Reverse Brick Training

Most people call a run off the bike brick training. However, it's called brick training because you build the session like stacking bricks - bike/run/bike/run etc. These sessions are amongst my favourite, mainly because I am convinced that these efforts train one to run off the bike at a decent pace. True, the legs still feel like jelly; but you can run fast!

With duathlon being my focus now, I have been doing what I term as reverse brick sessions. I am sure that someone has called this type of sessions something different already! In triathlon, we want to run well off the bike. Whilst we also want to run well off the bike in duathlon, you could argue that it is more important to ride well after the first run. In the duathlons that I have raced in the bike leg feels terrible after the first 10k. It makes sense to me to, when training for duathlon, mash the legs by running; then mash the legs on the bike! That's what I have been doing - boy the bike (all turbo) is hard. Today I ran 10 miles pushing the hills - and the hills are monsters - followed by 30 mins of efforts on the turbo (no warm up required). Let's add some conditioning sessions and we should have the basis of a plan!!

Up the Du. 8-)