Keep up the hard work and take care of yourself, and I think you'll surprise yourself this October!
Hopefully this results in coming back to your training refreshed and recharged! There are also some great tips on our blog about Rest Week Nutrition and Recovery, but ultimately, I think you'd be best served to take an extra rest day, really focus on rest, recovery, and nutrition to reset a little. I found a Forum post from an athlete that expressed similar sentiments during the build phase, and the TrainerRoad community helped with tons of advice and information: ' TrainerRoad Forum: Having Trouble Completing Workouts'. Influencing factors to rest and recovery such as life stress, sleep patterns, and nutrition can be so minimal, and yet have the largest impact on your recovery. The Build Phase is where you're doing the majority of the work leading up to your event, and while it's not uncommon for it to feel difficult, we should look at your rest and recovery before revisiting your plan! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Bryce is off pursuing his career as a Mechanical Engineer! We miss him already and we are stoked for his new adventure, but I'm happy to try to point you in the right direction!įirst and foremost, you're definitely not alone in feeling like the Build Phase is super taxing. Should I kick around for the next two weeks then start the half iron speciality even tho I sucked badly and didn’t make any progress and am burning on the half build? Why does the speciality high volume half look so much easier than the build? I ha e a few duathlons and can group ride for higher end bike work. I peeked at the half iron speciality phase high volume and noticed it has next to zero v02 max. I have finished this block and dare say zero improvment in ftp. As a result I’m going backwards - coupled with one harder run a week now and swimming a few times a week out of lockdown, My bike isn’t progressing and I’ve actually had to drop my ftp to get through workouts. This incorporates v02 with threshold and although less tss a week, it’s much harder. From there I have moved into the mid volume half distance build. As a result I had a healthy jump in ftp and felt very strong. In lockdown and offseason I did TrainerRoad sweet spot base high volume one and two mixed with easy running only. Hey Bryce - thought I’d put this here for the best answer. Plan to start trainer road this week, so we will see. I'm sorry I don't have a better solution for you at the moment :(Īppreciate the response will take a look at it. In other words, if you're used to doing the Mid-Volume IM plan, you should add the Mid-Volume IM plan, delete the rides, and add the Low-Volume versions of the cycling plans.
You will want to go down a volume at least if you choose to follow this approach.
One manual option could be to add the IM plan, delete all of the rides, and then add Sweet Spot Base -> Sustained Power Build -> Century plans for the bike, but these are not really designed to be done in addition to running and swimming. There is no easy way to combine plans like that unfortunately everything will need to be done manually. Is there a way to combine plans instead of just picking one focus and train for?
Want to train for IMs next year but also do some 200 mile gravel races. Been following some different IM trIning plans. CJAC wrote:Looking for something new as far as a plan.