Saturday, July 29, 2006

Quarterly mileage and training time review


This is ostensibly a triathlon training blog, so at least every one in a while I suppose I should review my training totals.

The simplest and easiest measure for triathlon training is weekly hours of training.  Ideally I should be cycling, running and swimming an average total of about 12 hours per week, with 4-5 hours of that one long bicycle ride.  Since I have not been doing long rides lately, my mileage over the past three months is limited.  Hopefully it is adequate to maintain conditioning for the Sado half-ironman in early September

May 1-6      14:00
May 7-13      6:30  China Trip
May 14-20    4:00   Taper
May 21-27    4:30   Taper
May 28 -3    14:30   Ironman
June  4-10     6:00    Recovery
June 11-17    7:30  
June 18-24    9:45
June 25-1      5:30  Singapore Trip
July 2-8         9:30 
July  9-15      8:00
July 16-22     5:45
July 23-29     8:15

The typical week entails 2-3 swims, 2-3 bike sessions (including spin workouts), and 3 running workouts.

The other item I track is weekly running mileage (which is much more meaningful to me that swimming or cycling mileage).  Again, these figures are not terribly impressive (especially when you note that they are kilometers, not miles).  Certainly every other runner I know of who talks about how many miles or kilometers they are doing every week is doing considerably more that the amount I have run lately.  But then it stands to reason that the people who talk about how much they are running, tend to be the people who are running considerably more than the average. 
Here is my weekly running kilometers over the past 3 months --

May 1-6        22
May 7-13      40   China Trip
May 14-20    19   Taper
May 21-27     8   Taper
May 28 -3     47   Ironman
June  4-10     38    Recovery
June 11-17    46  
June 18-24    31
June 25-1      27  Singapore Trip
July 2-8         35
July  9-15      36
July 16-22     28
July 23-29     39


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