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Location: Pretoria Gauteng South Africa
I've never really been much of an athlete. Ever since school, I was a bit of an IT geek. I did sports here and there, but I was always at the back of the pack gasping for air. I started mountain biking in 2006 and have since completed a few mtb marathons and a 90km road race or two... on the mtb. I got into multi-sport events in December '07 and have since completed a couple of Adventure Races and Sprint-Triathlons. Being in southern hemisphere, my goal is to get through winter without getting a cold / interrupting my training programme. I would like to do a multi-day Adventure Race and complete an Olympic distance Triathlon early in summer. I'd also like to do the 70.3 IronMan in Jan, but I might be in Canada during that time... let's see. My favorite sports include: cycling, running, swimming, adventure racing, triathlons, rowing, golf and hiking.
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Strength Training - 0.3 hours - 05/20/2008
May 21st, 2008 3:38 pm
bigdave_nv says:
I’d get the tri one if I was buying today. actually, I just started training for tris this year. last year, I started biking after many years of running (ok, jogging) & that’s when I got the friel cycling bible. probably either one would give you the friel training philosophy. I'’ve been trying to pay attention at least to the weekly hours and the overall base-build-peak periods. except, ok, I cheated on base: I rationalized that I was still pretty fit from the prior year, (2007 I trained about maybe 450-550 hours) even though I had taken the 8 weeks prior to end of december pretty light.
friel has a lot of information to offer to us “advanced-beginner” type athletes & the price of the book is much more justifiable than consulting with a coach. you’ll get a lot more serious about planning your training.
friel also has a website and some blogs, which i just discovered yesterday in the course of sending you those links. http://www2.trainingbible.com/joesblog/
ok, I wrote my own book here. have a good one m8.