LOVE ME RUNNING HATE THE SWIM
There are a heap of places you can get training schedules from the conventionally theory is that you mix and match and spread the training load over a given period of time.
There are a lot of training principles like it but most of the time you have to go with what your LIFESTYLE dictates,and the enjoyment you get.
Lets face it if you hate swimming… and that does seem to be the Achilles heel of many a triathlete…… get out of triathlon……!!!
Yes I know there I go again carrying on about purist triathlon rubbish but that’s another rant.
The ten kilometer run
The Olympic distance triathlon run is achievable for most people, it takes regular training, commitment to your goal and a reasonable level of fitness,
which can be built over a four week period and then maintained in the lead up to an event.
With summer just around the corner, and the Tri season looming you should have been doing a good lot of ground work to start building towards a 10km run in the new season.
If you have not been able to get the run K’s in the first three weeks will be hard, but achievable good training habits requires discipline and a bit of work.
The best possible result for you in four weeks time depends on both the quality and quantity of what you have done in training in the days and weeks leading up this time of the season
So this is designed to be a running only ten k regime working on the premise that runners by and large are good at what they do.
They have there own little purist rant about triathletes but being
as you don’t like swimming your not really a triathlete either.
There are three types of runner for this training schedule, it should be clear which type of runner you are.
Sorry to bring you here under false pretense folks I did have a list Of things to do but I realized I actually did not believe in what was in the schedule it looked good when I researched it, but training is such an individual requirement that unless you have started from base you will not get results and injury is most likely to occur.
It is not my intention in this blog to give out training ideas I just get really annoyed when I see half assed things chucked out there
and some how it gets into folk law as being THE WAY what a load of b######it
1) Try to run with a friend/ group, for more enjoyment
2) Stretching should be done after every run to help with flexibility and prevent injuries. (It also makes the next day easier.)
3) Try to run on softer surfaces eg: grass, gravel, dirt tracks etc.
The best thing you can do is train for you, your family. work and social conditions things will move in the right direction at the appropriate time
Remember running 10km is a fair run, You can not expect to run the ten k you trained for off the bike
but I do believe in spending the time to know how to run a good 10 k so start out conservatively and build up into the distance,when your legs get some feel in them.
This is another aspect of Triathlon but the purist 10k training trains you to get a good 10 k time transition training and running teaches you how to run on stumps.
Don’t go out too fast early, as you will pay the price,technique will always pay dividends over the distance
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