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60 Full distance triathlons in 60 days

9 points by justamazing 5y ago

justamazing 5y ago
That means 60 consecutive days of 3.8 km swimming, 180 km biking and 42.2 km running.
version_five 5y ago
I wish this person all the best. I tried running seven days a week for a while but kept getting injured and found that adding a rest day made all the difference. Right now I do ~90k a week, and I've often thought about trying something like 21k/day for a month, but been too worried about injury. I dont know how this person would mitigate the risk, or if hes just relying on the fact that he hasn't been injury prone in the past.
- justamazing 5y ago
  He has long experience how to move his boundaries: 2018 he did 20x ultratriathlon, 2019 40x.
- jfengel 5y ago
  Conventional wisdom calls for a mix of workouts: long distance, medium distance, intervals, cross training, and rest. Not only does this help prevent overtraining, it improves your performance at your chosen distance by recruiting a wider variety of muscles. In this guy's case he's doing a stunt. He'll probably do some damage, and hope to recover. Stunts like that often put you at the limit of what's possible with some (hopefully non-permanent) damage. That's what attracts the attention. I make no judgment on that, but it's not a good idea to adapt that to your training. Running a half-marathon every day is probably not great for you, especially if you find yourself prone to overtraining injuries. You'd be better off with the same mileage in more varied amounts -- though when it gets to the distance you're talking about, I'd say that miles after 20 count 2x to 3x as much in terms of the damage they do. Many coaches would say that mileage in excess of what you're doing contains a lot of "junk miles" that don't contribute much to the training effect. 21k/day would almost certainly put you in that category. Your mileage may vary, of course (as it were). I'm just offering up the convention wisdom; I don't know your case.

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60 Full distance triathlons in 60 days

9 points by justamazing 5y ago

justamazing 5y ago
That means 60 consecutive days of 3.8 km swimming, 180 km biking and 42.2 km running.
version_five 5y ago
I wish this person all the best. I tried running seven days a week for a while but kept getting injured and found that adding a rest day made all the difference. Right now I do ~90k a week, and I've often thought about trying something like 21k/day for a month, but been too worried about injury. I dont know how this person would mitigate the risk, or if hes just relying on the fact that he hasn't been injury prone in the past.
- justamazing 5y ago
  He has long experience how to move his boundaries: 2018 he did 20x ultratriathlon, 2019 40x.
- jfengel 5y ago
  Conventional wisdom calls for a mix of workouts: long distance, medium distance, intervals, cross training, and rest. Not only does this help prevent overtraining, it improves your performance at your chosen distance by recruiting a wider variety of muscles. In this guy's case he's doing a stunt. He'll probably do some damage, and hope to recover. Stunts like that often put you at the limit of what's possible with some (hopefully non-permanent) damage. That's what attracts the attention. I make no judgment on that, but it's not a good idea to adapt that to your training. Running a half-marathon every day is probably not great for you, especially if you find yourself prone to overtraining injuries. You'd be better off with the same mileage in more varied amounts -- though when it gets to the distance you're talking about, I'd say that miles after 20 count 2x to 3x as much in terms of the damage they do. Many coaches would say that mileage in excess of what you're doing contains a lot of "junk miles" that don't contribute much to the training effect. 21k/day would almost certainly put you in that category. Your mileage may vary, of course (as it were). I'm just offering up the convention wisdom; I don't know your case.