How much longer should I train?
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cayman posted 1 year ago.
Depends. What are you training for and when's the race? What's your avg mile pace. How often do you bike and swim per week?
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I don't need to get faster, I just need to get older!
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seaduspx posted 1 year ago.
I'm training for a sprint in the very begining of August. I ride the bike 3 times per week. I just joined the local Y to start my swimming. I know, I know, I should have been swimming by now. :)
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driggins posted 1 year ago.
For a sprint you'll be fine. You've got a few months to develop your swim stroke - work on your form and practice form every time in the pool. Then log some yards and get a decent base with some speed thrown in. Just enjoy and don't worry too much about the details. After you figure out how your body handles the load (that race in Aug will be a good test) you can adjust your mileage.
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UFTriGator posted 1 year ago.
^^^Driggins is right. If you want to get faster by running three days a week, make one run a tempo run (20 min hard in the middle should be fine), one either track or intervals, and the third long aerobic (that would be the first one to add miles to)
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-Matt
Not fast enough.
I haven’t posted anything in a while, but I am online each and every day. I read all the posts and learning from them. I’m still training. I’m logging my workouts. I’m being careful about my nutrition – this is the easy part for me because as a person who used to consistently weight train, I was very regimented in what I ate. Now I just have to eat differently. At any rate…
I’m still learning from all of you so please bear with me and some of the elementary questions.
I previously posted a question regarding how much I should train, how much I should increase my training, etc… One of the answers that I got was that I should increase, say in the run, by no more than 10% per week. Assuming I started running 30 minutes per day, 3 days a week, and I am now in week six, I’m up to ~50 minutes, how much longer do I need to run per workout? I would suspect it has to end somewhere. :)