Arrival Day On Thursday afternoon 24 Chattanooga campers arrived at the hotel to start a weekend of course training. Some camp members have raced together before so there were familiar faces, others have virtually trained together and were meeting each other for the first time. All in all it was smiles, laughs and of course…
read moreEvery 1st and 3rd Monday of the month, Endurance Nation hosts #ENTriChat on Twitter. The chat is a chance for athletes around the world to learn new information, share their opinions and of course, possibly win some swag along the way. ENERGYbits® are tiny algae tabs so nutritionally dense, they eliminate fatigue and hunger…
read moreIn Part I we discussed the considerations for training the bike and run in hills. Let’s now turn our attention to racing a hilly course properly. The Bike Ride Steady and Conserve Matches Think of your legs as books of matches. The number of matches in your legs is finite, you only have so many…
read moreDay 3: Mast Gap Annex, Beech Mountain, Shulls Mill and even a Jagaround! After riding Mount Mitchell, it’s hard to find something that folks will still find epic. The answer? Shorten the ride to the suffering but work even harder! Beech Mountain is a three mile climb that averages around 9%. It so happened that…
read moreEndurance Nation puts on several key volume camps for our athletes and the general triathlon community. These camps are an opportunity to inject some serious endurance fitness into your seasonal progression, but they are hard to find and harder to get into. We have two specific camps left for 2015 that have a few open slots. Please review the options and consider joining us!
read moreCoach Rich, coming to a bike course near you! Please read the blog post and watch the video below, as Coach Rich explains the rules and their practical application, from his experience as an long course triathlete, coaching, and having ridden motorcycle support for many Ironman® events. Note that the intent of this post…
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We’ve talked quite a bit on our race execution posts on this blog about how to ride hills in a long course triathlon, but we have done relatively little on how to execute on a windy day. And I recently returned from Ironman® Coeur d’Alene, where strong winds on the out and back section of highway…
read moreToday was the first day of our annual Blue Ridge Cycling Camp. A pilgrimage to the warmer climates, this four-day camp is a chance to boost some critical bike fitness and prepare for a breakthrough season. This year we have 20 campers, and we are based out of Boone, N.C. We chose Boone for the…
read moreAn excerpt from “Crossing the Line,” Endurance Nation’s new eBook, offers useful tips for conquering the Ironman bike course for the first time.
read moreRoad Goes Up…Road Comes Down — Switzerland Mountain Road by www.calliflower.com There are very few triathlon bike courses that are really truly difficult. I mean, like evil difficult…as though the race director is out to punish you. But that doesn’t stop the average triathlete from making most courses harder than they were intended to be.…
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