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The Three Year Plan: Year One Objectives

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In the first installment of this series, we introduced you to our Three Year Plan and described the lifecycle of the typical age group long course triathlete. Below we share with you the Year 1 objectives we have for our new athletes: Objective #1: Learn How to Train Like a Vet One of the hallmarks of…

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The Endurance Nation Three Year Plan for Triathlon Excellence: Introduction

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The modern world presents us with few opportunity to step into a physical arena and complete a grueling test, earning a title in the process that is widely recognized as being pretty badass. And so, inspired by heroic tales of endurance, the Kona coverage you saw on TV, or maybe to kickstart or celebrate a…

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Getting Your Power Back During the OutSeason®

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Endurance Nation’s 2015 OutSeason® has begin, with our November OS crew having performed their initial power tests. We’re seeing several comments about “I ustacould do this and I ustahave an FTP of that.” So the natural question is: “How long / how much work will it take to get that back?” Below is based on…

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IRONMAN® Arizona, the Complete Race Breakdown, by Endurance Nation

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA After preparing all year for this late-season event, athletes competing at IRONMAN® Arizona can help themselves have a great race-day experience with these helpful tips. Formerly an April event, IMAZ moved to November in 2008 because of the intense heat and challenges associated with racing at that time of year. The current…

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IRONMAN® Chattanooga Race Report: Victor Heredia, 12:10, from IMLT to IMChoo in 6 days!

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IMChoo was my second first Ironman (after being smoked out from IMLake Tahoe). I think it is appropriate to tell a little bit of my journey to my first Ironman. I signed up for IMLT in March 2014 after a backcountry ski day in Lake Tahoe. The idea of completing an Ironman sounded like a…

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IRONMAN® Chattanooga Race Report: Mark Roberts, 10:05, 1:08 PR!

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Team Roberts at IMChatt, enjoying the finish after a great race! Overall Stats: Time 10:05:26. Swim – 53:23 T1 6:00 Bike – 5:19:40 T2 – 4:18 Run – 3:42:07. 23 AG of 400 or so starters.  121 Overall.  This was my 6th Ironman but first since 2010, and my first since I really got more…

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IRONMAN® Chattanooga Race Report: Tim Cronk, 9:57, 2nd AG, Kona!

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Tim and Heather, post race Tim had an awesome race at Chattanooga…and is set to race Kona this weekend, only two weeks later! This is his race report Quick Stats Time  9:57:08 ,  Swim 53:16 , T1 5:11 , Bike 5:10:49 , T2 2:18 , Run  3:45:34 ….  2nd place M50-54AG out of 184 starters…

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Special Offer for Ironman Lake Tahoe Athletes

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TeamEN at IRONMAN® Lake Tahoe 2014 Ironman Lake Tahoe Athletes, Well, you guys have certainly been through a lot in the last week! From the highs, chaos, and anticipation of race week, to the crushing let down of having the race cancelled, to waiting for WTC’s resolution, to many “what do I do now??!!” questions.…

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IRONMAN® Chattanooga, the Complete Race Breakdown, by Endurance Nation

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Coach Rich Strauss has conducted three training camps on the course for over 75 athletes and Endurance Nation has fielded over 100 Ironman® Finishers since the first running of the event in 2014. These are his tips for the race: Timing of the Event The timing of an event should the #1 criteria you use for…

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2014 IRONMAN® Wisconsin Race Report: Scott Giljum, 11:14, 45′ PR!

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This is my first ever race report, so just go with me. The short of it is that I set a PR by about 45 minutes, shaving time in all three areas as well as the two transitions (booms all around). I finished at 11:14.xx and was 51 in my age group. Now the LONG…

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