had every opportunity to decide if we are a good fit for each other so we make it very easy to leave, at any time, no questions asked, no minimum commitment.
Welcome and good luck!
Hi Kay...you've come to the right place if you want to get faster, race smarter. The basic premise of EN is that us time-constraigned age groupers need to do quality workouts, not quantity of time. So lots of intervals. Only when you get to the IM build do you get longer workouts. It has worked well for me (been an EN member since 2010) for 3 IMs and I've gone faster in each IM following the EN plan.
If you have 18 weeks to your IM, I suggest doing the 6 week Get Faster Plan, then load up the 12 IM plan. Mark is right about the info and refund. Coaches Rich and Patrick make it easy for people to leave if they want to, but few do.
I think the best thing about EN is the support you get from the other members. You can literally get just about any training, racing, gear, nutrition, injury question you have answer by someone on the team with hours if not minutes. And the team vibe at races is really cool with usually 30-40 ENers racing at each N American IM. You see your teammates all over the course and everybody encorages each other.
Hi Kay (and everyone else reading
)
Your Triathlon Season RoadMap (TSR) is below:
Please follow that guidance, as well as the screencast and my notes for you in the email.
And, technically, the Macro Forum, where you posted this thread, is a place for you and I have to 1 on 1 conversations about big picture, season planning stuff. The other members should have waited for me to answer your question, but the Team is often so Johnny on the Spot with helping each other that they forget