Yearly Archives :

2017

Hi Five Time at the Boston Marathon

Five Reasons to Rethink the Fall Marathon

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Every year athletes wake up in the fall realizing that their season is technically over and that winter is looming. Full of fitness and facing the reality of the coming cold, most athletes try to cram in one more good race for the year. But sometimes one more race is just one race too many.…

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Annual Run Volume By Week

Why You Don’t Run As Much As You Think, and How to Fix It

800 384 Patrick McCrann

One of the biggest issues that endurance athletes face is overreaching. Simply doing too much has the potential for devastating consequences. This is something that everyone knows, but not everyone does. It is a lesson that takes years to learn and is usually a path wrought with injury and setback. But it doesn’t have to…

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Episode #649: Where Does One Season End and Another Begin?

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P discusses the nuances of successfully “ending” a season. Starting a season is easy…but ending can be ugly. And the grey area between the two is full of POTENTIAL! Tune in to hear why Endurance Nation athletes use our Run Durability Program (RDP) to…

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A Man and His Ventum

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The Surprise Ironman & Quick Fit It all started with the idea that having a race on the calendar would motivate me. Little did I know that I would lose track of time and wake up with only eight weeks until race day in a total panic. While this might sound normal to you, I…

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Episode #648 – 10 Lessons Learned in 1 Ironman

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P dives into his race experience at Ironman® Mont Tremblant, pulling out the big lessons learned that made a huge difference on race day. – Read the [ full race report here](https://www.endurancenation.us/blog/team-en/coach-patricks-comeback-report-936-at-2017-ironman-mont-tremblant/). – Listen to the [ pre-race podcast here](https://www.endurancenation.us/blog/podcast/inbetweenisode-coach-patrick-preps-for-ironman-mont-tremblant/). – Share…

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What is it like to train indoors and race outdoors?

800 533 Mariah Bridges

Ian Kurth 2017 IMMT Race Report Training indoors racing outdoors   Training lead up Overall, I effectively doubled down on last year’s experiment of leveraging indoor swimming, cycling and running in various ways to achieve a training effect within my personal and professional time constraints. This means spending plenty of time in the pain cave…

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Coach Patrick’s Comeback Report — 9:36 at 2017 Ironman® Mont Tremblant

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Coach Patrick’s Comeback Report — 9:36 at 2017 Ironman® Mont Tremblant   Quick Summary For those of you who might want a quick recap or with little time, here are the details. Swam a 1:07, Biked a 4:55 and Ran a 3:27 on my way to a 9:36 finishing time. This was a 1 minute…

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Inbetweenisode – Coach Patrick Preps for Ironman® Mont Tremblant

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P discusses the build up to his next race at Ironman® Mont Tremblant. This is his first race since 2015 and there were several key changes he made to his training volume and schedule this year. Relevant Links: – Vasa Swim…

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Peter Lautenslager Qualifies for Ironman® Hawaii

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P interviews the intrepid Peter Lautenslager on his recent qualification for Kona by placing second in M55-59 at Ironman® Lake Placid. We worked with Peter to refocus his year, emphasizing the opportunity the Winter training presented. He crushed the Endurance…

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Alaskaman Extreme Triathlon Race Report with Mark Maurer

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Join Coach Patrick from Endurance Nation (www.endurancenation.us) for another weekly endurance podcast. This week Coach P interviews Endurance Nation member Mark Maurer about his ADVENTURE in the inaugural Alaskaman Extreme Triathlon. Tune in to hear how Mark settled on the race, how he trained and just how E.P.I.C. this race was…especially the last seven miles of…

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