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#50 - Nailing Race Week, The Taper, and Predicting Your Race Time...Plus, Open Water Swimming

#50 - Nailing Race Week, The Taper, and Predicting Your Race Time...Plus, Open Water Swimming

FromCrushing Iron Triathlon Podcast


#50 - Nailing Race Week, The Taper, and Predicting Your Race Time...Plus, Open Water Swimming

FromCrushing Iron Triathlon Podcast

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Please Share the Crushing Iron podcast with your friends or triathlon groups. We all think we have race week planned perfectly until it shows up. Today we walk through how much you should swim, bike, run and when. We also talk about nutrition, including when and how much water and electrolytes you should be consuming race week. There's also great information on how to accurately predict your race time, along with some more DON'T DOs regarding Open Water Swim Training.  - Race week Volume for Swim, Bike, and Run - The keys of a good taper week - Electrolyte and water consumption - What to do the day before the race - Why swimming on race week is so important - Why cycling and swimming during race week are different than running - What percentages you should use to predict your race time - A surefire and easy way to detect whether you're training too hard for your shape - How to get a good feel for the water Please subscribe and comment on iTunes Share this podcast with your friends email questions to: CrushingIron@gmail.com www.crushingiron.com 
Released:
Apr 27, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Crushing Iron is an age grouper and his coach talking and learning about triathlon. Together they explore the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual side of training and racing everything from a Sprint to an Ironman. Great for beginners and intermediates triathletes. Released every Monday and Thursday.