Here are my trailing 4-week average training volume charts which depict 2022 training volume relative to 2019-2021. 2019 was the year of my last IM (Arizona) where I KQed. Also that year, Anders and I went on a couple week mountaineering expo to Bolivia, and that impacted training volumes. 2020/2021 were heavily impacted by Kona....
First, for the swim....
2022 is my biggest early season swim training block in my 22 years of doing this. You can see that I've consistently been between 10-13k yards/week since late January. In fact, only 3 of the first 16 weeks has seen me doing less than 10k/week. My focus was replicating the first half of 2021 with an earlier ramp and you can see that I have executed this approach. The 2020 numbers were greatly impacted by CoVid:
I've been in "Bike Monster" mode beginning in 2019 post Bolivia (June) and you can see the big bike volume I've consistently put in. 2021 was especially a big early season effort and so far in 2022 I've exceeded that by a fair amount. 11 of my weeks have been 300+ miles and 3 have been above 400 miles/week:
On the run I'm continuing to track 2021 and am in the process of trying to slowly ramp up. 2019 volume was inflated by my Bolivia training and 2020 by CoVid:
In terms of total training time, I obviously put in a huge effort, especially in the early season. this year, I've been especially consistent. My last 4 weeks and 6 of the last 7 have been above 25 hours/week. In total I've been above 25 hours 11 times and 30 hours/week 2 times. I've only had 2 weeks were my training time was below 20 hours with my low point this year being 16.2 hours....
So far in 2022, here are my weekly volume averages:
Swim: 11,020 yards
Bike: 325 miles
Run: 7 miles
Time: 25 hours
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