Assigning Weekly Hours To Your Triathlon Plan
Now that we know what our year will look like, and have figured out our yearly output of training hours, we need to come up with our weekly hour figures. You want to look at your year on a calendar and see how the year breaks up into periods, take those periods and assign weekly hours accordingly.
Phases of Your Triathlon Plan
It’s best to probably at this point to review the phases of training. It will depend on what phase of your training plan you are in, as a review of our phases they are listed here.
- Preparation
- Base One
- Base Two
- Base Three
- Build one and two
- Peak
- Race
- Transition
For preparation, you are getting yourself ready, physically and mentally to train at levels that you haven’t trained at for awhile. It is in essence, a triathlon plan to train phase, and this will have duration of time from 2-5 weeks depending on how long you took off, or how long your transition phase was.
The weekly hours of your triathlon plan will be greatest during your build one and two phases; the hours will gradually build 
from preparation into base one to base two. At peak you will see your hours drop as this is your taper, the hours you are setting on your annual calendar can and probably will be adjusted once the season starts, doing this now will give you a ballpark of what to expect during your year.
Key to Performance-Must Have a Triathlon Plan
To maximize performance you must have a plan, with clear cut goals and races, if you don’t plan, your triathlon plan will eliminate training in a half hazard way and your results will be dramatically improved.
