Training
Slow, Holistic Training to Become Faster
Back in the day
2020 was my 50th anniversary of being an endurance athlete. when I started running in 1970, there were no running shoes much less running stores. I ran in my army boots for several years until I upgraded to pair of orange boat shoes. clearly remember them. I bought this upgrade at Sears. They were orange and I paid $5.95 for them. I got my money worth from the shoes in that I ran in them for a couple of years.
Frank Shorter’s gold medal in 1972 Olympic Marathon inspired me. In 1976, he won the silver medal in Olympic Marathon and I was again inspired by his achievement but this time I did something about it. I completed the 1977 Marine Coprs Marathon in Washington, D.C., in 3:28.
80-20 training
heart rate zones
The success of the 80-20 rule is the easy days are really easy and the hard days are really hard. The zone 2 training builds an aerobic base for your more race specific anaerobic training.
heart rate zones
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The following are the average 70.3 times for the 70 to 74 age group.
Swim: 44:42
Bike: 3:20:07
Run: 2:52:25
Total 7:12:31
My goal times for HIMNC
The top 20 percent of my age groups times follow:
Swim: 37:08
Bike: 2:53:37
Run: 2:06:01
Total: 6:21:21
My goal times for HIMNC are as follows:
Swim: 40
Bike: 3:00
Run: 2:20
Transitions: 10
Total: 6:10