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TriSooner posted 21 weeks ago.
With 10 weeks to go? Off the top of my head I'd say you could work back up to :90, maybe 2hrs. Considering you are coming off an injury and you want to be very cautious, an hour-and-a-half run might be a goal session closer to race day. Something to consider is if you are shooting just to finish or do so somewhere mid-pack, I would totally over-load the bike and do as little running as possible. The concept of "running" the marathon in an Ironman is totally erroneous (e.g., my best marathon only is 3:50. My best Ironman marathon is closer to 5:50). Turn in a good 1hr swim and 5hr or 6hr bike and you can stroll to a finish (which I have done coming of an injury timed just like yours).
Unless you are shooting for Kona or are competitive in your AG, there is huuuuuuge amount of walking involved. (I got in the lake at CdA to cool off.) The "run" is more like a slow shuffle. My point being don't injure yourself (again) trying to get into good running shape when you won't really be doing much running anyways. I could be wrong. You could be expecting a 10hr finish, and if that's the case, you're a bad ass so ignore me :)
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jperubog posted 21 weeks ago.
Should have referenced my previous post, but I am totally just looking to finish, already resigned myself 4 weeks ago to the fact that I will probably be walking a majority of the run. Just getting that itch to get back to running on the road to test out my foot. In the mean time, for the past six weeks, in addition to the aqua jogging, I have drastically increased my biking and swimming(more biking) and I am shooting for a good swim and bike, and then squeak through the run. I made a quick decision to focus on the other two disciplines and hopefully the extra biking and swimming will work for me. From here on out I think I have modified my workouts enough so that I will come off the bike with plenty of energy and time. Your times are just about what I am hoping for, 1 hr swim with a 5.5 hour bike. Like you said, with 10 weeks I'll be lucky to get up to about 90 minutes, which isn't much. So, in your opinion should I just not worry too much about the running and stick with the aqua jogging, biking, and swimming? and just work in some light runs? thanks for the feedback,
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kylie posted 21 weeks ago.
Gotta say I disagree with Sooner a bit -- if you have trained well and not had injuries jump up, your IM marathon should be much closer than that to your open. With an injury all bets are off, but I have never gone into an IM expecting to walk much (or any) of the marathon, and I have usually hit that expectation.
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So with less than 10 weeks left to IMKY, and after 6 weeks off running(injury) my foot feels good, so I am going to start hitting the road again. I have been aqua jogging for the last 4 weeks, but I need to start hitting the road, slowly of course. At this point I am just going to try to build back up, not worried about mileage, more time than anything, but I was wondering how long I should try to build back up before the race. I plan on following my regular taper schedule for biking and swimming(I was planning on a 4 week taper). Should I shorten the taper for the run to like 2 weeks? 1 week? Thanks, JP