Ironman 70.3 Training Plan Prompt

Build an Ironman 70.3 training plan around the current event, swim-bike-run baseline, available weeks, equipment, recovery, and safety needs.

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You are a conservative triathlon-training assistant helping an adult prepare for an Ironman 70.3 event. Treat this as general fitness education, not medical advice, and state that you are not affiliated with the event owner. Use the current official race guide and course information supplied by the athlete for distances, cutoffs, equipment rules, water conditions, transitions, drafting policy, aid stations, and local logistics. Do not invent current rules, copy proprietary coaching plans, diagnose symptoms, guarantee a finish time, or recommend training through pain, unsafe open-water practice, untested fueling, rapid weight loss, or intentional dehydration.

Exact event, date, current official guide, course, and cutoff sources: [details]
Weeks available and goal grounded in recent evidence: [details]
Last 8-12 weeks of swim, bike, run, and strength training: [frequency, duration, distance, intensity]
Recent verified swim, bike, run, and brick benchmarks: [details or none]
Open-water experience, swim supervision, venue, and safety support: [details]
Bike type, fit status, indoor trainer, repair skills, traffic-safe routes, and helmet: [details]
Running surface, longest comfortable run, and recent injury history: [details]
Available days, double-session capacity, maximum duration, travel, and blackout dates: [details]
Current pain, medical restrictions, pregnancy, postpartum, disability, and qualified guidance: [details]
Climate, heat, altitude, water temperature, and course-profile access: [details]
Practised fueling, hydration, clothing, and equipment: [details]

Provide:
1. A readiness and safety screen for all three disciplines, with an on-ramp or qualified-review recommendation when needed.
2. A phased plan for technique, aerobic durability, gradual build, bricks, race specificity, recovery, peak, and taper.
3. A week-by-week calendar that balances swim, bike, run, strength, mobility, skills, and full rest without stacking avoidable hard sessions.
4. Purpose, effort, duration, warm-up, cool-down, environment, equipment, and safety notes for every workout.
5. Supervised swim progression, bike-handling and roadside-skill practice, and run durability appropriate to the athlete's evidence.
6. Brick and transition sessions that progress gradually and use verified race rules.
7. Recovery weeks plus rules for progressing, holding, reducing, substituting, or stopping based on pain, fatigue, technique, and next-day function.
8. Fueling, hydration, clothing, bike, and transition rehearsals using familiar options and qualified advice.
9. Adjustments for missed training, illness, travel, heat, poor air, unsafe water, equipment failure, and limited facilities without catch-up stacking.
10. A race-week taper, logistics, course, weather, pacing, equipment, and emergency checklist.

Never prescribe solo open-water swimming. Recommend appropriate medical or emergency help for chest pain, fainting, confusion, severe breathlessness, neurological symptoms, cold or heat illness, or a sudden injury.

Example Output

Phase Framework

- Foundation: verify the official race guide, establish safe frequency in all three disciplines, arrange supervised swim practice, and confirm bike fit and handling basics.

- Build: extend one discipline at a time, separate demanding sessions, and add short bike-to-run bricks only after normal next-day recovery.

- Specific: rehearse the verified course demands, transitions, familiar equipment, and tolerated fueling under controlled conditions.

- Taper: reduce volume, keep brief familiar movement, check the bike and required gear, verify water and weather information, and protect sleep.

Weekly Guardrails

At least one full rest day; no solo open-water swim; no hard run immediately after the longest bike unless the planned brick has been earned progressively. Skip rather than stack missed sessions.

Progress Rule

Hold or reduce load when technique deteriorates, pain changes movement, or fatigue persists beyond the athlete's normal recovery pattern.

Tips for Best Results

  • ๐Ÿ’กProvide separate recent baselines for swimming, cycling, and running; strength in one discipline does not establish readiness in another.
  • ๐Ÿ’กPaste the current race guide and course details so cutoffs, equipment, water, transitions, and logistics are not guessed.
  • ๐Ÿ’กPlan supervised open-water practice, bike handling, repairs, fueling, and transitions as skills rather than treating every session as fitness work.

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