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Originally Posted by BikeSwimLaugh 
What I'm doing is taking a spin-class and then jumping on the treadmill between the 15-20 minutes before the next spin-class, and then I swim a mile.
I'm doing this 2-3x per week and it takes about 3 hours each time.
Is this what I should be doing to train for a tri? Each time I hit the gym I spin/run/swim. I may evolve it into run/spin/run/spin/ swim....I want 2 miles total run, 1 miles swim and 2.25 hours on the bike. Along with good diet, I seem to be making progress again!!!
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I suspect your tri is going to take about 3 hours +/- in total to complete as it is.
As we've already discussed, I don't think anyone needs to train 3 hours a day - but that's another topic.
In any event, if you plan on continuing to do these 3 hour training sessions, and plan on continuing to do each of the 3 tri requirements in each session, you might be better served allocating your 3 hours of training in the order of priority - time wise - to what you'll see in the race.
For example, the swim should only take you somewhere around 35 +/- minutes.....which it seems you're doing now. I'd simply add that with the nicer weather, you'll also definitely want to get out of the pool and do some outdoor swims - using a wet suit.
The bike portion of a tri could take you about 1.15 +/ - hours. You already do 2 sessions of 1+ hours each for a total 2.25 hours. So, perhaps drop the second spin session, and instead of your 15-20 minutes of running between spin sessions as you do now, do a 1 hour spin class and then 20 minutes of biking on your own for a total of 1 and 20 minutes of biking....close to what you might see in the tri.
The tri will have a 10 k run, which you should be able to do in about an hour. In place of that 2nd spin class, you might try and eventually do 1 hour of running either with some high tempo runs or some fartlek style runs or some combo of HITT steady state to take up the hour. You want to build up some running endurance. Also, you usually want to have the treadmill incline set at 1 or 2 ( instead of 0 ) as it better simulates outdoor running IMO.
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Originally Posted by BikeSwimLaugh My secret? Whe friends & doctors tell me I'm "excessive"...I just replace their words with the phrase "Keep it up!!"  |
I would have to tend to agree with them.
