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As for my training, I will say that the time has come where I need to get serious about my run. For those that have heard me preach, you know that I am not a huge advocate for most triathletes having a heavy focus on running. It just doesn't make sense in my opinion, and I myself have followed my own advice as I have worked tirelessly on my swim and bike. However, I have reached a point where the lowest hanging fruit is probably going to come from the run. Yes there are still improvements that can be made with the swim and bike, but I'm going to focus more and more attention on the run and that started this week. Now, my Achilles is no where back to 100%, but it is much better than say in June-July and I feel comfortable bumping up my mileage as I gear up for running centric races including Ironman Florida and Ironman Arizona. Given that last 5 years have been focused on swimming and biking it will be interesting to see if I can make a similar transformation to my run. We shall see.
Here are my weekly swim, bike, and run totals:
Total: 177 Miles / 19 hours 15 minutes
Swim: 22,200 yards / ~13 miles / 6 hours 08 minutes
Bike: 121 miles / 7 hours 31 minutes
Run: 43 miles / 5 hours 33 minutes
Core: 0 sessions / 0 hours 0 minutes
Weight: N/A
Body Fat: N/A
Calories Consumed: N/A
Calories Burned: N/A
Curious why you feel that triathletes shouldn't focus a lot on the run
ReplyDeleteI won't go into too much depth here but simply because there is much lower hanging fruit with the swim, and many people just end up nuking their run legs on the bike and can't use all that run fitness by the time they get to the run. These are generalizations obviously, and some people get into the sport through swimming. Lastly, it is the run that is most likely to get people injured.
ReplyDeleteGood luck. I would have eaten the Power Bar Gel thingys off the wrapper. Kinda like when a candy bar melts. I'm shameless like that though :)
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