JBST Duathlete Lee Piercy

Coaching advice: 1997 to 1999
Signed up Coaching: 1999
Coaching package: e-Coaching EXTRA

Before JBST: Lee was a ME sufferrer who had spells
of good training followed by over-training. He was
getting solid results but more was possible.

With JBST: Lee has improved year on year (see below).
This year he had a great National Champs, Worlds (7th in A/G) and Ball Buster (4th Overall).

This has been through fun but focussed training, weekly chats to plan sessions ahead and upgrading of bike technology (every race set up is tweaked to get the best for that race).

An e-mail from November 2005:
"Here is my improvement over the last 3 ballbuster events. It is a fair comparison since the conditions have been fairly similar across each 3 events. Pretty incredible improvement really and i think I remember you saying after last year’s BB that it would be difficult for us to make much future gains. Luckily (given the stiffer competition this year) a number of factors we implemented building up to the event culminated in a huge improvement in time"

Summary:
17 minutes improvement over 2 years
5 minutes improvement from 2004 to 2005

2003:
1st Run: 46;01
Bike: 1:15;29
2nd Run: 58:59
Total time: 3:00:29

2004:
1st Run: 45:13
Bike: 1:13:39
2nd Run: 49:13
Total time: 2:48:05

2005:
1st Run: 43:42
Bike: 1:10:08
2nd Run: 49:26
Total time: 2:43:16


Quote: "The season is over now and I can reflect on my best year by far; not only in my decathlon results but my life (not sure if this is coincidental?). I have had a great balance and am very fortunate that I reap a huge ROI on my training since i have got some great results without hardly any sacrifice or training becoming all consuming. Rather than fit my life around training I fit in my training around life.

Thanks for your help this year – you are a phenomenal coach."


JBST SMART Approach:

1. Build base with HR control, include anaerobic intervals when tapering into events and taper with a plan of action
that means the best is left for race day.

2. Set out priority events each year (2005 was National Du Champs, World Champs and Ball Buster)

3. Use nutrition to get most from trainign and racing (PSP-22, Go Gels, caffeine.)


JBST SMART Lessons:

* You can improve despite a busy life and with less than
10hrs per week (on average).

* Building a base each winter aids recovery and faster times all through the season.

* Make your big races the focus and learn to either ignore small ones or just train through them .