TRI247 WORKOUT SERIES

Every Wednesday at 7pm UK-time, TRI247 present a triathlon focused workout brought to you by a guest 'coach.' This will include sessions by pro triathletes, coaches and notable characters associated with the sport.

The workouts are about 60 minutes long and designed to add variety and interest to your weekly training schedule.

THE SESSION

This session is a follow-up to last week's 'A bit of speed too' set. Hence, a bit 'more'!

As triathletes, steady-state / threshold type efforts in racing and training are our strength – but sometimes you need to break away a little from that style of training to improve and stimulate your body in different ways. This session includes some short, but hard intervals to touch some of those higher watts and zones that you may not typically visit, but doing so after first building some fatigue through some more traditional threshold and sub-threshold work. We are not looking for 'max' power – more the ability to hit some good numbers while tired.

You won't become Mark Cavendish overnight – but hopefully a change is as good as a rest…

WORKOUT LEADER

This week’s session has been set by TRI247 Editor, John Levison.

A triathlete for approaching 30 years, John doesn't race too much himself these days (but still doesn't want to 'retire'), but spends almost all of his hours either writing on TRI247.com or as a commentator at many U.K. and major international events, including Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Series races. Zwift is his 'go to' cycling resource, and he is enjoying compiling a range of varied sessions for the TRI247 Workout Series.

To download the ZWO file for this and previous workouts go to http://www.tri247.comOpens a new window

ABOUT GROUP WORKOUTS

Zwifters line up in the starting area just like a normal event and once the event starts, workout mode begins. Everyone stays together regardless of power output. That's right, if you're outputting 100W and another Zwifter is outputting 400W you will stay in exactly the same position relative to each other. Only if you stop pedaling and fall 6 meters behind the group will the rubber-banding stop.

HELPFUL HINT

We highly recommend doing one of the FTP tests as the estimated FTP can be inaccurate and make the difficulty level of the workouts too high for your current fitness level.