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My brick workout order was backwards for 8 weeks until a running coach pointed it out
I started doing brick sessions like bike then run, but I was hammering the bike part way too hard and then crawling through the run. A coach at my local YMCA in Dayton watched me one Saturday and said "you're racing the bike, not training for the run." That clicked. I backed off the bike to a steady effort, kept my cadence around 90, and suddenly my run splits dropped by almost a minute per mile. Took me 8 weeks of dumb suffering to figure out the point of a brick is feeling heavy legs and staying calm, not proving anything on the road. Anyone else make the same mistake when they first started stacking disciplines?
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jamie60223d ago
Man, you just described my entire first season of tri training. I did the exact same thing, treating the bike like it was its own race and then wondering why my legs felt like wet cement for the run. Nobody told me the whole point is to teach your body to run on tired legs, not to crush every ride like it's race day. I kept staring at my bike speed going up while my run pace fell apart, and it took watching a guy twice my age pass me on the run to finally get it. Once I dropped the ego and settled into a steady effort on the bike, the run stopped feeling like survival mode. Eight weeks is a rough lesson but at least it stuck, that's what matters. Did your coach give you any specific heart rate or power zone to hold on the bike after that?
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