Miles or time???
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Hi all
2 questions I'd be interested to hear new thoughts on:
Traning - do other triathletes out there tend to use time or distance when training? Any opinions on which method gets better results? I've heard a few people say 'do the time and the miles take care of themselves'....but do they?
Racing - when your riding on a longer race courses (or even on longer training rides), say half Ironman, do people find it psychologically easier to go by distance or time displayed on their bike computers?
Mine doesn't display both, and I can't seem to decide which is best..... wondered how other people do these things.
Let me know what you all think!
2 questions I'd be interested to hear new thoughts on:
Traning - do other triathletes out there tend to use time or distance when training? Any opinions on which method gets better results? I've heard a few people say 'do the time and the miles take care of themselves'....but do they?
Racing - when your riding on a longer race courses (or even on longer training rides), say half Ironman, do people find it psychologically easier to go by distance or time displayed on their bike computers?
Mine doesn't display both, and I can't seem to decide which is best..... wondered how other people do these things.
Let me know what you all think!
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It's more the longer distances of 50-60 miles that I seem to struggle with, just wondered if people had any 'coping' techniques of survivng longer distance rides?
TK
I find that so hard to do! I get bored plodding along at in zone 2/3 - although I do commute in zone 3.
Take last night, I went out for a run (8k). Thought "I'll take this easy". 1km into it and I was bored, so started doing intervals of over 15kph, dropping back to 13.5kph. So probably spent the majority of the run in zones 4/5!
I think I really need tips on knocking the pace back.
What are benefits of lower zones?
Its all about endurance, then speed endurance, then speed
The lower zone stuff for 90mins - 2hrs (for Oly distance) at a time it what will give u core endurance through the winter, and then you bring in pace and interval sets later on.
gunforhire, it may be that you just need to examine your zones, if you can do 8km at 13.5k+ then what can you do at race pace, which should be a mid/high Zone 4. Zone 5 is sprinting basically, and Zone 5b (according to Joe Friel) is........well I am not sure, as I have never been there lol