Ironman Analysis
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
Thirty Days of Running, Thirty Days On
The aftermath of thirty days of running – finally some run fitness. But it’s only the start.
Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Training Patterns
A pictorial representation of the patterns and routines of my training over the last few years. A simpler graphical approach than some of my previous charts.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Attempting to Tame Training Zones
To clarify my own thoughts as much as advise my athletes I developed a (very) rough guide to how different levels of intensity and differing means of measuring them align.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
The Trouble with Training Zones
I’ve long been convinced that training zones were designed to make me feel inadequate – I’m working hard, it’s not very comfortable, but apparently it’s ‘easy’, or worse I’m ‘recovering’.
Friday, March 30th, 2012
How to Plan a Season Using the Performance Management Chart
This is it for planning, the bike is now done. The tools and how to for building performance management charts in a spreadsheet and using them to plan training.
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
An Overview of Season Planning using the Performance Management Chart
I suffer from an allergic reaction to strict training schedules, so shaping my season in the Performance Management Chart may give me the flexibility I need.
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
A Look at How I’ve Run During One Year of Ironman Training
Following on from how I cycle, I consider how I run; looking at cadence, heart rate and pace data from the last year of run training.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
A Look At How I’ve Cycled During Four Years of Ironman Training
How does my cycle cadence relate to my power output and performance? And what can four years of cycling data tell me about how I ride?
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
A Look at Four Years of Ironman Bike Training
Analysis of cycling data is a staple of this site, so having condensed four years of run data into a single chart I inevitably turned my attention to the bike.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
A Look at Four Years of Ironman Run Training
It was an innocent enough idea, struck by the speed with which I was regaining my run legs and having recently updated my training diary to include the missing six months of data, I wondered – what could it show me? I hadn’t anticipate the hours I’d lose sifting through my logs, trying different charts […]
