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Chmouel at Ironman Mallorca 70.3

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 Ironman Mallorca 70.3 - May 11th 2019 (L)

Race Reporter: ChmouelTraining For my first race of the season I was in Mallorca for its annual 70.3 Ironman. As I am training to do in six weeks the full Ironman in Nice I had to test my legs with a race to make sure my training was going well. I am following a full distance Ironman program started by mid January. The training program is a lot of Z2/endurance workouts which goes from 12h to 17h a week over the six months of the training. By mid Feb I had an unfortunate knee injury while travelling due of not following properly my training plan, since I was not able to bike and swim I ran instead every day and catched the infamous “runners knee”. Obviously that was a mistake. I stopped running for a few weeks and then when the knee started to feel better, I only did some reduced and slower long runs and skipped the intervals or tempo workouts. Most of my cycling in winter was done on Zwift following the training program. When the weather was getting too cold or rainy I did some of my long endurance ride (over 4h) on the HT as well, no matter what entertainment you set-up be it movies/zwift rides/podcasts etc.. going over 3h on HT can get mentally very challenging!!!! It’s a long slow burn of boreness in a mental void . I hate Swimming I really do and I still think I am not genetically made for swimming, but this year instead of focusing on distance, I stopped using my garmin watch in the pool and focused on the time spend there doing drills and quality workouts. I had two weeks courses at my local swimming pool, this was a beginner and intermediate course but since we were just only 3 people it was mostly a group of beginners (and me a beginner that still can swim 4k in an IM very slowly). We had a 50m swimming pool for ourselves and a bunch of exercises to do. Which did help a lot to at least start enjoying going for swims,


 Ironman Mallorca 70.3 - May 11th 2019 (L)

Race Reporter: ChmouelTraining For my first race of the season I was in Mallorca for its annual 70.3 Ironman. As I am training to do in six weeks the full Ironman in Nice I had to test my legs with a race to make sure my training was going well. I am following a full distance Ironman program started by mid January. The training program is a lot of Z2/endurance workouts which goes from 12h to 17h a week over the six months of the training. By mid Feb I had an unfortunate knee injury while travelling due of not following properly my training plan, since I was not able to bike and swim I ran instead every day and catched the infamous “runners knee”. Obviously that was a mistake. I stopped running for a few weeks and then when the knee started to feel better, I only did some reduced and slower long runs and skipped the intervals or tempo workouts. Most of my cycling in winter was done on Zwift following the training program. When the weather was getting too cold or rainy I did some of my long endurance ride (over 4h) on the HT as well, no matter what entertainment you set-up be it movies/zwift rides/podcasts etc.. going over 3h on HT can get mentally very challenging!!!! It’s a long slow burn of boreness in a mental void . I hate Swimming I really do and I still think I am not genetically made for swimming, but this year instead of focusing on distance, I stopped using my garmin watch in the pool and focused on the time spend there doing drills and quality workouts. I had two weeks courses at my local swimming pool, this was a beginner and intermediate course but since we were just only 3 people it was mostly a group of beginners (and me a beginner that still can swim 4k in an IM very slowly). We had a 50m swimming pool for ourselves and a bunch of exercises to do. Which did help a lot to at least start enjoying going for swims,


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