The Ironman Training Deep Dive: What Triathletes Need to Know
That Triathlon Show
Mikael Eriksson
4.9 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to that Traflon show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traflon and hosted by me, Michael |
| 0:14.4 | Erikson. With me again today in the co-hosting chair is Jack Hutchens. Jack, you look like you've |
| 0:20.0 | been out training. So how are you doing? |
| 0:21.9 | And what was on the schedule for today? Hey, Michael. Thanks for having me again. Yeah, I've just been for a little |
| 0:26.4 | ram. It's actually my kind of rest or recovery day today, active recovery day, I would say. |
| 0:31.7 | So just three, was it three and a half k swim this morning and a 90 minute super easy jog that I just |
| 0:41.5 | did then so yeah feeling a bit tired but nice to keep the body moving what about you how's |
| 0:48.0 | your day going pretty good yeah I did a bit of a tempo run I did three by 16 minutes at marathon pace with four minutes rest. |
| 0:58.4 | So that was, I've been during the early stages of the winter, |
| 1:02.7 | I was doing more V-O-2 and threshold-focused work, |
| 1:05.2 | and now the intensity is slowly coming down, |
| 1:07.9 | and the durations of the intervals are getting longer |
| 1:09.7 | as some races are approaching. |
| 1:11.8 | I'm actually only two, two and a half weeks away from a 40K trail race. |
| 1:17.5 | So maybe I'll update the listeners on that after that's done in the final weekend of the month. |
| 1:23.8 | But yeah, it's a good day, good day and excited to chat about today's main topic, which is Iron Man training. How, yeah, how are you feeling about about this chat? |
| 1:35.5 | I have to ask, what is marathon pace? Marathon pace is about 350 per K. So, so that's, yeah, that's like 240, 41, 242, I think right now. So my next marathon, which we |
| 1:47.7 | talked about a little bit, I hope to go sub 240, but I don't have a marathon on the schedule |
| 1:52.8 | yet. I need to register for one and it will likely be the end of the end of the year. So I hope |
| 1:57.2 | that it will be a bit quicker by then, maybe getting down to 345 per K or at least something like 347, 348. |
| 2:04.7 | Nice, yeah, that's some serious running there. |
| 2:07.0 | I don't know if you saw the half marathon world record. |
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