Today marked the official start of my 13 week Ironman training program. The program is designed for the intermediate triathlete who already has an established base and has set a goal of finishing an Ironman in 13 hours or less. After reading through the training schedule I believe this is the best training program for me.
Today's training calls for an hour of swimming and a hour run. The swimming workout will be moved to tomorrow morning as I had other committments today that prevented me from getting to lap swim. The run was relatively easy at a relaxed pace around 9:05/mile. I covered 6.58 miles in the 1 hour. I probably need to slow it down a bit in training as this is the pace I am hoping to maintain on the marathon portion of the Ironman. My best pace for a full marathon was 9:05/mile at the Newport Marathon but that was on fresh legs without having to swim 2.4 miles and bike 112 miles before setting off on the marathon run. So I may need to slow it down.
Since registering for Ironman 9 months ago I have logged over 2300 miles of base training. Hopefully, I am in a position now to knock out this 13 week training program and be ready to roll through the event with 2000 other athletes in Tempe, AZ this November.
I'll try to keep updating everyone as the training continues.
Today's training calls for an hour of swimming and a hour run. The swimming workout will be moved to tomorrow morning as I had other committments today that prevented me from getting to lap swim. The run was relatively easy at a relaxed pace around 9:05/mile. I covered 6.58 miles in the 1 hour. I probably need to slow it down a bit in training as this is the pace I am hoping to maintain on the marathon portion of the Ironman. My best pace for a full marathon was 9:05/mile at the Newport Marathon but that was on fresh legs without having to swim 2.4 miles and bike 112 miles before setting off on the marathon run. So I may need to slow it down.
Since registering for Ironman 9 months ago I have logged over 2300 miles of base training. Hopefully, I am in a position now to knock out this 13 week training program and be ready to roll through the event with 2000 other athletes in Tempe, AZ this November.
I'll try to keep updating everyone as the training continues.
No comments:
Post a Comment