With less than a week to Kronos 2010/2011 Season first practice, registrations for the 2010/2011 programs are all open! For more information, please contact info@trikronos.com.
Training and Schedules
Maps: Jewish Community Centre, University Research Park, North Glenmore
Start Date for all programs:
Practices are held at:
Jewish Community Centre (JCC), located on 90th Avenue SW, next to Glenmore Landing: morning swims and indoor biking
Foothills Pool (FHP), located next to the University of Calgary: evening swims
Mt Royal Recreation (MRR), located near Crowchild and Glenmore Trails SW: Sunday swims
Olympic Oval
(Oval) at the University of Calgary: indoor running
Teens of Steel coached practices
Adult and Junior and Competitive Elite coached practices
Tentative 2011 Competition Schedule
Wasa Olympics/KOS Triathlon
Great White North Half-Ironman Triathlon
Canmore Olympic Triathlon or Provincial Olympics Championships
Calgary 70.3 Triathlon
Kelowna Apple Triathlon
2008-2009 Training Cycle
Preparation Period September to April
September/December
All-round conditioning
Motion economy
Conservation of speed and anaerobic endurance
Development of high level aerobic power
How:
- Easy endurance runs up to 26 km
- Easy endurance cycles up to 2.5 hrs
- Stretching and relaxation exercises
- Physical exercise with and without apparatus, circuit training
- Accelerations and coordination runs
- Bike spin-ups, gear drills, leg drills
- Swimming with fins & paddles focusing on arm placement and body rotation
- Learning many new swimming drills
January/February
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Anaerobic endurance enhanced
How:
- Fartlek with long stretches at low to medium intensity
- Standing drills, force build and indoor force hills on the bike
- Endurance intervals on both run and bike
- Repetition runs and bikes at low to medium intensity, mainly over long distances
- Swimming intervals of 3-5min with recovery at half of work interval time
- Lactate tolerance swimming sets
March/April
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Conservation of aerobic endurance
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Development of anaerobic endurance
- Hill training on a round circuit
- Training on grass/trails over rolling terrain
- Big gear low heart rate and combination big gear standing drills on bike
- Getting outside on the bike and doing hill repeats and aerobic rides over rolling terrain
- Swimming long cruise intervals + adding paddles
- Threshold swimming
Competition Period May to October
May/June/July/August
All-round conditioning
How:- Motion economy
- Development of anaerobic endurance, including speed
- Coordination of training and competition program to reach the highest performance capacity at the right time (main competition, world championships, etc)
- Maintenance of aerobic endurance as a performance basis
Other Info
Tacx trainers and Computrainer available for power analysis in indoor practices and testing thanks to a grant from the Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Foundation.
The club will be participating in a few swim meets & running races in preparation for the triathlon season.
The club will select key triathlon races to attend as a group.
Kronos Triathlon Club | Calgary, Alberta | info@trikronos.com