Triaperformance — IRONMAN & ESCI Certified Coach | Triathlon, Running, Cycling, HYROX
20-Week 50K Ultramarathon + Strength — Intermediate (Your Faster Ultra)
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🏆 Six runs a week, built around the weekend that decides a 50KYou have finished an ultra, or a marathon that left you wanting more distance. This plan adds what the first one lacked: a weekly hill session, bigger back-to-back weekends and a long run that reaches four hours — run start to finish on a flat course, the climbs walked by plan on a hilly one.
Long runs, hikes and the weekend double are run by heart rate from your 30-minute test; the threshold and tempo sessions are by pace. Road or trail: terrain changes your pace, not your session. Tests repeat in week 10.
From week 9 the weekends come in pairs — a long run on Saturday, a shorter one on Sunday on Saturday's legs — growing to 4:00 + 2:30 in week 17, then a three-week taper. Two strength sessions a week, tapering with the running.
Plan Features
- Duration: 20 Weeks — every fourth week a recovery week, peak weekend in week 17, three-week taper, race on the last Sunday
- Level: Intermediate — 6 runs a week + 2 strength sessions; 6 to 11 hours per week
- Zones: long runs and hikes by heart rate (lactate threshold HR, not max HR), quality by pace; tests in weeks 1 and 10. Chest strap recommended.
- ⛰️ Weekly hill session from week 5 (6 to 10 × 90″) and hike intervals in every long run — climbs walked by plan; flat course, easy minutes
- 🏃🏃 Back-to-back weekends from week 9, growing to 4:00 + 2:30; the race distance is never run in training
- 🏋️♂️ Gym: 2 strength sessions — legs, hips, calves, core — every exercise explained, tapering with the running
- 🍌 Fuelling built into the long runs: start at 60 g of carbs an hour and train your stomach toward 90
- Outdoors or on the treadmill. Syncs to Garmin, Polar, Wahoo, Suunto, Coros, Apple Watch
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🇪🇸 Iván Koch, Triaperformance. Coach de triatlón y running. TrainingPeaks Level 2 Accredited Coach, ESCI Certified Coach (IRONMAN U 2025). Coaching 1:1 y planes en español, inglés y portugués. Método polarizado y basado en datos: test, zonas, análisis, re-test. triaperformance.com
🇺🇸 Triathlon and running coach. TrainingPeaks Level 2 Accredited, ESCI Certified. 1:1 coaching and training plans in Spanish, English and Portuguese. Data-driven, polarized: test, zones, analysis, re-test.