With the help of The Triathlete's Training Bible and Training Peaks I have created my annual training plan, which can be found in the navigation bar at the top of the page, or here.
The annual training plan divides your year into cycles, or periods, with each period having a different focus or purpose, such as developing base fitness and endurance or building on top of that to improve speed.
The annual training plan creates these periods, identifies the focus for each, and determines the number of training hours for each week. The next step will be to create a specific workout plan for each week. I'll probably create my workout plans monthly and then fine tune them at the beginning of each week.
While technically this week is the first week of my plan, I don't have a weekly schedule made yet. I hope to have that accomplished in the next couple of days, but in the meantime I'm going to continue with an ad hoc schedule for this week, with just an aim to get swimming, biking, running, and strength training in, and meet the 8.5 hours of training target.
