length of bricks

[HillSlugger]

Bricks? As a non-Tri woman I am having fun trying to figure out what this is

A "brick" is a bike ride followed as quickly as possible by a run.

[Catrin]

A "brick" is a bike ride followed as quickly as possible by a run.

Thanks - I was trying to figure it out and while I had some amusing images on this, I knew that I probably wasn't in the ballpark

[tribogota]

after cycling a 10-20 minute run, just to get the muscle memory

[kacie tri-ing]

I just looked back in my log--
Before my first HIM in New Orleans, I did a 1.5 hour ride followed by a 1 hour run.
Before the Augusta 70.3, I did a 2.5 hour ride followed by a 1.5 hour run. Funny how I don't remember that. Sounds pretty bad

The rest of my bricks are pretty short, but my coach write in one long one too.

[Tri Girl]

I've never specifically trained for a half, only IM (but did a half as part of my training). My longest brick was 1:40. I did LOTS of hour bricks in training (after that looonng Saturday ride there was always a brick and it was usually 1 hr). I think you could definitely keep it at an hour or under for the half.

On Sundays I always did a run-bike-run to get in a long run without all the pounding. The longest I did was a 2 hr run, 1:30 bike and a 30 min. run. For a half, I would probably do a 1 hr. run, 1 hr or 45 min. bike, 10-20 min. run.



V: I like the idea of doing lots of mini-bricks. Ride 7 miles, run a mile, etc. Those sound smaller (easier for me to wrap my mind around) and a constant change. Running RIGHT off the bike is always the hardest for me, too. After a mile I'm usually OK, but that first mile is painful. I will have to try that! Thanks!