Ironman Training
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 […]
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
A Weekend on the Ironman Wales Bike Course
I opened the curtains in our Tenby apartment to be greeted by a bright and sunny morning, the air was still and the sea was calm, I could only hope for conditions like this on race day, in seven months time. We were lucky, many a childhood summer has been spent on British beaches, sheltering […]
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
In Response to Illness
In the past nothing highlighted the difference between the way I coach myself and the way I coach an athlete than the issue of sickness. Being self-coached – a slightly pretentious way of saying, doing what I like – illness leaves me choosing between how bad I feel and how bad I will feel if […]
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
The Inaugural CoachCox January Training Camp
With a slight creak and sudden easing of tension a seatpost clamp changed the nature of my week in Lanzarote. Years of tyre spray and dirt corroded the bolt till it stiffened, seized and finally sheared leaving this last minute packer with little choice – rapidly disassemble and pack the time trial bike instead. Camp […]
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Testing Times
The pleasure of a rare opportunity to swim in a fifty metre pool was tempered by the knowledge of what I would be doing in it. In an act of support, I’d reluctantly agreed to perform a Critical Swim Speed (CSS) test – two short time trials to estimate my threshold swim speed. Test sessions […]
