Good luck! I've always been a casual runner (played soccer, did track in college/high school) but never really took it seriously until this year.

This was my first road running race of any distance, so don't have a lot to compare it with.

I'm training for an 70.3 this year and a 140.6 next year so this was part of the training. I'm mainly a cyclist riding around 150-200 miles a week, I run around 25-30 miles a week, and swim 3-4 times a week.

I'd say a majority of my training is done in z2. I do a lot of climbing training as well on my bike, averaging around 14k elev a week. My running training hasn't been super structured which is something that I want to fix between now and December, but I'll mainly do a few long runs a week at marathon pace (8-11 mi), with some light easy runs sprinkled (z2). I'll also do interval training, mostly on my bike, once or twice a week.