Our April training day will be held on the 8th of April and will consist of three time trials:
1000m swim (UL pool)
20km bike (start from Herbert’s Pub)
5km run (UL Parkrun route)
We will also include time for disucssion on how to use your results to plan for the season. This is a great opportunity to check your fitness before the season starts, see where you have made improvements from last year and where the extra work needs to be put in before your first race of 2018.
A detailed schedule is as follows:
8.00 Registration at UL Pool
8.10 Warm up swim (Group 1)
8.20 1000m swim test
(Group 2 to count laps for Group 1)
Time open warm up (Group 2)
1000m swim test Group 2
(Group 1 count laps for Group 2)
10.00 Explanation on swim times how to calculate and what to look for
10.30 Leave UL for time trial route (Herbert’s Bar)
You can cycle or drive your choice
11.00 Start of 20k time trial (1 min intervals)
You will be given a number that will be the number you call out at end of TT
13.00 Food time
14.00 Start of 5k Run – Time trial groups to be decided based on attendance on the day
15.00 Time Trial results will be given to individual athletes
Please bring a USB KEY to down load your results as the run results will have the follows
Paces for each race from 1 mile to marathon
Paces for tempo runs
Paces for track session
Heart rates for all session and recovery heart rate
(If you have your weight that morning an index will be included)
Please have a heart rate monitor for the best results
