Coach Report

Coach Patrick’s 2017 Ironman World Championship Race Report

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For those of you with short attention spans, I went 10:27 on the day.  1:07 swim 5:02 bike 4:04 marathon While it’s not even close to my personal best, the highlight of my day was being able to flex my mental toughness. Racing here is special, and I not only had a great time racing…

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Coach Patrick February 2016 Training Update

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Hard to believe it’s already March 1st and time for another returning update. I know that February is a short month but really, this is ridiculous. So when I last left you in February I was transitioning to the OutSeason® with some intensity. The goals was to bring my higher-end fitness up from the aerobic run…

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Coach P’s January 2016 Training Update

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Coach P at the January Volume Camp Believe it or not, but it’s time for another training update! January was a solid one for me. I don’t really have trouble getting motivated so there were no specific resolutions or occasions that made me dive any deeper into my training. I was coming off of a…

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Ironman Florida 2015 Official Coaches Recap

Coach P

The 2015 Ironman® in Panama City Beach Florida was set against the backdrop of warmer than usual conditions. Despite the fact that several weeks earlier all indications were that things were going to be colder, race day proved otherwise. In fact race day itself revealed some heat and humidity that proved to be the undoing of…

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Coach Patrick — What I Learned During the 2015 Triathlon Season

Coach P

The end of another year is a great chance to review all of our lessons learned…what worked, and what didn’t. As a coach and athlete, I pretty much test all manner of new training protocols on myself before recommenting them to our Endurance Nation athletes. The process of self-improvement is a large part of what…

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Endurance Nation takes on Ironman® Arizona 2014

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Endurance Nation has had over 1000 long course triathlon finishers, per year, since 2010, and were the WTC Tri Club World Champions, Division I, in 2013. Read below to see the journey of the Endurance Nation athletes who conquered the winds of Arizona.   [View the story “Endurance Nation at IRONMAN® Arizona ” on Storify]

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2014 Ironman® Wisconsin Coach's Report

Coach P

2014 was the 13th running of the event and my 12th race weekend in Ironman® Wisconsin, after having raced Wisconsin 3x and done my coaching thing for 9 additional trips to Madison. I’ve also conducted 10 training camps on the course, visiting Madison twice a year every year since 2002. As you can imagine, this has…

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Coach's Race Weekend Report: Couer d'Alene 2014

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2014 was the 12th running of the event and my 10th race weekend in Ironman® Coeur d’Alene, after having raced Coeur d’Alene 3x and done my coaching thing for seven additional trips to Idaho. This has always been a special event for me and I’d like to share the weekend with you, our readers: Thursday…

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