TRIATHLON TIPS /NEWS

This section will offer you tips on improving your triathlon goals. Check back often for new tips, or sign up for our newsletter and be notified when we add new triathlon tips, programs and more.

How to be a Tri-Mate
Here I sit at my home office trying in vain to work, while my husband is riding his trainer about six feet next to me. He is watching the newest X-Men so loudly that you would think that we are in a mega-movie theatre, instead of our 500 square foot basement.
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Improving swimming Technique with the FINIS Swimmers Snorkel
One of my masters swimmers once described learning how to swim as “learning to break dance on the back of a moving horse!” I love this description because it drives home the point that swimming involves learning to do many difficult tasks at the same time.
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Making the most of your Off Season Training
As we head into the fall and winter months most of us are now in the off season. Although we will start again soon enough, it is vitally important to make the most of our off season.
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Lactate Threshold - The most important test an athlete will ever take
Imagine an engineer is doing some Mathematical calculations to come up with the maximum load in tons that a bridge can carry.
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Transitions, attention to detail can give you free speed
I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny details that might commonly be overlooked.
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PowerCranks. More power for less effort.
When I heard the doctor at the emergency room tell me that my shattered elbow would be the end of my season, I was devastated. Missing a season of racing would make it very difficult to return to the level of fitness that I was in.
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Motivation, (an endurance athlete’s secret weapon)
“Why do you do it? Why on earth do you put your body through that? I don’t even drive my car that far. You are crazy!”
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Race Day Checklist
After competing in Triathlon for almost eleven years now I have developed a recurring nightmare.
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Time saving tips for the 9 to 5 endurance athlete
I just made it home from work and I only have about two hours of sunlight left to get a ride in.
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Race Nutrition
Here we are in the middle of February, and race day nutrition is probably one of the last things on most of our minds.
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