PEAK FOR IRONMAN IN 12 WEEKS

Race day is getting closer, the accommodation is booked, you've chosen your race kit, now all you need to do is complete the peak phase of training and you're ready. Easy right?

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At this stage of your iron-distance prep, you'll have covered off the Base and the Build phase and should have already banked heaps of miles (see 220triathlon.com for these earlier training blocks).

You should also be able to estimate your race-day targets, which will help when it comes to pacing the vital, 'big 'training sessions.

As a rough guide, you should already be swimming 3km in a session, have completed a couple of 120kmrides and run a half marathon. The last phase of iron-distance race prep is about ticking boxes, covering key distances for confidence and using them to discover race pace, and the inclusion of sessions to stress your lactate threshold so that you don't become a one-pace plodder.