A great little routine to start in the new year is to take your morning resting heart rate. Yes, it can be a bit annoying to reach out from under those warm blankets and put the cold plastic monitor to your chest, but the benefits to knowing what that [...]
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If you’re diligent about keeping track of your workouts you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how this simple tool not only helps keep your motivation high (by allowing you to set weekly goals, and trying to out-do last month), but it will also allow you to train more effectively in future months and years. The magic really starts to happen once you’ve got a full year’s worth of data. It’s more than likely that you have a vague recollection of what you did last January, but imagine if you knew exactly what you did – it would be so simple to improve on that program and make the upcoming year even more succesful. This works on a month-to-month basis as well. Keeping track of progressing run volume is one of the best ways to avoid getting injured while pushing yourself to make gains. “Ok, you ran 200km in January, can you get to 220km in February?” If you’re a social person, most of the online training logs also allow you to share your workouts with the training community. Some like this option, some don’t…you can always turn the privacy settings on.
This tip has to do with your shammy - relative to your saddle height on race day (not the amount of time you spend sitting around in it). Most of us as triathletes will race in a tri-short with a small shammy that doesn’t soak up a gallon of water from the swim, and doesn’t feel like a diaper during the run. However, we often train in a normal cycling shorts with those nice thick pads that ease the bumps and bruises on our skinny butts. The difference between the two is relatively minor, but, it does make a difference on race day if your legs and back are used to having that extra ~5mm of height. So how do you solve this? We tend not to like adjusting our physical saddle height to compensate, but, if you want to be extreme you could certainly do this. Rather, we simply make sure to train in our Tri-shorts a couple times per week, and every single ride for the 2-3 weeks before race day. The difference really is small, but, with ~5000 revolutions of the pedals every hour on the bike, those little differences are worth paying attention to. |
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