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Your First Ironman Training Plan
About this plan
The whole plan points at one thing: your first IRONMAN. Across 20 weeks and roughly 11 hours a week, it builds you toward the full iron distance with nothing in there that does not earn its place.
The load builds in three-week blocks and then backs off, so the work actually lands instead of burying you. The hard sessions are dosed the way the research says fitness is built, never piled on as junk volume, and the swim, the bike, the run and the transitions that join them all get their turn.
Follow it as written and you will arrive at your first IRONMAN genuinely ready, not just hopeful.
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Common questions
Who is this plan for?
The rider or athlete targeting your first IRONMAN. It suits the full iron distance, for someone who can give it a fairly steady 11 hours most weeks.
How much training does it involve?
Plan on 20 weeks and about 11 hours a week. It rises for a couple of weeks, then drops to let the work settle, rather than climbing endlessly until you break.
How is the plan delivered?
A single payment drops the whole plan into TrainingPeaks for you, laid out session by session in plain English so nothing is left to guesswork.
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