Hi Everyone!
For those of you who are triathletes I have several questions for you.
How many days a week do you swim, run, and bike (for example, swim 2, run 5, etc)?
Do you break each down into different days--such as bike one day, run the next--or do you do train events together in the same day?
How much time a week do you spend training?
For sprint or international distance tri's--how much weekly milage do you do for running, swimming, and biking?
Thanks everyone! After more than 2 months of rehabilitative therapy, I'm up to 14 minutes of running on land! It's coming together--and am grateful for all of your advice.
Also, the injury is what took me back to swimming--so it's not such a bad deal after all!
Jerrycat
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I have been doing tris for 20 years. there was a time when I was intense, doing all 3 sports 5 or 6 days a week, lots of running and biking mileage. My swimming background allowed me to fall into the pool and do 1500 and still come out of the water in races in good position. For several years I didn't compete in swimming because I was so busy doing tris. Then injuries that limited running happened, the Masters Nationals was going to be held at Mission Bay in Boca and I found myself wanting to be a swimmer again. I still cross train, run 3 days a week, 3-5 miles, swim 3-4 days, 1500-4500, and bike one long 25-30 mile ride a week. some times I get on the bike for an extra 30 minutes once or twice a week. I can easily finish the sprint distance with this schedule, but not the Olympic distance. I tried one last summer and hit the wall 3 miles into the run. use the books and websites for reference but listen to your own body for workouts.
I have been doing tris for 20 years. there was a time when I was intense, doing all 3 sports 5 or 6 days a week, lots of running and biking mileage. My swimming background allowed me to fall into the pool and do 1500 and still come out of the water in races in good position. For several years I didn't compete in swimming because I was so busy doing tris. Then injuries that limited running happened, the Masters Nationals was going to be held at Mission Bay in Boca and I found myself wanting to be a swimmer again. I still cross train, run 3 days a week, 3-5 miles, swim 3-4 days, 1500-4500, and bike one long 25-30 mile ride a week. some times I get on the bike for an extra 30 minutes once or twice a week. I can easily finish the sprint distance with this schedule, but not the Olympic distance. I tried one last summer and hit the wall 3 miles into the run. use the books and websites for reference but listen to your own body for workouts.
