Absolutely awesome discussion folks. Thanks a whole lot. sjsstuarts, you rocks if you can send me this whole study, and cheers for your commitment to evidence based training. You can easily do so by sending it to cgcouturier at gmail dot com
In exchange, I am happy to submit the following thread to your attention. It talks about the rebirth of a very old concept applied to performance prediction. An other of my former bosses created a set of equations to predict swim performances. We found out that these already existed in the past, but in a slightly different format. Anyway, if you are interested in a model that can easily compete with CSS model, especially for predicting times over short duration events, here's the first post within a big thread where I expose the concept. www.tritalk.co.uk/.../viewtopic.php
We've covered a lot of ground and we're essentially acknowledging the same things. We managed to keep the discussion in the right direction by being extra careful in defining semantics the best we could.
I intend to perform a full swim season using Skiba Swim Score model. I will use usms blogging features to share my findings with whoever is interested.
My two key events for 2011's nationals are the 1500 and the 200fly. So as you may expect, a very large portion of my season will be about building the base required to cut 3min off my 1500 time, which qualifies me for a possible podium (my goal). Most of this Base will be made of Maglischo's en2 and en3 volume (or sub-threshold and threshold work). My goal would probably be to grow it to an equivalent of 2k/d (14k per week) which may sound low for most of you, but it piles up on top of other triathlon specific training which I am not willing to give up upon (even if a gold medal at the nationals was at stake).
Thanks again, and happy Base training! :D
Absolutely awesome discussion folks. Thanks a whole lot. sjsstuarts, you rocks if you can send me this whole study, and cheers for your commitment to evidence based training. You can easily do so by sending it to cgcouturier at gmail dot com
In exchange, I am happy to submit the following thread to your attention. It talks about the rebirth of a very old concept applied to performance prediction. An other of my former bosses created a set of equations to predict swim performances. We found out that these already existed in the past, but in a slightly different format. Anyway, if you are interested in a model that can easily compete with CSS model, especially for predicting times over short duration events, here's the first post within a big thread where I expose the concept. www.tritalk.co.uk/.../viewtopic.php
We've covered a lot of ground and we're essentially acknowledging the same things. We managed to keep the discussion in the right direction by being extra careful in defining semantics the best we could.
I intend to perform a full swim season using Skiba Swim Score model. I will use usms blogging features to share my findings with whoever is interested.
My two key events for 2011's nationals are the 1500 and the 200fly. So as you may expect, a very large portion of my season will be about building the base required to cut 3min off my 1500 time, which qualifies me for a possible podium (my goal). Most of this Base will be made of Maglischo's en2 and en3 volume (or sub-threshold and threshold work). My goal would probably be to grow it to an equivalent of 2k/d (14k per week) which may sound low for most of you, but it piles up on top of other triathlon specific training which I am not willing to give up upon (even if a gold medal at the nationals was at stake).
Thanks again, and happy Base training! :D
