Training Plan Question......
I just finished a 70.3 and I'm looking to do another in 8 weeks. Should I just transition to the next plan or do the post half iron transition plan? Thanks in advance for the replies.
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My rule of thumb is, Take it easy for as many days as hours you spent racing. The key here, is how hard did you run? If you set a PR or something like that on the run, then eg, take two days off, swim on the third, bike (easy-ish) on the fourth, and run a little on the fifth, then ramp back up over the next week into to half IM plan. If you didn't run very hard, or even walked some, then you can probably advance that schedule a bit.
For reference, I just did an 8.5 hour race on Sat May 4 (1.5K/113K/30K). Now, I am looking at an IM on Jun 9. I have done just fine by doing nothing Sun/Mon/Tue (well, walked around Paris and Airports), lifted weights Wed, swam Thurs, Biked Fri, Bike + ran on Saturday & Sunday, and by Monday, was back into three weeks of IM training before my one-week taper.
It's a bit scary at first, feeling like I don't have enough time to properly train for my next race, but I;ve found that the two week "down time" (taper plus post-race recovery) is not really subtractive to the previous training; it helps consolidate it a bit, as long as I honor the need to recover from a serious run effort.
Thanks @Al Truscott ! That's kind of what I was thinking about doing. Swim was a 37.51 (PR), Bike was a 2:56:44 (PR) and the run was a2:01:24 (9:16 pace). Not happy with the run but it's a 9-10 min PR for me. I've been faster in training but it was a very warm run. Onward!!
@Keith Shireman - if you don't have a coaches thread for yourself, start one in the Coaching Forum and get @Coach Patrick to work for you!!! Al's answer is spot on (and frankly he may even know more than Coach, but trust your coach!
Thank you @scott dinhofer !!