08/09/2025
Quite the season for getting his 3rd IM 70.3 Victory win this year with a smooth sailing victory at IM70.3 Santa Cruz on Sunday. That’s 20 x 70.3 victories over the course of the Appoconda’s career which is a huge achievement.
Both Appo and I know well the burnout well that can come from chasing the 8hr racing game too long and really wanted to avoid that given the major goal is a Kona performance Appo can be super proud of in 2026.
To do that, we had to bring back the love for the game and go back to regular IM 70.3 racing in 2025.
Less volume, more of an Olympic distance styled weekly plan, using the races as the only real ‘emotionally deep’ sessions.
A few interesting stats..
An average of 75 hours of training per month the past 9 months.
That’s about 18-19 hours a week. Some of my age groupers do a lot more than that and hey, that’s definitely not wrong. Different athletes, different responses to the training stimulus so different loads are needed.
CTL is very low relative to most pros winning 70.3s and even very low for Appo. To the point even Appo was worried about to which I politely replied:
“Who gives a $&%! Race performance is the metric that matters most and you’re getting faster not slower every race”.
A relaxed and joyful Appo is a dangerous man to race.
Reedy.