brick sessions
athoyle
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Im currently doing a week of night shifts and was not feeling very tired this morning. Therefore i embarked on my first ever brick session.
I am signed up for the bleinheim and london oly tri this year (my first in tri).
I decided to cycle 13 miles followed by a 4.5 mile run. I have never felt as bad as i did for the first mile of running. I couldnt control my legs at all.
I,m hoping that a few more of these sessions will improve my running off the bike. My big questions are, is there any tactics or advice to make things easier and are the distances i covered too much, too little or right for the tris i am doing.
Yours a very wobbly
Andy
I am signed up for the bleinheim and london oly tri this year (my first in tri).
I decided to cycle 13 miles followed by a 4.5 mile run. I have never felt as bad as i did for the first mile of running. I couldnt control my legs at all.
I,m hoping that a few more of these sessions will improve my running off the bike. My big questions are, is there any tactics or advice to make things easier and are the distances i covered too much, too little or right for the tris i am doing.
Yours a very wobbly
Andy
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As far as specific sessions this is what I do and I race over olympic distance but I think this would also work for sprint. I do two brick sessions a week, in one session I ride for 2hrs and then run for 25mins. Over the weeks I build this up the race pace part from 5mins in increments of 2-3mins, rest easy, and try and hit the same splits each week as the distance increases. The other session is off my long ride, so 4hrs bike into 40min run and this session I'm going to build the run up to around 1hr. This way I'm developing my race pace in the short session and strength and endurance in my long session. You may find these bike distances a bit much in your first year but I think the principle of working below and above your race pace in the run is a good one.
Tom
Beginning of the week was ok but come Weds I was wiped out and came down with a flu type bug.Do you train regulary after shift? how does it affect you when you go back to days? Good luck with your tri's.
Hound dog, working nights and training takes a lot of getting used to. Being a junior doctor it feels like i am continually on nights, i am also always tired, therefore i am used to training whenever i can fit it in. I find training stariaght after a night shift the easiest, followed by a heap of food then im ready for bed.
I tried training before the shift but it really drained me.
Good luck with the training.
I think i may try this brick session thing again tomorrow as my legs have finally stopped complaining.
Andy
Thanks Athoyle, Im on days this week yay! so fingers x'd I'll get some sessions in.