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2006/07/28, 04:39 PM
One of my goals this year was to take part in a Women’s Series Sprint Triathlon. The distances are 750m swim, 20km Bike and a 5km run. Now I know I can already do each of these, but obviously I need to train for the endurance of doing all three consecutively. I anticipate it will take me a max of 1.5 hrs to complete. I’m doing this for the experience, but would like a respectable finish time. The race is on Sept. 10, so I have about 6 weeks to train.
I plan on working on endurance, so I’m running 5-6km 2X / week, biking at least 1X/week and swimming 800m 1X per week. Next week I plan to start combining some of the events such as biking for 20min and then running for 15 min. Somewhere along the line I’ll try a swim/bike combo.
Anyway, my question is this...How does wt training fit into all of this? I really don’t want to drop it completely, but am I crazy to try to include this in my training? I figure I’ll still do one day at the gym doing a full body workout using a bit lower wt than I’ve used in the past. And then on one other day, later in the week (I did this today) I would add a bit of upper body work on the same day I do a run or bike. So today, for example, I did 35min on the bike followed by assisted pullups, pec flyes and some ab work.
Since I’m only doing this for 6-7weeks and the distances aren’t totally out of my reach, I figure I can get away with continuing with my wt training, but at a lower intensity.
Any comments / suggestions or otherwise would be greatly appreciated.
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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
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