I seem to be hitting a ceiling which I’ve hit in past triathlon seasons. In spite of best intentions and plans, I can’t seem to push too far above 10 hours per week of training. This would probably concern me a lot more if I hadn’t already completed this distance with that amount of training. In the past, injury had kept me below ten hours, actually. Now, while still injury free and with the experience of past seasons , I’m not too worried about it, but wonder if I would somehow really break through if I had the stamina/time to rest for longer training weeks.
I remember seeing a book a few years back called something like “Do a Triathlon With Just 10 Hours per Week Training (did a quick google but didn’t come up with the actual book).” At first I was heartened. Then I looked more closely and saw the fine print: For an Olympic Distance tri! Then I scoffed. This book ain’t going to help the Backpacker.
My first real test will be the half iron race I have in August, which I’ve decided is a key race for me to participate in. It may mean jettisoning the two or three other Olympic distance races, which will be disappointing, but this is about an iron distance tri and Olympic distance tris are just gravy.
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Well...I say, if you've successfully completed an Iron distance on that amount of training then why fix something that ain't broke!
At some point you'll get over the 10 hour hump if it's something your body can handle. I never thought I would break 30 miles a week of running and I did this time around. We'll see if the extra mileage did actually help.
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