Triathlon: Olympic Distance Triathlon, Beginner Plan: 5.25 to 8 (or 10) hrs/wk, 12-week plan

Triathlon: Olympic Distance Triathlon, Beginner Plan: 5.25 to 8 (or 10) hrs/wk Author: Gale Bernhardt 12 weeks - $64.95 (There is a 10% discount when ordering from Gale Bernhardt’s website.) Total Hours: 62  You might be a beginning triathlete or maybe you have a couple of races under your belt from previous seasons. In either case you are fit and are NOT a beginning athlete. Before beginning Week 1 of the plan you are capable of riding a bike 30 to 60 minutes two days a week and completing a long ride around two hours on a third day. You can swim 100 yards (or meters) nonstop and swimming for 30 minutes a couple of times per week is easy. You can run two days per week, one 30-minute run and a longer run of 45 minutes.  With the profile in mind, have a look at the plan preview below. If the first week of training looks like a load you can handle, this is your plan. Weekly training hours range from 5:15 to a maximum between 8:15 and 10:00. There is some flexibility built into the pl