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Ironplanner: Iron-Distance Organizer for Triathletes
Don't do an Ironman without an Ironplan!
Getting the the starting line requires much more than a training plan. This book is full of worksheets and checklists that will organize every aspect of your race preparation so you don't have to. Build an Ironman Notebook so you have everything you need in one place, even if your computer dies or your cell runs out of juice.
Start with the Ironplan Countdown, a checklist of over 100 things (over and above actually training for the event) you must do to get to the starting line calm and prepared. Keep track of fueling so you will have a tested nutrition strategy. Recognize your strengths and practice focusing skills during your workouts. Develop a powerful mental toolkit and build it into your race plan. Create a spectator kit for your friends and family. Blank worksheets are available to purchasers that email their request to the author.
Getting the the starting line requires much more than a training plan. This book is full of worksheets and checklists that will organize every aspect of your race preparation so you don't have to. Build an Ironman Notebook so you have everything you need in one place, even if your computer dies or your cell runs out of juice.
Start with the Ironplan Countdown, a checklist of over 100 things (over and above actually training for the event) you must do to get to the starting line calm and prepared. Keep track of fueling so you will have a tested nutrition strategy. Recognize your strengths and practice focusing skills during your workouts. Develop a powerful mental toolkit and build it into your race plan. Create a spectator kit for your friends and family. Blank worksheets are available to purchasers that email their request to the author.
135 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2009
About the author
Ingrid Loos Miller
7 booksIngrid Loos Miller is a USAT Certified Coach and triathlete. She knows first-hand how crucial Functional Strength Training is to a triathlete's success. With the help of co-author Jim Herkimer, she has finished multiple Ironman races and marathons after the doctor's said she couldn't run any more.
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April 22, 2017
Full disclosure that I am Ingrid's client.
Since I'm a checklist junkie that recently ran the wedding planning gauntlet, I really liked this approach. I plan to revisit the exercises in the weeks ramping up to big races. Ingrid stays away from getting into gritty details of training philosophies (including avoiding much discussion of strength, flexibility, and recovery routines), so this isn't really your one book to rule them all. I could do with fewer "inspiring" pictures of athletes that were not demonstrating a concept in the text, but that might cut the page count down to the point where it no longer feels like a book's worth of content. Her timeline expectations are to take 6 months to 3 years to be "ready" for a Iron-distance event, so if you're thumbing through this the first time shortly before your Iron-distance event, all the details you realize you've neglected may freak you out in less than constructive ways.
Those concerns aside, she digs deep on the mental preparation and contingency planning tactics of race preparation which are areas it seems most other triathlon books omit or gloss over at a theoretical level.
Since I'm a checklist junkie that recently ran the wedding planning gauntlet, I really liked this approach. I plan to revisit the exercises in the weeks ramping up to big races. Ingrid stays away from getting into gritty details of training philosophies (including avoiding much discussion of strength, flexibility, and recovery routines), so this isn't really your one book to rule them all. I could do with fewer "inspiring" pictures of athletes that were not demonstrating a concept in the text, but that might cut the page count down to the point where it no longer feels like a book's worth of content. Her timeline expectations are to take 6 months to 3 years to be "ready" for a Iron-distance event, so if you're thumbing through this the first time shortly before your Iron-distance event, all the details you realize you've neglected may freak you out in less than constructive ways.
Those concerns aside, she digs deep on the mental preparation and contingency planning tactics of race preparation which are areas it seems most other triathlon books omit or gloss over at a theoretical level.
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