With less than a week to Kronos 2009/2010 Season first practice, registrations for the 2009-2010 season Adult Program is now FULL!
The executives and coaching staffs may accept Teens-of-Steele and Competitive Adult program athletes on a case-to-case basis. 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: Monday Oct. 5th
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
Two of the three:
Mondays: 6:00 – 7:30 AM swim at the JCC
Wednesdays: 6:00 – 7:30 AM swim at the JCC
Sundays: 6:00 – 7:30 AM swim at the MRU
Tuesday 7:00-8:00PM
bike at JCC
Wednesdays: 7:00 – 8:00 PM run at Oval
Friday
5:00-6:00PM run
at the
TBD
Adult and Junior and Competitive Elite coached practices
Swims: Sundays at MRR: 4:00 – 5:30 PM, plus choose either:
- Tuesdays and Thursdays: 6:00 – 7:30 AM at the JCC
- Mondays: 8:30 – 10:00 PM at FHP and Wednesdays 6:00 – 7:30 AM at the JCC
Bikes: Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings at the JCC during the winter and outdoors in nicer weather
Runs: Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings at various locations
2010 Competition Schedule
TBD
Kronos members general attend several key local races together for team support.
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