Tri training made mes LESS fit??? - Triathlon

hunnymonster

14/06/2007 at 18:21

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?

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:23

Go Long

:-)

M..o.use

14/06/2007 at 18:27

fat&forty

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.

hunnymonster

14/06/2007 at 18:32

Thanks Ms T - glad I'm not the only one. I'm no great athlete either (race night prep consisted of painting my toenails so as not to look too skanky by the pool and a big glass of red wine to help me get to sleep...)
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.

Bouncing Barlist pirate

pirate

14/06/2007 at 18:32

Your slower run could be due to fatigue or just be a coincidence. If you want to carry on tri training but also want to improve your run fitness youll either have to work harder for longer or add more run sessions.

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.

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:33

you have to decide what you want to do.
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.

:-)

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:34

like i said Barly 'go long'

Bouncing Barlist pirate

pirate

14/06/2007 at 18:34

Interesting topic.. my run is very poor now to.

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:36

your run was always poor.

:-)

M...eldy

pirate

14/06/2007 at 18:38

my run is better :-)

Bouncing Barlist pirate

pirate

14/06/2007 at 18:39

I used to be 1:48 for a half marathon, ive never got near that in the last 4 years.

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:40

but you are a goddess

D.O.G.

14/06/2007 at 18:40

but surely you are glad to sacrifice the speed for endurance?

M..o.use

14/06/2007 at 18:43

I use the things like our summer 10k series to boost the tri training. I found during the spring that I was doing a Saturday long bike of about 25/35 miles but was then too spangled to do a long run on a Sunday. I understand the concept of swim a bit, bike a lot and run a bit so that's what I sort of did.

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?

SoVeryTired

14/06/2007 at 18:48

I resemble that comment...

M..o.use

14/06/2007 at 18:51

hardeebloodyhar SVT.

Maybe if we sit long enough and patiently enough the lesser spotted yellow tri God may appear and share his/her knowledge.

Shhhhh!

SoVeryTired

14/06/2007 at 18:55

Shhhhh! To the hide!

lurker

14/06/2007 at 18:57

<waits>

Hollywood (busy on runsaturday.com) pirate

pirate

14/06/2007 at 19:07

I agree with someone (Barley?) up above - I doubt you're less fit, but I reckon you will have lost some running endurance.

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).

Hollywood (busy on runsaturday.com) pirate

pirate

14/06/2007 at 19:09

More advice - keep mixing your training up, make sure your training matches all your goal races (if one of your goals is a 10km running race then prepare for it), and.... make sure you enjoy it!