Thursday, January 3, 2013

Training volume 2



In my last post, I listed my training volume for last year. I remembered a German triathlon book I bought almost exactly 13 years ago. The author, Ole Petersen, listed his training volume in his first eight years of triathlon training, starting from doing little sports before and leading to several Ironman finishes as well as Double-Ironman, Triple-Ironman, and Ultraman races which involve multiples of the Ironman distance in one race. In his journey, the author set a German record for the Double-Ironman distance. The name of the book is: "Ironman – The 8-hours triathlon program", in which the author provides a 2-year Ironman training plan which on average involves only 8 hours of training per week. I thought it might be interesting for some of you to know the training volume he did. I listed this in the following table and compared it to my training in 2012.

me in 2012
year 8
year 7
year 6
year 5
year 4
year 3
year 2
year 1

137
77
84
157
146
122
113
83
52
Swim (km)
3340
5270
4009
6184
5500
5382
4953
2783
2105
Bike (km)
1160
918
1054
1184
1314
1220
1317
1135
716
Run (k)m
6.8
6
5.3
7.6
7.3
6.9
6.7
4.5
3.1
weekly volume (hrs)

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