Just did my first tri (sprint distance, but its a start!)at the weekend - cr*p result but thrilled to finish in one piece and totally loved the whole experience. I trained for it for 8 weeks using the Jo Friel book, and prior to that was regularly running 8 - 10k.
But...
I did not run any further than 5k during training, so decided to do 10k today and had to stop and walk twice!! Gutted! Had high hopes of improving my running via tri - any suggestions/advice?
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Same thing is happening to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm no great athlete though. I've only done one tri so far.
I did Stratford tri and I was really pleased with it.
I've done 2 x 10k races since and the first one was close to a PW and the second was a minute slower than that. I've got another 10k race tomorrow and I'm dreading it.
The running dropped off to do the biking. It's the only thing I can think of. Only answer I can think of is to train more.
Hard to train more often as I have a job and 2 small kids, but maybe I just need to train harder, or sack the longer runs and concentrate on tri as I did love love love it on the day.
It also depends how much run specific training you were doing before and how much Tri training your doing now.
The swim and bike sessions you do will certainly help your endurance and overall fitness but if your replaying 5 or 6 focussed run sessions with say 6-7 multisport sessions its reasonable that your shorter distance run strength will suffer.
Overall youll certainly be fitter, tri training works more of your body and youll have more core fitness.
do you want to run fast 10k's or fast Tris,
though they overlap. training is event specific,training for the other 2 events (swim and bike) will help increase you aerobic capacity, but the only way to run faster 10k's is to train for that.
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On the basis of working for sprint tri only this season, how many sessions each of swim, bike and run should I be doing per week?
Considering I'm fat, unfit and crap?
Maybe if we sit long enough and patiently enough the lesser spotted yellow tri God may appear and share his/her knowledge.
Shhhhh!
If you're sprint training...
Drop your Saturday cycle down to 10/20 miles, then you'll be OK to do your long run on the Sunday.
I never cycled anywhere near 35 miles when I was first sprint tri training... but I did carry on running 10km (and above).
See, Joe freil books are crap.
long bike of about 25/35 miles ¦oD
Tri doesn't improve your running, running improves your running and tri gives you an excuse to train when you should be resting.
*confused blink*
Should I enter things with less gusto?
What's a fraction? Do I need a bike computer for that?
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you should find as you do more swim/bike training you will get faster in your running
I certainly did and that was only on 3 runs a week
good luck and enjoy the new sport you have discovered