Just sharing my personal experience if anyone can relate... I'm a 58 year triathlete (59 in 2025) and I train 10 max 11 hours per week. 2 swims with tri club (around 3000 meters of mixed drills) 2 track sessions (pretty hard intervalls, short ones and longer ones) plus a "long" run on sundays (15 to 20 km). I also do a Zwift program on monday evenings, another one on wednesday evenings (In spring & summer I'll ride outdoors) & a long cycle (80 to 100 km) with club members on saturday morning. When I train for a marathon I keep all the sessions & dont increase the number of runs: I still do 3 sessions weekly but adapt the intervalls to the demands of a marathon, & then of course, the long run gets longer, but in my case never over 25 to 27 km. My last marathon was 3h22 min and although I did slow down a bit on the last 7 km, I wasn't absolutely destroyed. So I feel that keeping the bike sessions & swims is much better (for me) than increasing the frequency of the run sessions to 4X or 5X per week, because that's when I get injured... It works for me, I wonder if it'll work for anyone else?
I'm glad you stressed the 15-20% rule for training. It really emphasizes building your fitness VS huge blocks added to your training schedule. I believe something else that needs to be included in training camps and in general is proper stretching and light weight training. Has GTN ever done a segment on either of those? It's a great compliment to general Triathlon training and helps with neuromuscular and skeleton endurance.
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Just sharing my personal experience if anyone can relate... I'm a 58 year triathlete (59 in 2025) and I train 10 max 11 hours per week. 2 swims with tri club (around 3000 meters of mixed drills) 2 track sessions (pretty hard intervalls, short ones and longer ones) plus a "long" run on sundays (15 to 20 km). I also do a Zwift program on monday evenings, another one on wednesday evenings (In spring & summer I'll ride outdoors) & a long cycle (80 to 100 km) with club members on saturday morning. When I train for a marathon I keep all the sessions & dont increase the number of runs: I still do 3 sessions weekly but adapt the intervalls to the demands of a marathon, & then of course, the long run gets longer, but in my case never over 25 to 27 km. My last marathon was 3h22 min and although I did slow down a bit on the last 7 km, I wasn't absolutely destroyed. So I feel that keeping the bike sessions & swims is much better (for me) than increasing the frequency of the run sessions to 4X or 5X per week, because that's when I get injured... It works for me, I wonder if it'll work for anyone else?
I'm glad you stressed the 15-20% rule for training. It really emphasizes building your fitness VS huge blocks added to your training schedule. I believe something else that needs to be included in training camps and in general is proper stretching and light weight training. Has GTN ever done a segment on either of those? It's a great compliment to general Triathlon training and helps with neuromuscular and skeleton endurance.
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