Last month I talked about the Myth of LSD and how base training was essentially your chance to set yourself up to have a good race season while improving your aerobic fitness. Now that you are into your base season, or at least you should be, you can gauge your fitness by jumping into some races to see where you really are. There is a great quote by Dr.

January is the start of the new year and the start of the new triathlon season for many people. It's a time when you hear the word "Base" a lot during group rides and runs. "Oh, I'm going easy today. Just building my Base, you know." Or, "Wow, with a Base like that he should have a great season this year." Or the dreaded, "You know, he shouldn't be working that hard this soon.

Going from Base Training to Intensity Training By now you've built your base and you want to move into some interval training. These workouts are hard but not so hard that you can't walk the next day. Only hard enough that you work close to your LT (lactate threshold) zone.

For most athletes, training time during the week is relatively finite, while the weekends are more flexible. Most athletes can fit an hour a day during the week, but things get very hairy at two to three hours.

A Refresher on Base Training This subject has been written about 1,435 times since I started doing triathlons in 1988. As often as it has been written about, the basics haven't changed.