Train….
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I agree with that at all @Poet
Running Berlin marathon in 2 weeks - I am running with Mrs T - for sure we could do it separately and try to get the best times we can but I will get more pleasure out of seeing her run a good time for her given all the support she has given over years of pursuing silly hobbies such as this
I do still want to do events that challenge me (on the finish rather than pb front) - events like UTMB for example - that is where I think the consistency is important especially as I get older
Work can be super demanding at times which gets in the way but as others have said, the exercise thing is really just a hobby at the end of the day
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A very understanding wife, so I’m constantly reminded.
It’s pretty much doing the same thing week in/week out and adjusting session lengths & intensities as we build to an event or recover from one
I’m home based for work now which makes life easier and during the first lockdown we built “the gym” in the garden so I can bike or run on Zwift if the weather is rubbish or its dark(it’s been handy for some heat acclimation sessions)
Being flexible and shifting sessions about where necessary but keeping an eye on the spacing and recovery from sessions. Running or biking to/from family days out is another way. Biking home from a Sunday Roast is good training for the gut 
Kona is the focus for now and the build up for the remaining few weeks.
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You had one chance to beat me, and you didn’t. Isn’t that your one thing?
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It still haunts me to this day…
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It was that searing 4:22 first km I put in out of T2. I paid for that 
I’m going to go with “health”.
I think health encompasses sleep, excess bodyfat, blood pressure, sickness, stress and injury.
Whilst my training is imperfect, I don’t think it’s my main blocker anymore. Health may unlock my run potential.
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It’s probably been thought of somewhere before, probably loads of places, but I feel like I have kind of stumbled across a training idea which might suit hobby AGers like us who want to do the best they can, while living normal busy lives, being normal people, and so on.
The way it works is that you only programme in 3 sessions per week.
- One is an endurance session.
- one in a race pace session.
- one is an interval session at faster than race pace.
They can be in any discipline, but you need to go at them hard.
You can do other stuff too, and probably should, but don’t need to give the other stuff too much thought because the 3 key sessions are where you will do your improving. So the other stuff can be fun, social, unpaced, whatever gets you out the door/ in the cave.
Does that sound at all reasonable?
Disclaimer : it’s a bank holiday tomorrow and I have been exploring the adult beverages
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I suppose it’s just the 80:20 rule really. Or maybe 60:40 rule or , er, 40:60 rule
Yes, most of us are probably guilty of trying to do too many quality sessions in a week and end up not doing it right, e.g. going really hard on a hard day.
And consistent sleep and diet!
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The meat and veg is the easy stuff, not the hard stuff, so I’d say no. Your key sessions should be aerobic, the cake is the hard stuff.
Swimming. Swimming. I need to learn how to swim. I mean, obviously I can swim, in the sense that I just did 2.6km in the lake tonight, but I can’t swim fast or efficiently. I have no idea how to swim well. No, that is a lie. I have a pretty good idea that to swim well you need to swim often, and my habit of swimming once per week is not sufficient, so perhaps that changes my answer from “swim” to “train the things you are weak at”
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Lol, definitely had my beer head on yesterday afternoon.
Guess my point is more that having just 3 key sessions per week feels manageable and might help consistency. Also can space them all out so 48h+ apart.
Sounds a bit obvious reading it back 
Personally I like higher intensity aerobic training, and am sure it helps for shorter events, but yeah guess we are all different and have different goals. Eg. Not sure my mate who did the deca did any high intensity training ever, but he got round 10 IMs in 10 days, total Mr Diesel, I would have been broken by day 2 if not before.
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I think you’ve got this right. The simpler the plan, for busy people, the better. And some kind of imperative to get it done.
It’s very difficult to do quality workouts with other people around unless they are at the same level and on the same plan as you.
Actually online allows for that…I might start up regular group TR sessions.
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Two things, flexibility and diet.
I never really stretch or do any yoga/pilates, my core strength is also abismal. I basically need to take better care of my body as a whole- I can no longer go and bash out a century on a Sunday without it hurting me for the rest of the week.
And diet often slips- I never massively over eat, but I get lazy some days and rather than prepare something proper I will just eat a load of crap from the cupboard.
I need to be better than that.
With both these things the root problem is probably mental- so toughen up princess and don’t cut corners.
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Almost wrote something like that myself last weekend. Did a 100 and as usual felt absolutely trashed all day on Monday. Probably a combination of
too far (compared to previous rides)
too fast
didn’t eat enough!
Been an issue for quite a few years
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Some sleep please 
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I’m not going to answer this question as every member here knows the answer
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Diet.
Plain and simple.
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