Every month we are fortunate enough to get feedback from the many athletes using our triathlon training plans. Some of it’s useful, some of it’s funny, all of it is great to receive…please keep that feedback coming by emailing us or posting to us via Twitter. Thanks again to everyone who uses our plans and keep up the good work. Work WORKS!
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“I wanted to give you guys a big thank you. I have actually been using a plan out of Matt Fitzgeralds book to prepare for a HIM. However, I’ve read about everything I can to help with this race. Last year I bonked like a big dog on the run and vowed that would not happen again this year. I read your article on Active.com about proper pacing on the bike leg. The following statement from your article really stood out to me: ”and don’t get caught up in fighting for three to five bikes lengths of real estate on some unnamed hill at mile 65.2 of a 140-mile day. It just. Doesn’t. Matter. ” I wasn’t racing a full but the point was still made. My HIM was on a hilly course and it felt like the entire field passed me on the bike. I just kept telling myself “It just doesn’t matter. I will catch them on the run.” I had also read your article about the LINE. I kept telling myself I had to be able to get to mile 8 on the run then let it all hang out. I can’t tell you how many people I passed on the run. I nearly ran a stand alone half marathon PR following the advice from your articles. I actually biked ~ 5 min slower this year as compared to last year, but finished 50 minutes faster! Thanks again for putting out wise information!”
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“I’ll post on the forum later but wanted to thank you two first of all – just finished my Week 8 bike test and pretty chuffed to say the least. Increase from 265 to 296w in 7 weeks of training aint bad going!”
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“Point being – I don’t want to waste ANY time during the outseason when I’m 8 or 9 months away from my race and kill any more brain cells or time than I have to thinking about training. Everything I’m doing right now is at threshold pace – zone 3, 4 and above for you heart rate training folks. Yes – I said it, THRESHOLD pace – as in near balls-out dying and tongue hanging out kind of stuff. Everybody else is doing EASY zone 1 long runs (in the freezing cold or rain) or 2 hours on the trainer while watching TV (WTF?!). I’m crushing myself for 30 minutes to an hour doing intervals for my runs as well as steady state Z3 and Z4 for my rides. Some say I’m crazy, but numbers don’t lie. Test results in the lab as well as “functional” tests have shown that my hard work in the last 8 to 9 weeks (with Christmas holidays and a Vegas trip thrown in for good measure) has yielded the same bike test results as where I was in July ‘07 – after 5 to 6 months of traditional “do more base” training. Now there’s absolutely nothing wrong with Zone 1 – you need that, you need the volume and you need to build endurance – but my point is – I don’t want to be building that NOW when I’m 8 months out from my A race. I don’t want to fry my brain and kill countless hours getting to and from the pool, to and from the gym, to and from here / there etc etc when I can just do some quality hard WORK right here in and around my home.”
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“Thanks also for your Ironman Wisconsin product that I bought last year. (I came to the party late…) I got several very useful pointers out of it and a lot of mental confidence. I was sick and had a tough run in large part because of that, but otherwise had a great level of confidence and execution. Even when I ran into difficulties in the run, being able to “execute” the best I could at the time and “work inside my box” let me come out of the race feeling like I couldn’t have done any better than I did on that day. So thanks again for that help.”
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“I signed up last year and used the system to train through the spring and summer. I am now in week 13 of the off-season.
To put it mildly, I have 2 daughters, a wife and am active in my church. I do not have the time to put in the super long runs and rides that a lot of you guys do on a routine basis. EN has allowed me to train and reach new levels of fitness while still being able to put the money in the bank with the fam for this spring when I do have to get out and ramp my weekly plan above the 10 hr. mark. I am a MOPer but they have plenty of athletes on the team that are Age Group qualifiers. So if you want a great option that allows you to maintain a job, and semblance of family sanity I can’t think of another way to go. Triathletes already have the highest level of divorce amoung the sports and I was going that way quickly before I joined EN. Now my family is fairly happy and supportive of my training.”
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