I’ve decided to enhance my Endurance Nation experience for the next 4-5 months through a more in-depth interaction with coach Patrick McCrann. I’ll document that on-going dialogue here.
@Coach Patrick OK, I guess I thought I could race in Spain, then five weeks later in Boulder without your help, but clearly I was wrong.
So I’m going back to Kona, and the first order of business is a season training plan. Note I am signed up for Ironman Arizona 7 weeks later, but I want to make Hawaii the target race, and the decision of whether and how to prep fo AZ should wait until the third week of October.
This week: transition/rest; next week, biking with Scott Dinhofer in Vermont, still just doing recovery mode.
Also, I am racing the USA Triathlong standard (Oly) national championships Aug 11 so I can do the International Triathlon Union World Championships in Edmonton 2020. It’s simply a matter of showing up and doing my thing, as the top 18 (69-73) go to the World’s. It should mean only a 4-5 day hole in training. Then, 4 weeks of build, leading to three final weeks in train in Colorado, Sep 8-29 or so.
My initial thought is fire up the IM plan to start first week of July, and finish on Oct 12, but I’m ready to consider your lead.
Also, I will be seeing a PT specialist who has special training/interest in rehabbing muscles weakened due to damaged joints. According to my PowerTap pedal power meters, my left/right pedal balance is about 56/44, showing how much weaker the damaged knee has made my quads on that side.
I’m ready to dedicate 3.5 months to the project of honoring the Hawaii course better than I did in Boulder, more like what I did in Spain, but with a bit more staying power.
Truth be told, I do not think I was able to adequately pull off that double May 4/June 9 of two major very long distance races. There was simply not enough time available in the three week interim between rest after the first and rest/taper before the second; I only had 14 miles in my legs of running. I did manage to run about half the distance after that – more complete analysis to come later this week when I write a full race report.