Hi all,
I was just having a little crisis of confidence and so thought I would pick the collective brains of the forum.
My athletic background is as follows:
I've been running for nearly 3 years, I try to run a race a month from 5k to marathon, with my first ultra next month at the two oceans.
I cycled LEJOG in 13 days last summer and have commuted to and from work since then, but no rides of any significant distance since.
Very little swim experience. Have done 1900m in 47 mins at a pool last week and did a 400m time trial in 9:30.
O and never done a triathlon.
With 15 weeks to go till my tri:
1)can I complete it?
2)where should my training focus be?
3)are there any key time trials I should do nearer the time to assess what shape I'm in?
Thanks for reading. All comments welcome.
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You'll probably do the swim under 90 mins. Well within cut off.
Then there's just the bike and run to do. Simples.
Completing the distance won't be a problem. Get out on the bike, it won't take you long to get back to your LEJOG endurance on it. Do some OW swims, getting up to race distance. Key time trials? After your long rides you'll have an idea of how long the bike will take, and your run pace is likely to be a bit slower than your ultra pace.
I'm hoping to get up to iron distance in the pool and then i think open water starts in may.
The run should take care of itself and I am running Edinburgh at the end of may.
Any tips on the outlaw itself?
so you can run miles - you do ultras ffs
you can bike miles.... (lejog is solid base traning)
your swimming is ok.......
do a couple of swims a week.... one for consistency, one getting slowly longer - add 100m a week and you will be at 3.9k by race day
keep the running ticking over,
but you are already fit enough here. as everyone else says, bike fitness is whats needed most in IM, so try and ride long once a week building up from x hrs to a 6 hr ride. If its 'easy'. then regular 6 hr rides each week / over distance rides are next
throw in the odd 30 min run off a long bike to get the idea of how slowly you will be running on race day.. IM running is all about not slowing down, not running fast
everyone is in a different place, but you sound like you have a pretty solid base.....
Do some specific training post your ultra, (ie bike, bike, swim, bike, bike and bike some more) and you will be fine
btw if you're speedy along with having endurance (and therefore gonna beat me) then all the above advice is wrong. You have no chance and should throw in the towel next year and start a john newsom 3 year plan
O a John Newsom 3 year plan, so you are a fellow IM Talk listener Cannon? I was meant to do a 3 year plan, but succeeded in booking UK 70.3 which clashed with a friends wedding, and so I thought why not just go the whole hog and do Iron distance
Swimming is definately my weakest of the three disciplines, but after today's 40 mile ride at 15mph with the tri club I am broken! Also managed to get two punctures and needed big help changing them, so if transitions are the 4th discipline then bike maintenance must be the 5th!
Ok post Ultra I am all over the long bike rides, O and I do have Edinbrugh end of May that I would like to PB at
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