Q&A #14 - Half marathon training with cycling as cross-training, maintaining run fitness during a swim-bike focus block, and my best coaching advice to you for 2019

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

Health, Swimming, Endurancesports, Run, Cycling, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Ironman, Swim, Bike, Sports, Running, Sportscience, Triathlon

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Q&A #14 - Half marathon training with cycling as cross-training, maintaining run fitness during a swim-bike focus block, and my best coaching advice to you for 2019 How should you use cycling as cross-training when training for a half marathon? How can you maintain a high level of run fitness after a running block when turning the focus to swimming and biking? My Best Coaching Advice for 2019 - it starts with looking at your 2018 accumulated training hours. LINKS AND RESOURCES: That Triathlon Show website Coaching Training Plans Training Priorities: Seiler's Hierarchy of Endurance Training Needs | EP#120 Heat, humidity, wind, and slush drinks: cool down your body to go harder for longer with Andrew Buckrell | EP#160 Introducing elite triathlete and Scientific Triathlon coach James Teagle | EP#161 SPONSORS: Stac - The Stac Zero is the world's quietest bike trainer. No noise and no tire wear, since it doesn't even touch the tire! It is also very portable and affordable. Even more so when using the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW for 20% off when you buy your Stac bike trainer (any of the models). ROKA - The finest triathlon wetsuits, apparel, equipment, and eyewear on the planet. Trusted by Javier Gómez, Gwen Jorgensen, Flora Duffy, Mario Mola, Lucy Charles and others. Now shipping directly from the UK and EU. Get 20% off your entire order with the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW. RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing. CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Twitter - my handle is @SciTriat.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to that triathlon show, the podcast presented by
0:08.0	Scientific Traathlon.com. I'm your host Michael and this episode is Q&A number 14. I hope you had a wonderful
0:16.1	Christmas and are getting ready for a great new year. Remember that for these Q&A episodes,
0:21.9	you can send in your questions to my email,
0:24.3	Michael at Scientific Triathlon.com,
0:26.1	and that's Michael Woodo K.
0:27.3	Or send them on Facebook Messenger.
0:29.3	There's a widget on my website,
0:31.1	Scientificriathlon.com,
0:32.3	where you can just pop in your question
0:34.2	and send it over,
0:35.3	and I'll put it in the waiting line
0:37.0	to get answered on one of the future Q&A episodes coming up.
0:41.5	Before we get into today's questions, let's thank our sponsors.
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0:48.4	That's STAC zero spelled out.com.
0:51.3	They make the words quietest indoor bike trainers. They use magnets rather than
0:56.7	a resistance flywheel and that also saves your tires. You don't have any unnecessary wear
1:02.2	and tear. You don't need to worry about having a separate indoor trainer tire on all those sorts
1:06.8	of things. I remember when I first started training indoors in the early days of my
1:11.6	triathlon career, I did in fact use to have an indoor training tire, but I didn't have any spare
1:17.7	wheels, which was kind of stupid, but then whenever I wanted to go outside on the weekends to ride,
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