The PIG training plan guarantees to improve your performance by ten - twenty percent. The improvement is based upon the amount of watts that you can produce during the CP30 test. While it may be one way to measure performance, how does it translate to performance on the road?
To determine how my improvement went, I competed in the Pelican Fest triathlon that I've done three times with a ten mile bike course. Checking my training logs, the race conditions were relatively the same so it should be a close comparison.
2009 Time: 26:29, Pace: 2:38.9, MPH: 22.66
2010 Time: 26:26, Pace: 2:38.6, MPH: 22.70
2012 Time: 25:42, Pace: 2:34.2, MPH: 23.35
2012 is a three percent improvement over 2011. While this is short of the ten percent quarantee, I think this validates the PIG program.
There is also one other impact that should be reviewed and for a triathlete that is the run. Part of the bike leg is to get to the run leg with something left. If you finish the bike and you can't run, you went too hard on the bike. The Pelican Fest triathlon has a five kilometer run which I used for comparison.
2009 Time: 19:34, Pace: 6:18
2010 Time: 20:38, Pace: 6:39
2012 Time: 19:01, Pace: 6:08
The 2012 run was approximately 8.5% faster than 2010. Reviewing my training logs again, my run training has been realatively the same as 2010 so I believe the run improvement is a result of finishing the bike with fresher legs. I think that the PIG program improved my cycling performance more than the increase at the race because I still had enough in the legs to improve the run leg by over eight percent.
If your a triathete and you haven't tried PIG, your run is suffering.
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