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Winter Weather Wrecking Your Workouts?

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Regardless of where you live, or the environment in which you train, I can guarantee that the four seasons will bring a level of difficulty to your training that was unanticipated when you started. Here’s how you can realistically continue to stay and build build fitness as you deal with the changing weather conditions.

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What is January Volume Camp? Sign me up Coach!

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  What IS January Volume Camp? A triathlon specific winter camp to add strategic volume to your training. These volume “pops” can dramatically improve your current season. Swimming Biking and Running all with Coach Patrick and other campers brings your winter training to the next level and puts your goals within your reach (and your…

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2016 January Volume Camp Day Four Recap

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The fourth and final day is my favorite day of training camp. This is our chance to go down on the Clay trails that surround Clermont. But this one is an almost exclusively reserved for the runners and Farmington over the course of this morning, I only saw three cars!

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Test Week is Rest Week (Plus Testing Insights!)

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Without a doubt the most important week of your year is your testing week. It is during this week that you not only recover, but you begin to synchronize your aspirations for race day with your current levels of fitness. Inside Endurance Nation we use a series of “functional” tests that you can do on…

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2016 January Volume Camp Day Three Recap

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Plan for the day was a swim followed by a bike ride. Due to inclement weather on Friday (Day One), we moved the long the long ride back to today. So what was meant to be a lighter day was going to be one of the stronger ones…and we all knew it.

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2016 January Volume Camp Day Two Recap

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We awoke this morning feeling pretty good about the fact that yesterday we couldn’t ride a century due to the weather. Get a nice balance of swim, bike, and run… But today was all about the bike. Before we could begin, several of the campers decided to get in the short run.

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2016 January Volume Camp Day One Recap

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We started off the day with a 7 AM swim at the national training center here in Clermont. It was awesome to see the pool the set up as 50 m long for swimming, so we were all guaranteed to work out regardless of our fitness levels!

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2016 January Volume Camp Day One Recap

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We started off the day with a 7 AM swim at the national training center here in Clermont. It was awesome to see the pool the set up as 50 m long for swimming, so we were all guaranteed to work out regardless of our fitness levels!

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#ENTriChat — How to Plan your Race Season

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  #ENTriChat — How to Plan your Race Season  With Sponsor — Revolution3 Triathlon What IS a Twitter Chat? A Twitter chat is where a group of Twitter users meet at a predetermined time to discuss a certain topic, using a designated hashtag(#) for each tweet contributed.  Imagine a business networking event—but without a dress…

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Six Lifestyle Tips to Save Triathlon Training Time

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Many of us are parents, we are professionals, we are active in our communities, and we support our kids as they do athletics as well as all the activities they do. By the end of the day it is easy to see how the vast majority of your time is simply not “yours.” Yet we all know that getting better isn’t just limited to physical gifts or disposable cash — it’s really about finding a way to be successful given the constraints of our lives.

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