Week 2 - October 16th thru 22nd
House Keeping Notes
1. Weekly Schedules are NOT Password Protected
2. FALL/WINTER Saturday Meeting time @ 7:30 am
3. Weekly Strength with Colleen @ 4:30 pm on Monday’s and Thursday’s via Zoom Virtual
personal meeting id #: 463-600-3626…password: 103802
cost = $45/month payable thru Venmo @ the beginning of each month…@Darren-DeReuck
4. Core/Strength with Darren on Zoom @ 11:00 am on Tuesday
Core/Abs with Darren on Zoom @ 11:00 am on Thursday
30 min class - $5 and payable thru Venmo (@Darren-DeReuck)
meeting #: 463-600-3626…password: 103802
5. Discount Code for Zealios Products: ZupBOULDERSTRIDERS
Website: www.teamzealios.com [2]
Monday 16th Cross Train Day
Lift Weights/Pilates (Mat or Reformer)/Yoga – 45 to 60 minutes
Tuesday 17th Easy/Light Run 35-40 minutes
Include 5 x 30 sec light strides…45 sec walk/run
do light strides after 20 minutes of running
Wednesday 18th Group Fartlek Workout
East Boulder Rec @ 6:30 am OR 5:30 pm
Warm Up 15 min/Stretch/4 x 30 sec light strides…45 sec walk/run
4 x 4 min @ half marathon effort...2 min walk/run
take 2 min active rest after fourth 4 min
4 x 2 min @ 10 km effort...60 sec walk/run
active rest = walk/slow run recovery
Cool Down 5-10 minutes
Thursday 19th Cross Train Day
Lift Weights/Pilates (Mat or Reformer)/Yoga – 45 to 60 minutes
Friday 20th Shake-Out Run 35-40 minutes
Include 4 x 45 sec light strides…60 sec walk/run
Saturday 21st Tempo/Light Sustain Workout – Lefthand Trailhead @ 7:30 am
Warm Up 15 min/Stretch/4 x 30 sec strides…45 sec walk/run
10 min @ marathon pace…3 min active rest
2 min @ half marathon pace…1 min active rest
4 x 45 sec @ 10 km pace...45 sec walk/run
take 90 sec active rest after fourth 45 sec
9 min @ marathon pace…3 min active rest
3 min @ half marathon pace…2 min active rest
4 x 45 sec @ 10 km pace...45 sec walk/run
active rest = walk/slow run recovery
Cool Down 5-10 minutes
Sunday 22nd Easy Long Run - 70 minutes
Time on Legs/Relaxed Pace/Hydrate on the Run
5 min Walk Cool Down
Easy/Light/Recovery Run - Conversational Pace/Relaxed Effort
Long Run – 60-90 sec Slower than your Marathon Goal Pace
Tempo/Sustained - Run between 70-80% Effort of Max
Fartlek – Playing with Fast/Slow Speed
Hills - Work on Good Form (drive with arms/relax the shoulders/get up on toes/quick
turnover/mid-foot strike on the downs/look 5-10 feet in front of yourself)
Meeting Places
East Boulder Rec - follow Baseline east to 55th St. Take a right on 55th and follow the road until the sharp left turn and go past the 1st parking lot and tennis courts towards the Rec Center. Park on the West Side of the Rec Center Lot close to the tennis courts
Lefthand Trailhead - follow Highway 36 north until Neva Road…take a right on Neva and go about a mile…trailhead will be on the right. If you coming from the east side take a left off of 63rd onto Niwot and go west thru the s- bend…trailhead will be on your left about a mile up
Coach's Notes
Winter Base Week 2…schedules are NOT PASSWORD PROTECTED…Fartlek on Wednesday and Tempo/Light Sustain on Saturday.
Have an AWESOME Week Everyone!!!
Which is HARDER…Marathon or Ironman Training?
A team of researchers settles the debate once and for all. Put an Ironman competitor and a marathoner in the same room, and it will inevitably turn into a battle of the one-ups: “I run a marathon after a 112-mile bike ride in the heat!” the Ironman triathlete boasts. “Shuffling doesn’t count!” the marathoner retorts. “I actually run!”
And so it goes. Though there’s really no way to quantify which race is actually harder (suffering, after all, is individual), an international team of researchers compared the training load of the two events to see if one has more impact than the other.
“It is a study based on the typical friends’ conversation comparing ‘what’s tougher?’ says lead researcher Jonathan Esteve-Llano, “Dr. Cejuela, Dr. Cardona, Dr. Moreno-Perez and I are also professional coaches. That’s why most of our research is like this, trying to solve our daily questions, searching for our needs, with the scope of improving our training programs.”
After identifying 15 marathoners and 15 Ironman triathletes at comparable age, weight, body type, VO2max levels, endurance experience, and performance levels, the researchers put their athletes to work training for their respective events. Using an analysis of physiological data and daily training logs, the researchers calculated several ratios involving training load, training time, competition time.
The result? The preparation for a marathon is harder. Much of this has to do with the concentration of the training—Ironman training typically has more volume, but less intensity, than a typical marathon training protocol. This may help to explain why training for a stand-alone marathon, especially one involving a PR or Boston qualification time, can leave even the steeliest Ironman triathletes feeling wrecked.
“We do not try to fade the achievement of an Ironman-distance training at all, but in terms of amount of load per time unit, it showed to be harder the average marathon training dose,” says Esteve-Llano.
Though this puts an end to the “whose training is harder” debate, we suspect there will still be much smack talk between the two crowds of endurance athletes. There is, after all, so much fodder for it: tri shorts vs split shorts, all the gadgets vs. running tech-free, and, of course, the always-heated debate about body hair.
I guess Runners Rule and Triathletes need to Respect runners more.