Seconds Count…. Even in IronMan races…. Finding Free Speed It’s very easy in any Triathlon to dismiss a few seconds lost, or gained, as inconsequential to the end result. However, if you are in the race to PR or perhaps podium, and many people have one or both of these goals at sometime in their…
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If you are new to triathlon and want to get a handle on a coach’s honesty, and diplomatic skill, tell your prospective coach you are looking for someone to train you for your first ironman distance race. You can tell him about the few sprint races you’ve done and perhaps are a bit more seasoned…
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Five years ago this month my wife Ingrid had a stroke. It’s an event we sure wished we could have avoided, and we could have had we understood the warning signals. Since then I have thought about writing this article. It does not quite seem right to use the tragedy of a major illness to…
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Recently along the Front Range we had our first outdoor Triathlon of the season. Temperatures had been in the 80’s earlier in the week but Friday night the mercury plummeted and the wind started to blow hard from the North. This particular race is held in Longmont at Union Reservoir in open country. There is…
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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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I first wrote this article for Slowtwitch in 2004. At that time very few companies made Compact Cranks with FSA the only one selling well. The response from some of the Guru’s of the sport on the Slowtwitch Forum was to say the least scathing. I knew I was right and after getting support from…
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