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I'm coach Jonathan Lee and I'm here with coach Chad Timmerman. Hello, and our CEO Nate Pearson. Hello

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Without any further ado, let's get into it with John's question

John says I'm new to trainer road and after seven years in triathlon

I am training for my first full-distance Ironman in May

I just started the full-distance build plan and that's one of our training plans and have been impressed with how comprehensive

A training plan is it is including very detailed workouts for swim and run as well as bike

However, as a look ahead to the full-distance specialty plan and for those that don't know our training plans are broken up into three phases

And you piece them together to fit your situation better

So there's a base phase build phase and a specialty phase

So he's heading into this specialty phase and he says as I look ahead to the full-distance specialty plan the detail for the swim

One swim and run workouts disappears. Do you have any plans to add in more detail for the specialty phase?

Yeah, John what it boils down to is I'm one man

So I'm doing the best I can and those are next in line and in fact

I'm working on them right now sprint and Olympic is done

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