Mike, Thank you for offering the Quarterly (12 week) Custom Plans for athletes with monthly feedback! I have used D3Multisport training plans in the past; one-on-one services, a few online plans to help jump start my cycling season. Having had great success with Mike’s plans in the past, I knew I would call upon him…
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For May, our MIX1 Athlete of the Month is Kathleen Steffe! Kathleen swam, biked and ran herself to 2nd place in the 50-54 AG at Ironman St George earlier this month. You are probably thinking to yourself, “Well, she’s 50, she’s been doing this a while and has tons of experience, of course she was…
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Recipe for Completing the Perfect Workout Sometimes coaches and athletes have different ideas about what makes for a great workout. As a coach, the easiest part of my job is posting a workout. As an athlete, the easiest part of your job should be doing them. Sure, some workouts are really, really tough and some…
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Case Study Male Athlete’s Statistics: Height: 6’1 Weight: 200 lbs Race: 70.3 Galveston, TX Report: The athlete hydrated every 10-15 minutes averaging 30 oz of fluid an hour totaling 75 oz on the bike portion. Took in about 480 calories an hour (288 from liquid, 192 from gels). Total sodium intake per hour was 1160…
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It’s funny, but it’s one of the most common questions I get during the last weeks of training before the season’s first race is “How can I be sure that I’m ready?” Well… If you’re not ready by now, there’s not much you can do. There is a TON of good advice out there on…
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Off-season training is over and your first race of the season is coming up. How are you going to get ready? If you are like most of the country, you live in an area that doesn’t provide open water swim opportunities until the summer months. In order to prepare, you’ll need to create an environment…
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Last month I talked about the “Myth of LSD” and how base training was essentially your chance to set yourself up to have a good race season while improving your aerobic fitness. Now that you are into your base season, or at least you should be, you can gauge your fitness by jumping into some…
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Whenever improving technique is a goal, a good coach will usually suggest a set of drills to help isolate a particular part of the big picture. Although they are a HUGE part of training in swimming and running, they just aren’t as prevalent in cycling – ESPECIALLY mountain biking. So if you’ve been wanting to…
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It’s hard to think about indoor training when you are starting your morning workout with a view like I am today- (the turquoise and blue waters of the Bahamas). However, if you want to make a significant improvement in your bike split, cycling indoors, at least for your testing and higher intensity workouts, is the…
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Here’s an opportunity to use the math you learned in high school. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. What does this have to do with triathlon? A lot, especially during the swim leg. Most of us log countless pool laps during the winter months focusing on technique or volume or intensity…
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