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Q&A #21 - Training to heart rate or power, improving your aerobic engine for the swim, and are intervals better than long slow distance training?

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How Much Lactate Do You Process?

I would use pace as the primary metric to base intensity off of, still keeping an eye on our trait and especially the long-term trends. For most athletes there's neither any practical reason nor theoretical really to know in your day-to-day training how much lactate you are processing. So that's, yeah, I wouldn't worry about that if I were you. Q&A number 20: Are typical 20-minute triathlon tests relevant for sprint or Olympic distance races?

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