Training

Mastering the Clock: How Time Management Transforms Athletic Performance

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Ever felt you’re too busy to train? You’re not alone. Most of us juggle many roles. Work. Family. Life. It’s tough. So, where does fitness fit in? Often, it’s not about training harder. It’s about training smarter.

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The Importance of Reflecting on Lessons Learned in Endurance Training

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Dive deep into the world of endurance athletes, exploring the transformative power of self-reflection, tools for peak performance, and strategies to navigate training challenges.

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Creating an Equipment Calendar

Creating an Equipment Calendar

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Successful endurance athletes are constantly monitoring all of their systems. Sleep, stress, training load, etc. All of these systems interact to create the environment in which they train and the conditions under which they forge fitness and ultimately success. But at the end of the day, these athletes are humans just like you. There are…

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Coach Patrick on the Run at Arizona

Long Course Athletes: Stop Running Longer than 2.5 Hours!

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In a recent blog post I challenged the scheduling of the long run on Sundays following the traditional long ride on Saturday. I’d like to stir things up again by encouraging you to stop running longer than 2.5hrs in your weekly long run. Ironman® athletes will often receive advice from training partners or coaches who…

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How to Zwift to Endurance Success – EN Edition

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How to Zwift to Cycling Success (Buckle up, this is a long resource. Click here if you want to ride with TeamEN.) Maybe you’ve seen it online. Maybe you’ve seen it in your Strava feed… Your friends training on a remote island somewhere in the Pacific. You’ve seen new records and new challenges. And you…

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The Strategy, Skill and Lessons from Racing Back-to-Back-to-Back

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When I decided to tackle Ironman Cabo just four weeks after the World Championships, my goal was to carry my fitness forward in order to earn another spot to Hawaii. I was disappointed with my performance on the Big Island and wanted a second shot. This was to be my 25th Ironman® race, and I…

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Why Picking A Single Sport is Your Fastest Path to Triathlon Excellence

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The most precious and scarce resource of the busy age group triathlete is time. As coaches exclusively of age group triathletes, just like you, we are actually time investment managers. We are charged with maximizing the return on race day of our athletes’ time investments across the season. We continually ask ourselves these three key…

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Considerations for Changing Your Triathlon Distance Focus

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This is the time of year when triathletes assess their season and begin to choose their races for next season. Many triathletes decide to change their triathlon distance focus moving, for example, from focusing on short course races to trying their hand at the 70.3 distance, or making the jump from the half Ironman distance…

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Five Tips for Short Course Triathletes

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On March 1st we will launch a brand new suite of Short Course training plans. In late March we plan to recruit a small squad of short course athletes to help us create a space on our team to meet their Short Course needs. Over the next few months TeamEN will work to expand our training plans, guidance, and Team mojo into the Short Course triathlon space.

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Food on Bike

Short Course Race Nutrition

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Since race day nutrition is such a big part of Ironman racing, and because Ironman racing generates so much noise in the triathlon space, it’s difficult to find good guidance on how to fuel yourself for a short course triathlon. It’s not uncommon to see new triathletes in their first short course races racking their bikes with 4 bottles of sports drink and 10 gels taped to the top tube — bringing an Ironman nutrition plan to a short course triathlon.

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