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Stop Running Long on Sunday

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I’ve been fightin’ this fight for years and, in my opinion, it’s a clear line in the sand that separates Old from New Skool. It clearly identifies coaches and self-coached athletes who get it vs those who don’t have enough experience, haven’t done it themselves, and/or haven’t stepped back to think things through more critically.

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"Living Life to the Full — My Ironman Journey," by Ellen Charnley

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Ellen Charnley is a TeamEN member and has been with us for about nine months. She trained with us through Arizona last year. But Ellen is no “ordinary” Ironman® finisher — she underwent open heart surgery to fix several holes in heart less than 8 months before the race, and she has written a book,…

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Short Course Triathlon Race Pacing

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Let’s talk about how to pace a short course triathlon (Sprint or Olympic distance). But first we’ll need to establish a common “training zone” language so we’re all on the same page.

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Another Reason Against Year-Round Swimming (Plus A Challenge!)

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It’s pretty well-known by now that Endurance Nation recommends that you don’t swim during out OutSeason® training cycle. That means for a grand total of five months, our athletes aren’t swimming a single stroke. This approach has generated a lot of buzz, mostly negative, that how we train is in someway incomplete. After all, what’s a triathlon training plan without swimming in it? The Long Answer: It’s an incredibly focused approach to building the required bike and run fitness that will carry you through a personal best on race day. The Short Answer: Re-Learning how to swim is better than constantly swimming and making tweaks.

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A Practical Strategy for Improving Body Composition

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The holidays have left us, a new season has begun, and it’s time to get serious about preparing for our races this year. Our community has developed some cool strategies and perspectives about improving body composition and we’d like to share them with you here. Body Composition is the 5th Sport of Ironman® Triathlon Swim…

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Five Common Half Ironman Mistakes

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It’s no secret that Ironman racing (the 140.6 mile version) has become crazy popular, with races selling out a year in advance, often in only minutes. As a result, Ironman-focused conversations dominate the triathlon space. Yet probably 90% of these Ironman triathletes race one, two, three or more half Ironman events enroute to their full Ironman distance event. Our combined 20 years of coaching and racing experience has shown that the 70.3 distance is a different race entirely from the Ironman. If you want to be successful at the half iron distance you’ll need to bring more to the table than your Ironman fitness and some good luck.

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Over-Acheiving on Cycling Intervals

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At this time, December 2010, nearly all of our 500 athletes are training inside the Team with our OutSeason® training plan. They have grouped themselves into October, November, December, and January OutSeason® groups, and have begun to share workout results and notes with each other. This is a great motivational and accountability tool, and is…

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Triathlon Coaching PSA #132: No Winter Swimming

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If you are like me, you don’t like to wait. We live in an on-demand world, and nowhere is this more true than in the realm of our performance, where we seek out incremental speed gains by dropping cash on wheels and carbon widgets. If you are planning on being faster next season, and are ready to do the work to get there, here’s the single best tip we can give you this winter: Stop Swimming.

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EN OutSeason vs Old Skool Offseason

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It’s Fall and time for another annual rewrite of our OutSeason® training plans. It’s also the season of the recycled, paraphrased training advice that appears in the tri mags year after year as Coaches try to catch your attention— by telling you the same advice that everyone else is telling you, apparently. We do things…

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Wisconsin 2010 Race Report Podcast and Video Series

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We have a tradition of catching all of our athletes at the finishline…and then capturing their experiences on video right away, or a few days later via podcast interview. If you are interested in racing Ironman® Wisconsin, these podcasts especially should very valuable for you. It’s one thing to read the race report of a…

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