Are you looking for a competitive edge? This month, we’re devoted to giving you tips on training for your first (or fifth!) endurance event safely & successfully.
What Are You Getting Into?
What is “endurance?” Simply put, endurance is your body’s ability to maintain uninterrupted exercise - involving your heart & your muscles. The higher your level of endurance, the easier it is for you to keep going at the same speed or intensity. Most sports have different levels of intensity and sometimes have breaks in between bouts of exercise. Running, cycling, and swimming and triathlon require that you maintain the same movements without stopping until you reach the finish line.
So You Want To Be a MultiSport Athlete!
Successful runners, cyclists, and swimmers, and triathletes typically devote four or more days a week to their training. The first step is to decide which event, including distance you want to try. In order for the training to be valuable, it must reflect, at least in part, the demands that the race will have on your body.
Take Your Pick
Here’s a sample of typical race distances in running, cycling, swimming, & triathlon:
RUN 5k run - 3.1 miles 10k run - 6.2 miles 15k run - 9.3 miles
Half Marathon - 13.1 miles Marathon - 26.2 miles
BIKE (road & mountain) Anywhere between 12 and 100 miles!
SWIM 740 meters to 5.5 miles
DUATHLON (RUN/BIKE/RUN) 5k/30k/5k -10k/60k/10k -10k/40k/5k
TRIATHLON (SWIM/BIKE/RUN) 750m/20km/5km -1.5km/40km/10km -1.9km/ 90km/21km -4 km/120 km/30 km -4 km/120 km/30 km
How to Train
As with most sports, proper planning is extremely important to reaching your endurance goal. To stay injury-free and motivated, it’s important to include strength training and flexibility into your training program. Because everyone’s starting point and goals are different, here are a few resources to get you started:
New England Junior Triathlon
Boston Training Schedules
Beginner Triathlete
TriathaNewbie
Contributed by CATZ (Competitive Athletic Training Zone)
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