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Sounds like you enjoyed it though if your already planning training for more. Bricks are really important but the run off the bike has to be on either tired legs after a long bike or on legs full of lactic after a hard bike. Most of the bricks don't even have to be long just a couple of k off the bike at varying paces until the legs feel normal again plus one quality race specific brick a week. So many times I've led off the bike in tri and duathlons only to get caught on the run despite being a decent stand alone runner. Putting them together harder than most people realise but i come from a strong cycling background and have seen plenty of tasty runners dissappear up the road from the gun just to grind to a halt as soon as they start trying to put some power down on the bike.
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Wow you weren’t kidding about the second run feeling bad! Basically legs felt like I was still riding a bike. Couldn’t have gone faster if I wanted to, my legs had no spring.
One thing I realised is my training was fine but I need to do bricks with harder biking. I absolutely hammered the bike leg, great training for mtb xc I’m sure, but hadn’t done that in brick training so legs on the run were much worse than when I trained.
Also made me think that I need to do more of those kind of bike efforts as they’ll be great for xc racing. 40 mins approx of hard riding trying to stay on a big gear up all the little hills. I get now why my mate used to do tt’s to train for mtb!