Running & Triathlon plans
Only 5 weeks to go before the triathlon. My overall cardiovascular conditioning is improving, but my swim and bike training is lagging, so I wrote out a plan for the next five weeks.
I ran well this weekend. Saturday morning ran an easy 6 miles, maybe around 8:30 to 9:15 min/mile pace. Sunday morning I ran 7 miles, with the goal of running a three mile tempo run at 7:15 min/mile pace. I was on pace at 2 miles, then my Garmin stopped, throwing me off for the last mile, and forcing me to reset it. I followed up with a half mile at about the same pace, and then after about a mile of recovery run ran a final mile in 6:47. Overall pace over 7 miles was around 8:14 min/mile.
I plan to run either a 5K or 10K two weeks from now. I hope to convince the kids to come along and participate in the 1/2 mile fun run (assuming the missus is willing to watch over them while dad gets ready for his race).
I’m so close to the triathlon that I’m not going to fret too much about speed. In addition to continuing my running I’m going to try to get a few long (1.5 hour to 2 hour) bike rides in, to get my body acclimated to endurance cycling, and also some long swims (around 1 hour) and a few time trials around race distance.
It’s going to be interesting.
May 5, 2008 at 4:37 pm
You definitely need to balance out your training. You want to arrive at the run with enough in your tank to excel at your forte. Good luck