I'm now in my last month of IM training (Duke Blue Devil in October) and I am finding that my 2 weekly brick routines feel better (and significantly faster) than my long run. In fact when I do a 40/9 I feel like I should keep going where as my solo run of 15 is pure hell starting at about mile 9.
Has anyone else experienced this (I only saw one other reference to this on RST, and that was back in 1998)? Given this, should I make the brick run as long as my long run, and move my middle-distance run to my solo run? I'll probably just stick with my current program for this race, but I'd be interested in hearing what others have to say.
I'm now in my last month of IM training (Duke Blue Devil in October) and I am finding that my 2 weekly brick routines feel better (and significantly faster) than my long run. In fact when I do a 40/9 I feel like I should keep going where as my solo run of 15 is pure hell starting at about mile 9.
Has anyone else experienced this (I only saw one other reference to this on RST, and that was back in 1998)? Given this, should I make the brick run as long as my long run, and move my middle-distance run to my solo run? I'll probably just stick with my current program for this race, but I'd be interested in hearing what others have to say.
Thanks! Christopher
Christopher,
I can't answer your question, but wanted to wish you good luck at the race. I was registered for the DBD but had to withdraw due to an illness which screwed up my training this summer.
I hope to be back next year though so I'd love to hear a post-race report if you have the time.
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I'm now in my last month of IM training (Duke Blue Devil in October) and I am finding that my 2 weekly brick routines feel better (and significantly faster) than my long run. In fact when I do a 40/9 I feel like I should keep going where as my solo run of 15 is pure hell starting at about mile 9.
Has anyone else experienced this (I only saw one other reference to this on RST, and that was back in 1998)? Given this, should I make the brick run as long as my long run, and move my middle-distance run to my solo run? I'll probably just stick with my current program for this race, but I'd be interested in hearing what others have to say.
Thanks! Christopher
I have experience the same thing...
When training for short course triathlons, your idea of doing brick runs equal to your long run has worked for me. The key is intensity as too whether it is an advantage to do it all the time. I watch both intensity AND brick volume to establish a reference point to decide whether it is adding to my training or subtracting from my training.
It not so much the number of brick (or distance), but it is at what intensity those bricks are done at that seem to establish it's value.
