Well I am a month out from my first 1/2IM- I have been following a training plan that is based on lactate balance point testing.
It has been going pretty well though this last week I totally fell off the wagon and didn't get all the scheduled workouts in ( I'm using the SNOW!!) as an excuse but could come up with even more lame excuses if I had too
Today was a big brick workout
3hr bike followed by 1 hr run.
It was all done -20 LBP - so it wasn't particularly difficult- it was a gorgeuos day so that was great.
I am slightly concerned though that all this training ( the long stuff) is done at -20 LBP- and because the training program is always given in minutes and hrs- not distance ....and becasue I am slowwwww I feel like I have not put in the right distance-
I understand slow is good for the LSD but maybe I should be spending more time than the plan calls for because come race day it won't be just a 6 hr race- ( at least for me).
To give an example today the3 hr bike at -20LBP I covered approx 65km and in the run I just covered about 8 km!!! Yikes- I don't feel like I am getting the distance part of the LSD- ( I got the slow covered!)
What do you think?
Should I just add 15-30 min to the given workouts because I am not covering the distance or should I just stick with the plan??
Thanks in advance