Welcome to another episode of Ask Coach Parry. Ahead of the upcoming Ironman 70.3 we have a question in from Adriaan Venter. He says he is doing the Ironman 70.3 in East London next weekend.

He therefore hasn’t started his Comrades Marathon training as yet. He says his running kilometers for January will be much less than what is prescribed on your Comrades Marathon training programmes.

Would it be ok to just pick up with February training for a bronze medal? Or how would you suggest he goes about adapting his training?

Transcript

Brad Brown:Welcome to another episode of Ask Coach Parry. Ahead of the upcoming Ironman 70.3 we have a question in from Adriaan Venter. He says he is doing the Ironman 70.3 in East London next weekend.

He therefore hasn’t started his Comrades Marathon training as yet. He says his running kilometers for January will be much less than what is prescribed on your Comrades Marathon training programmes.

Would it be ok to just pick up with February training for a bronze medal? Or how would you suggest he goes about adapting his training?

Lindsey Parry: The fact that he is going to be at a very good general preparedness level where you are still swimming and cycling and doing a little bit of running, means that he is probably actually going to slightly ahead of the fitness curve.

I think when he starts running in February, one of the things he needs to watch out for is that he doesn’t do a little bit too much based on his fitness.

What Does He Need To Do?

He needs to effectively draw a straight line from where his running is now and where it needs to be on the 1st of March.

Because he is fit, he will be able to build up quicker than the normal 10% rule. Effectively he wants to catch up with the programme and then 1 March be fully onto the programme.