2010: My Sked, your thoughts

Dave Tallo

As always, I'd appreciate any input or advice from the collective wisdom of EN. 

Goal:

Shoot for a Kona Spot.   

 

Plan:

Two kicks at the can: IMReg and IMCan. 

1. Register for IM Regensburg

2. Qualify for IM Canada at Peterborough HIM

 

Other stuff:

-This is a 30,000 feet, structure of year scaffold only.  I’ll get to thinking about focuses, limiters, skills blocks, etc in the days ahead.

-I’d like to get a big bike week (or two) in Tucson done in March / April, if only to have a Cool Event to look forward to during the Canadian winter.  In past experience, this big week could have an impact on the quality of the week immediately following, but on balance, it's worth it.     

-I acknowledge the timing of the HIM – week 8 of IM training - is suboptimal.  I’ve tried to mitigate this by making the IM training season a 13-week footprint in case I need to create a recovery buffer week somewhere in there. If not, it’s another week of work.  

-I’ve tossed in a few ‘gimmie’ weeks here and there for rest, sickness or other unanticipated stuff.  

-IM Reg and IM Canada are close. But I’m actaully okay at executing back-to-back IMs, for whatever reason.

-If I need another week of downtime, i'll start Dec 14.   

Week of 7-Dec	offseason 1
14-Dec	offseason 2
21-Dec	offseason 3
28-Dec	offseason 4
4-Jan	offseason 5
11-Jan	offseason 6
18-Jan	offseason 7
25-Jan	offseason 8
1-Feb	offseason 9
8-Feb	offseason 10
15-Feb	offseason 11
22-Feb	offseason 12
1-Mar	offseason 13
8-Mar	offseason 14
15-Mar	offseason 15
22-Mar	offseason 16
29-Mar	offseason 17	Tucson BBW
5-Apr	offseason 18	Tucson BBW
12-Apr	offseason 19
19-Apr	offseason 20
26-Apr	transition
3-May	Train 0
10-May	Train 1
17-May	Train 2
24-May	Train 3
31-May	Train 4
7-Jun	Train 5
14-Jun	Train 6
21-Jun	Train 7
28-Jun	Train 8	HIM Peterborough
5-Jul	Train 9
12-Jul	Train 10
19-Jul	Train 11
26-Jul	Train 12	IM Regenberg
2-Aug	transition
9-Aug	Train 10
16-Aug	Train 11
23-Aug	Train 12	IM Canada

 

 Your thoughts?  

Tom Glynn

Wow, those two IMs are pretty close together! Racing Peterborough, are you from Toronto/Ottawa area? If so, lots of indoor time, probably most of the offseason I'd guess. Pretty hard to get in long rides until your 12 week IM plan starts. Doable, but that's a lot of trainer / treadmill time. Gets harder every weekend it rains too. How close have you been to a Kona slot in the past? What's your weak spot between s/b/r and are you going to work on this as you get into details?

tom

Dave Tallo

Posted By Tom Glynn on 30 Nov 2009 04:57 PM

Wow, those two IMs are pretty close together!

Yeppers.  Can't see any alternatives, tho - unless i look at CdA , Nice or Japan.   Nice damn near killed me when i did it, Japan is too far and too rich for my blood  and CdA is down to community slots.  I know ... if you wanna play, you gotta pay, but I'm trying to spread my scarce resources across a few destination races this year.  

Racing Peterborough, are you from Toronto/Ottawa area?

Downtown Toronto.  So Peterborough race admin is get in the car at 5:00 race morning, drive a bit further than i normally would for a long ride, and do the race.  All the Muskoka long course IM Canada slots are being transferred to Peterborough this year on account of the G8 summit in Huntsville, which is actually a good thing - I like that course.   

If so, lots of indoor time, probably most of the offseason I'd guess. Pretty hard to get in long rides until your 12 week IM plan starts. Doable, but that's a lot of trainer / treadmill time. Gets harder every weekend it rains too.

Yep.  Running is outdoor year round, but outdoor riding won't begin until week of March 16 (Arizona Big Bike Week).  a few sketchy weekends in April in May, though. You're right there.   

How close have you been to a Kona slot in the past? What's your weak spot between s/b/r and are you going to work on this as you get into details?

Missed Kona slots by two-something minutes in Louisville and 5-7 minutes in Arizona.  So it's close (but for those that have been pipped by 1-2 seconds for a spot, these spreads are a lifetime!). 

I'll start to increase the grandularity of the SBR limiter picture once I start to roll out my season and get some serious reflecting done on '09.  

tom

 

Coach Rich

Dave,

I think you should consider "not count" the BBW stuff in AZ as part of the OS training. So that bit of your schedule would look like:

OS 16

Tucson

Tucson

OS 17

OS 18

OS 19

OS 20

By the time you're into that bit of the schedule you'll be outside and can add volume to the regular OS workouts, to get sorta a head start on the IM training. For you, I think you only "need" about 10wks of focused IM training, especially given the fact that you'll be ending the OS outside (= a bit more volume) and you have that Tucson stuff scheduled.

The key to getting faster is the OS, not necessarily the IM training. As PnI work to get people set up for next year, we really plan to keep as many people as possible in the OS for as long as possible. The speed gains are just too good.