The holidays have a funny way of turning even the most organized endurance athlete into a confused version of themselves.
read moreThe specificity-focused week teaches your body how to hold race pace, especially under fatigue. The traditional week teaches your body how to run easy. One of these athletes crosses the finish line strong. The other is simply hoping.
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Ever felt you’re too busy to train? You’re not alone. Most of us juggle many roles. Work. Family. Life. It’s tough. So, where does fitness fit in? Often, it’s not about training harder. It’s about training smarter.
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Dive deep into the world of endurance athletes, exploring the transformative power of self-reflection, tools for peak performance, and strategies to navigate training challenges.
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Successful endurance athletes are constantly monitoring all of their systems. Sleep, stress, training load, etc. All of these systems interact to create the environment in which they train and the conditions under which they forge fitness and ultimately success. But at the end of the day, these athletes are humans just like you. There are…
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In a recent blog post I challenged the scheduling of the long run on Sundays following the traditional long ride on Saturday. I’d like to stir things up again by encouraging you to stop running longer than 2.5hrs in your weekly long run. Ironman® athletes will often receive advice from training partners or coaches who…
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How to Zwift to Cycling Success (Buckle up, this is a long resource. Click here if you want to ride with TeamEN.) Maybe you’ve seen it online. Maybe you’ve seen it in your Strava feed… Your friends training on a remote island somewhere in the Pacific. You’ve seen new records and new challenges. And you…
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When I decided to tackle Ironman Cabo just four weeks after the World Championships, my goal was to carry my fitness forward in order to earn another spot to Hawaii. I was disappointed with my performance on the Big Island and wanted a second shot. This was to be my 25th Ironman® race, and I…
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The most precious and scarce resource of the busy age group triathlete is time. As coaches exclusively of age group triathletes, just like you, we are actually time investment managers. We are charged with maximizing the return on race day of our athletes’ time investments across the season. We continually ask ourselves these three key…
read moreThis is the time of year when triathletes assess their season and begin to choose their races for next season. Many triathletes decide to change their triathlon distance focus moving, for example, from focusing on short course races to trying their hand at the 70.3 distance, or making the jump from the half Ironman distance…
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