Training For Ironman
I have several books with Ironman training schedules. Some are more complicated than others. My main goal was to finish, but I wanted to finish in a reasonable time. What’s a reasonable time? I have no idea. But I decided to go with an intermediate schedule instead of a basic Just Finish schedule. I also wanted to something not too complicated. I kind of liked the schedules in the book Be IronFit by Don Fink. But I like the FIRST marathon schedule. So what I did was to modify the Ironman schedule, and replaced the running parts with the FIRST marathon schedule. I ran as if I planned to run a 3:30 marathon, even though I had no plans to even try to run that fast. I was thinking more along the lines of a 4:00-4:30 marathon.

My weekly workout schedule looked like this:
Monday: run intervals
Tuesday: bike/run brick & karate
Wednesday: swimming & biking
Thursday: tempo run
Friday: swimming & karate
Saturday: long run
Sunday: long bike & karate

Most of the running was done on a treadmill. A lot of the biking was done on a fluid trainer due to really crappy weather. The swim portion was simplified. Instead of doing the drills in the book, I just swam laps for the equivalent distance, usually swimming a mixture of freestyle and backstroke.

I also got involved on the website IAmTri.com where there was a message forum dedicated to the 2009 Louisville Ironman. It was nice getting to know other people who were going to be doing or have done the race.

Basically my life revolved around Ironman training in the months leading up to the race.

Posted by Rob in Triathlon on September 2nd, 2009 | No Comments