How did he train
How did he train
During the school year he biked about 3 times a week for 80-110 miles with some rides up 60-65 miles. Swam usually once a day but sometimes twice, for 1-2 hours, sometimes just easy swimming sometimes intervals. Running he did 40-50 mpw his freshmen year, 50-60 his sophomore year, skipped his junior year by taking summer classes, senior year he did 60 mpw. He took every Sunday as a complete rest day. He did 3 workouts a week and a Saturday long run of 12-14 miles in 75-90 min. His easy runs were usually 630-645 pace. He was a big fan of fartleks. He usually started off with 2 fartleks and a tempo or 2 tempos and a fartlek during base. As he got close to the season he did a tempo a fartlek and a track workout then in season he did 2 track workouts and a tempo, and if he was racing any given week the race took place of a track workout.
In the summer he upped the biking and swimming and reduced the running mileage to about 40 mpw and focused on world junior triathlon(this triathlon training served as his cross country base, for xc he just upped the mileage, reduced the biking and swimming, and added speed work). He took 4th at World Juniors prior to his senior xc season and did that mostly in the run with a 15 flat 5k off the bike passing 20 or 30 people on the run or something crazy like that. After his senior year he wasn't going to do triathlon, but his friend(Kevin) got cancer, and Kevin would have won world juniors so Lukas kept his 60 mpw(20 more than usual triathlon training) and added all the biking and swimming and dominated world juniors and the second they handed him the gold medal he stepped off the podium and handed it to Kevin with tears in his eyes.
At Oregon, Lukas stopped swimming and biking and was doing 80-85 mpw of running and was getting horribly out of shape, so he found out that he needed the swimming and biking so he lost faith in their program and not being an immediate star made him leave Oregon since he won world juniors at triathlon meaning it was his better sport. Then he kept the 80 mpw from Oregon in addition to swimming and biking and won some pro races on the triathlon circuit.
He was injured during the qualifying period so he didn't make the olympic team, but during June and July he was so fit and beat 2 of the men on the US olympic team in his first 2 wins as a pro (he beat one of the US olympians at each race). Shortly after he lost an olympic distance race(Typical pro triathlon race) due to technical issues then lost a sprint distance race because he made some mistakes out of the water in the transition area. Then he went back to Colorado Springs to train for a good month before doing another race and then he had the accident and now over a year later he is in solid shape but not the same currently. He is improving rapidly though so its only a matter of time. On Thanksgiving he won a turkey trot 5 miler going about 503 mile pace(followed by a 30 mile bike ride back home), but worth noting he ran a 2355 8k in HS before his senior track season at a Shamrock 8k race in Illinois, and he was in a lot better shape that summer when he won the pro triathlon races.
He was not out of shape at Oregon. He ran some pretty good times for a freshman. Plus he had like no base that summer and instantly tried to compete. That's why guys like Craig lutz destroyed him that weren't better than him in high school. He should have never left Oregon
Out of shape? wrote:
He was not out of shape at Oregon. He ran some pretty good times for a freshman. Plus he had like no base that summer and instantly tried to compete. That's why guys like Craig lutz destroyed him that weren't better than him in high school. He should have never left Oregon
So in other words... he was out of shape.