Nine workouts per week to get ready for the half-ironman! The shear volume seems overwhelming, but I can't wait to get started. I am using the level 1 workout by Matt Fitzgerald in his Week-by-Week training guide.
June 14th marks the beginning of the journey toward beach2battleship. In the meantime I will be building a base to prep for the upcoming demands of full-time training. I have set new personal bests for distance on the bike, reaching 60-miles this past week and I have a 66-mile bike race next week. I have been in the pool a couple of times now. By far my weakest event. I am glad I have some time to work on it and glad the swim will be wet suit legal for some added buoyancy. I am least nervous about the running since I can already do the distances and total times. The brick workouts (bike-to-run workouts) will be good prep and much needed to make sure I can finish the race strong.
After playing with a pace calculator it looks like I should be finishing just over 6 hours. I estimate I can finish the swim in 33-34 minutes, bike @ 16 mph for 3.5 hours, and run @ 8:30 pace to finish in 1 hour 51 minutes. I factored in 5 minutes for each transition. I figured that would give me time to get some nutrition and gear up for each event. As I practice and progress through the training I hope to have a more accurate goal set. It will be interesting to look back on this post and see how accurate, or not, I was.
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