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Half Distance Triathlon for Beginners - Bike Power, Run HR, Swim RPE and Pace

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Half Distance Triathlon for Beginners - Bike Power, Run HR, Swim RPE and Pace

Includes Structured Workouts

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Author

Tom Fokkens-Ancery - Sense Endurance Coaching

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Length

22 Weeks

Includes Structured Workouts

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Plan Description

Most 70.3 races are lost in the second half of the run.
22 weeks. Half distance triathlon. Built for first-timers and athletes returning after a break.

The swim and bike went fine. The athlete had the fitness. What gave way was form, pacing discipline, or both.



How This Plan Works
Swim sessions use RPE and pace. Bike sessions are structured by power, giving a precise and repeatable effort target regardless of conditions. Run sessions use heart rate to regulate effort and keep the easy work genuinely easy.

The plan trains three disciplines as one race, not three separate sports bolted together. Bike and run intensity are placed with a specific purpose, and pacing is developed as a skill across the block. Strength work runs throughout rather than disappearing once volume increases.



Is This Plan For You?
This plan is built for a particular kind of athlete.
  • Athletes taking on the distance for the first time, or returning after a break
  • Athletes who want fitness built through a staged progression, with load increasing in planned steps each week
Before you start: you should be comfortable swimming 1,500m, riding 75 minutes and running 45 minutes. Not all on the same day.



What's Included
  • Email support from the coach who built the plan, for the duration of the plan
  • 22-week self-guided training programme delivered through TrainingPeaks
  • Structured workouts that sync to your Garmin, Wahoo, or compatible device
  • Not the right fit? I will swap it for another plan, any time, no quibble



About the Coach
I came to triathlon after an elite Tae-Kwon-Do career, national titles and a European silver among them. I knew how to train hard. What I found when I moved to triathlon was fifteen years of following proven plans, hiring expert coaches, and racing worse for it. I hit a wall. Not a physical one. An architectural one.

Sense Endurance Coaching was built to kill that cycle.

I'm Trisutto and 80/20 Endurance certified, and worked with Brett Sutton through his Coach the Coach programme.

That shaped how I build training: no junk miles, no grey zone, sessions built around the hours an athlete actually has rather than the idealised week that never happens in practice.



Still Not Sure?
Questions before you buy? Ask me and I will tell you honestly whether this plan fits. Want to learn more first? Read my articles at www.sense-endurance.com.

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Training Plan Sample Week

Stats

Average Weekly Breakdown

Workouts Weekly Average Longest Workout
Bike x4
07:23:00 03:00:00
Run x3
03:12:00 01:40:00
Swim x3
02:50:00 01:15:00
strength x3
—— ——
Brick x1
—— ——
Workouts Per Week Weekly Average Longest Workout
Bike
07:23:00 03:00:00
Run
03:12:00 01:40:00
Swim
02:50:00 01:15:00
strength
—— ——
Brick
—— ——

Training Load By Week


This plan works best with the following fitness devices:

  • Power Meter
  • Heart Rate Monitor
  • GPS

All supported devices

Tom Fokkens-Ancery

Sense Endurance Coaching

Triathlon coaching that cuts through the noise. I build training around the hours you actually have, not the idealised week that never materialises. Trisutto and 80/20 Endurance certified, with experience in Brett Sutton's Coach the Coach Programme. The focus is durability, controlled intensity, and form that holds under race pressure. No junk miles. No gray zone. Training built from scratch around your schedule and your race. 500+ plans sold. 100+ athletes coached.


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  • Completed workouts sync with popular apps like Garmin and Wahoo. Learn More
  • If plan includes Structured Workouts, then planned workouts sync to compatible devices and guide you through workouts in real time. Learn More

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