Season planning - how many races should you do in one year? | EP#317

That Triathlon Show

Mikael Eriksson

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

4.9 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, coaches Helle Frederiksen, Philipp Seipp and Emma Carney each give their perspective and recommendations on how many races you can do in a season without sacrificing performance. IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN ABOUT: -The difference between different race distances (from super sprint to Ironman) -The physical and mental costs of racing, and the opportunity costs of missed training -How many races can you do at a high level of performance for different distances -How to think about placing these races in your season calendar -Differences between pros and age-groupers when it comes to race planning SHOWNOTES: https://scientifictriathlon.com/tts317/ SCIENTIFIC TRIATHLON AND THAT TRIATHLON SHOW WEBPAGE: www.scientifictriathlon.com/podcast/ SPONSORS: Precision Hydration - Want to optimise your performance in hot or humid conditions, avoid cramping, and make sure your hydration is on point? Take PH's free online Sweat Test to get personalised hydration strategy. Also use the Quick Carb Calculator to get fueling recommendations, and book a free one-on-one consultation to refine your hydration and fueling strategy. Use the promo code THATTRIATHLONSHOW15 to get 15% off your first order of PH electrolytes or the Precision Fuel range. ROKA - Exceptional quality triathlon wetsuits, trisuits, swimskins, goggles, performance sunglasses as well as prescription eyeglasses and sunglasses. Online vision test for prescription updates and home try-on options available for eyeglasses. Ships from the US, UK and EU. Trusted by world-leading athletes such as Lucy Charles-Barclay, Javier Gómez Noya, Flora Duffy, Morgan Pearson, Summer Rappaport and others in triathlon, cycling, speed skating, and many more. Visit roka.com/tts for 20% off your order. LINKS AND RESOURCES: Helle's Twitter, Instagram, and website Philipp's Instagram and website Emma's Twitter, Instagram, and website Season break - best practices of top coaches | EP#314 Training Talk with Helle Frederiksen | EP#279 Philipp Seipp – coach of Sebastian Kienle and Laura Philipp | EP#219 Training Talk with coach Emma Carney (double ITU World Champion) | EP#276 RATE AND REVIEW: If you enjoy the show, please help me out by subscribing, rating and reviewing: www.scientifictriathlon.com/rate/ CONTACT: Want to send feedback, questions or just chat? Email me at mikael@scientifictriathlon.com or connect on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Traathlon Show, 317.
0:17.6	Hey, what's up, everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Triathlon Show, the podcast
0:23.6	presented by Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm our host Michael and on today's episode, I interview
0:29.6	Helle Fredrickson, Philip Saip and Emma Carney. They're back. As we did three years ago,
0:34.9	we're going to tackle a topic and each of them will give their
0:38.0	opinions and perspectives on that. And the topic that we are discussing today is race planning.
0:44.6	So how many races can you do per year and still perform? When should you place those races and so
0:50.1	on? It's a really interesting topic and I think you'll find it very useful.
0:58.4	If you want to check out the previous episodes with these three coaches that I have on today,
1:03.7	check out, well, first and foremost, episode 314, which was just three weeks ago when we discussed taking a season break. But then their individual episodes are in 279 for Helle Fredrickson,
1:09.9	219 for Philip Saip and 276 for Emma Carney.
1:14.8	You'll find links to those episodes as well as each person's social media and website
1:19.8	in the episode description and in the show notes. But before we get into the interview,
1:24.8	big thanks to our sponsors, precision hydration. Precision hydration create electrolyte products that you can match to how you sweat and fueling products
1:31.7	that make it easy for you to hit your numbers.
1:34.2	For electrolytes and sodium, remember that we all have very different sweat rates and different
1:39.1	sweat sodium concentrations.
1:41.1	So, for example, I personally lose more than 2,000 milligrams of sodium per
1:44.8	liter of sweat, but somebody else might lose just 500 milligrams per liter or even less than
1:51.6	that, potentially. Also, that is amplified by the sweat rate. So if I might be sweating
1:57.2	two liters per hour when I'm running really hard in a hot, relatively hot race,
2:02.7	but some other people might sweat just 0.8 liters per hour.
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