When you’ve got a long day of training on tap, one involving all three sports, consider basing yourself out of your car or gym locker for the day. It’s a great way to speed up the switch from one sport to the next, and it eliminates any temptation to sit on the couch for 10 minutes (which can turn into a couple of hours). You’ll also find that it:
- Helps teach you what works well nutritionally on a long day
- Helps your body adapt to the changes from one sport to the next
- Gets your training day over with sooner
- Is easy to co-ordinate a day like that with your training partners, if they do the same
- Helps your race day organizational skills (there’s a lot of equipment and food to deal with)
- Keeps you from skipping the last workout in favor of that comfy couch!!
With race day coming up, try one or two of these ‘non-stop’ days. You’ll learn something.
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this is a great tip! I often waste 20-30 minutes in between workouts and it's not a true multisport simulation!
I never thought of doing it like that, I generally base it from my house..like I am right now, between long workouts reading this
great tip, thanks!
While most of my multi-discipline training is done away from my house, this is a great idea for those times. Especially when I swim and drive home to change and go bike.
Just having to pull together all of your equipment and nutrition for the day makes this worthwhile.
I just tried this last weekend. And thank goodness, after my swim and 56 mile ride, I didn't want to run. I had training partners waiting at my car for me, so I knew I had to keep on goin'!