Overall, I am very happy with my race and with staying inside the box of what I could control. Ultimately, that proved to be a good strategy, since events out of my control pretty much ran the day. The biggest issue I had…
read moreBeing a triathlete makes you feel like you have superpowers. She swims…she bikes…she RUNS! Your friends and family don’t often get along but they can agree here: We can’t stop her, we can only contain her! And then you…
read moreTeamEN at Coeur d’Alene’12 TeamEN fielded nearly 30 athletes at Coeur d’Alene’12, the 10th anniversary of the event and Version 3.0 of the bike course. Rich Strauss was on hand to coach and lead the team, organize a team dinner…
read moreBart Stevens at Ironman® Coeur d’Alene By Bart Stevens Go here to listen to Bart’s race report interview with Coach Rich INTRODUCTION My name is Bart Stevens. I competed in Ironman® Coeur D’Alene 2012. It was my second full Ironman,…
read moreBrett Prince at Ironman® Coeur d’Alene This was my first Ironman, and it lived up to expectations. Overall, I had a great experience, and I have a lot of people to thank for that. In review of the day, it…
read moreRace reports since our last late June update are below. 22 races and a 45% PR rate! Members, don’t forget to let us know where you’ve been racing by adding your info here. If you’d like to join our age…
read moreSteady wins the race! As our members, training plan customers, and readers swap their training hats for their pointy racey-racey hats, leaving their trainers behind to test their fitness on the road in preparation for their races, we see…
read moreWe are entering the hottest part of the season: July and August. Pretty much wherever you live you’ll be experiencing some flavor of heat, humidity or both. It’s time to step away from your race pace calculator and take a…
read moreThinking inside the triathlon box How much to train, how far to swim bike, run, what carbon aero widget to buy and much more…the triathlon space has no end of guidance on these topics, much of it confusing and contradictory,…
read moreGiven the year-round athletic lifestyle of the average triathlete, moving from a summer of racing to a winter full of running or skiing, there comes a time of the season where things go south. You might have some flavor of overuse injury, you might be burned out, or maybe you are overtrained. You know what I am talking about — the dreaded “mid-season slump.”
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