Pro John Hirsch's Training Week. Variety is King!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 6:50AM Pro triathlete John Hirsch recently posted the details of a typical training week leading up to the ITU Long Course Worlds race. It's an impressive account, logging 19.5 K of swimming, 300 miles of biking, and 60 miles of running.
If you know John and read between the lines, you will catch that his workouts have a huge amount of variety. He mixes in tons of different locations, equipment and terrains to keep it fresh. It's almost like every day is a new adventure. This is a key habit to help get the training in. It's the same technique that Paula Newby Fraiser also recently recommended as a key triathlon tactic.
I went for a run last night along my same old route, but I zig-zagged from one side of the road to the next to make it different. The time flew by much faster than usual, and all I did was run the same route differently.
Good luck to John at his big race!
Reader Comments (1)
Awwww. It was so sweet of you to blog about your friend! He is awesome at adding variety to his training. And he loves being outdoors like he's a little kid and he trains with that excitement that a kid has to be running through the woods. I love it!