Half-Ironman Prep: 12 weeks to go - let the games begin!

[andygates]

Time for half-ironman prep to begin in earnest with about twelve weeks to go until the big day.  Here's the program I'll be using; it's one of Friel's (I'm going to try to put in a couple of short, constrained strength sessions as well, for my own mental health and since I have no social life, but they're optional).

The race distance is 1.2 mile swim, 56mile bike, 13.1 mile run.  The swim will be challenging but I know and like the lake and my best swim evar is just over a mile non-stop; the bike is gravy as long as I keep it tightly bottled; the run's going to be interesting as the 10k course on that site really spanked me in May, but with three half-marathons under my belt I know what to expect.

Now because I've slacked the tri-training since the May race, I'm going to ease into the program, allowing myself to do as little as 50% of the routine durations this week and 75% next.

So, to complete this, I'm going to have to be in the best shape of my life.  And that's the goal too.  What a happy confluence of intents and requirements.

meep

Comments

[fialta.livejournal.com]

The training plan looks really good, I am using the one for the olympic distance from the same site. I am sure you'll be fine, keep us posted on how the training goes.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Will do! I'm already a bit sore and intimidated from the "recovery" week - but hey, if it wasn't a challenge, it wouldn't be half as much worth doing.

[simoneck.livejournal.com]

Good luck. Those are a really serious set of distances.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

On their own, only the swim is. The bike is a leisure ride (been doing it for 25 years now, crikey). The run is significant but there's no doubt I can do 'em. Stacked together, it's a big hill to climb. The big challenge will be finishing the bike fresh enough to have a good run (exactly the opposite of what I did last race).

[despaer.livejournal.com]

Come up to Wells at some point over the summer and we can do some bike if that helps (it would help me!), or is it all run you are working on?