Triathlon and “Wet Run”

When I first heard this expression and thought about running and what makes people run after finishing the bike and swim in triathlon.  The wet run is real; it is just for intelligent triathletes. As we mentioned in this blog, there are benchmarks that are needed in order to perform in triathlon.  Swimming in 16:30 and biking a 5k on flat surface in 6:45 is necessary to speak of “wet run.”  This post comes after looking at the numbers from Alistair Brownlee´s coach posted by Alfonso Andreu.

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Alistair is able to run just 30 seconds slower when competing in triathlon that when checking a 10k running on a track without swimming and biking.  SURE, ALISTAIR BROWNLEE CAN DO A WET RUN, because he warms up while swimming and biking.  It is not his fault that people do not work while swimming and riding the bike; although, he sometimes like to play “cat and mouse” with rivals and starts fast since the beginning.  One needs training swimming and biking efficiency to stay with the pack and be able to do a “wet run.”  Of course, you should know how to run fast to be the winner.

I know elite triathletes that can run faster than Alistair, but they are not efficient while swimming and biking even though they can stay with the pack.  They are unable to have a “wet run” in those conditions.  They can lose up to 4 minutes running if they are unable to swim or bike the benchmarks I mentioned above.

Please read our series of Physiology for Dummies to understand our point better.

 

ITU CONFERENCES AND TRIATHLON

It has been 3000 years since we have heard the saying: “Nothing new under the sun.”

Ecclesiastes 1:9

What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun

I read just tweets from the conferences.  There is joke in Mexico:  The traditional doctor went to see a community where he worked and decided to try Bamboo as a curative plant.  He decided to give bamboo soups for the critically ill; bamboo salads for cancer; raw bamboo for diarrheas.  He left the village and returned two weeks later.  The villagers were waiting for him with many questions.  Our doctor said to the villagers, how is everybody doing?  The villagers answered:  “everybody died.”  He just paused a moment and said:  “Well, bamboo does not work.”

We need common sense to start a research.  In Mexico, the Mexican Federation tests 400 meters swimming and 1k running to choose talent.  Repeatedly, they have learned that the way of choosing talent does not work.  Since they started with the protocol, born in 1990, almost all of the ones that were able to do the times are gone.  The one staying competing who had the times does not win any local race.  How can you equate 1k of running to the 5k after swimming and biking?  Is this common sense?  It is like the above joke.  Talent is someplace else.

20 juin 2012

LOOKING FOR AN EDGE

24 mai 2012

TALENT IDENTIFICACION

I appreciate the information given by Andreu Alfonso twitting the information.

1. #TriScience Sobre recuperación. Meta-análisis sobre baños de agua fría: tienen efecto moderado tras ejercicio moderado o ligero.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Sobre recuperación. Meta-análisis sobre baños de agua fría: tienen gran efecto post-ejercicio alta intensidad.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience S. Ingham "la máxima capacidad de asimilación de carga no siempre coincide con la máxima capacidad de entrenamiento".

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Según S. Ingham:los casos d sobreentrenamiento son raros en atletismo (carrera),pero los problemas con la carga mecánica,altos

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience 3 atletas diagnosticados sobreentrenados mejoran su marca ese año (cambios en la planific debido al descanso obligatorio???)

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience El English Institute of Sport tiene 9 centros y 250 personas trabajando. Conferencia de STeve Ingham, jefe de fisiología EIS

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Algunas "verdades" probadas según Stephen Seiler sobre el entrenamiento de resistencia. pic.twitter.com/HwmxA5vi

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Ejemplo de semana de entrenamiento de Alistair Brownlee pic.twitter.com/5xlSDsdf

Do you believe that Alistair rode easy for four hours?

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Consejos para entrenadores sobre como abordar/evitar posibles desórdenes alimentarios: pic.twitter.com/w948eIQs

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience A los que pedís fuentes, en cuanto tenga las ponencias os las paso, no puedo tuitearlo todo ;-)

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience en estudio d 2002 sobre 203 triatletas élite y grupos edad, el 50% d las mujeres y el 27% d los hombres, desórdenes alimentarios

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Nos habla de los desórdenes que han sufrido Hollie Avil, Jodie Swallow y Crissie Wellington entre otras mujeres famosas.

PLEASE SEE Talent Identification in our blog. Education is the bottom line.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Las pérdidas rápidas de peso ocasionan gran pérdida de fuerza y suelen producir efecto rebote.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Buscar el mínimo peso puede ocasionar desórdenes alimentarios si no se hace progradamente y tutelado por un profesional:

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience Las prioridades al pasar d junior a sub23 deberían ser aprender a entrenar y competir efectivamente y a alimentarse correctament

What it says is that education is everything.  NOTHING NEW!  Do you believe that at 18 years of age you can teach something to somebody from scratch?  They need to be very good students before getting to this point. 

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience ¿Se puede estar demasiado delgado?SI y tiene un impacto negativo sobre el rendimiento por que puede dificultar el entrenamiento.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience El %de grasa/musculo "ideal" deber ser personalizado y alcanzado de forma MUY progresiva

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience En la actualidad, el biotipo de los triatletas es más parecido al de los atletas de fondo que al de los nadadores.

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience En la natación, extremidades largas y un determinado porcentaje d grasa que aumenta la flotabilidad y reduce el drag,son óptimas

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience La morfología corporal influye según las condiciones: perfil segmento ciclista, frío o calor, uso o no del neopreno, etc

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience En 1991 el biotipo los triatletas de distancia olímipica eran más parecidos a los nadadores que a los corredores

1. 8 febAndreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso
2. #TriScience La Dra. Broad del IAS nos habla ahora de como ha evolucionado el triatlón desde el punto de vista de morfología de los triatleta

It is not that triathlon´s morphology has evolved.  Winning requires different games, not a morphological evolution.

Andreu Alfonso‏@andreualfonso #TriScience Hemos publicado el primer post en el blog http://triscience.blogspot.com.es : Detección de Talentos en Alemania. Seguiremos con más.

NOTHING NEW FROM THE GERMANS:  How to educate athletes to tolerate load training. That is precisely what talent identification is.  Where can we get/train/educate athletes who tolerate training?