The Perfect Week For Triathletes And Triathlons
Those perfect weeks when training and racing go well are to be cherished and capitalized upon. Although they may not happen often, sooner or later you’ll have a great week of training, racing or even both, which will justify all your hard work and effort.
Life has a way When you are training and racing as a hobby, many other priorities will come before triathlon. You have to take the rough with the smooth and keep telling yourself that you are a triathlete. There will be a good week
the perfect week for triathletes and triathlons
The curse of numbers The downside of your biggest week, the longer session or the best race you have ever had is the comedown from it. Training time cannot ever expand towards a 30-hour week as you approach spending almost as much time indulging your tri- hobby as being at real-life work. Similarly, super- long sessions or peak races are followed by lesser ones. View the exceptional as just that and accept
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that lesser distances, speeds or totals are a reality. More is not better after a certain optimum is reached.
Planning makes perfect Planning what you intend to do can help to increase the chances of maximizing the good weeks. Making time whilst you are on holiday to train as well as doing family stuff, DIY or sightseeing is an example of good planning. Similarly, knowing when there’s more daylight on offer, work is easing off or you have a day in lieu helps when planning a good training wee
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k. If the weather is horrendous, or you have massive family or social commitments or wall-to-wall work, it may not be the best time to plan that perfect week. It’s the total amount of training that you accrue, not any one week or any one session, that counts. Every athlete has to let life get in the way occasionally. If you don’t do this then you’re taking your training too seriously. Triathlon is a lifestyle that allows you to blend your exercise and competing alongside the rest of your commitments, such as work, family and a social life – make balance your watch word.
Top Tip Becoming a triathlete means being good at maximizing your time, not just for training but also for caring for and maintaining equipment and recovering from races and hard training sessions. Use every segment of spare time to its optimum – what you do now gives you more time to train later.