Meet the members of Team Endurance Nation shaking off the winter dust and getting an early start at the Ironman race season at 2014 Ironman 70.3 Texas.
read moreAn excerpt from Endurance Nation’s new eBook for first time Ironman competitors. The coaches offer advice on tackling your first Ironman swim.
read moreEndurance Nation and blueseventy announce a 2014 partnership to bring Team members access to the resources they need to become better open water swimmers.
read moreSwimming holds a unique space in triathlon. It’s the shortest of all three distances on race day, yet it often holds the highest level of stress. From our perspective as coaches, swimming is also the most costly training activity you can engage in. For these reasons, we strongly recommend that you implement a swimming ban in…
read moreLake Placid is one of the crown jewels of the North American Ironman® circuit. It has something for everyone, from a great course to race on to a beautiful backdrop for your friends and family to enjoy their trip as well. But it’s still an Ironman, and it’s still going to try and put the…
read moreCoeur d’Alene 2013 was Dino Sarti’s first Ironman® and, more importantly, was a significant milestone in a personal health and lifestyle transformation that he began over 3 years, and many, many pounds ago. Dino is local to Coach Rich, and he’s had the pleasure of training with Dino, watching him grow as an athlete and…
read moreTeam Endurance Nation is deep into the race season and hard at work in the Race Preparation Phase of their training. The Race Prep phase of all of our training plans is 10 to 12 weeks. During this period, training becomes much more race specific on a number of levels. Below are our thoughts, notes,…
read moreI’ve got news for you. The former swimmers in the triathlon community are sandbagging. We have formed a conspiracy to keep swim splits ridiculously slow, compared to what we could do “back in the day.” We can do this because we have a stroke and you don’t. If you guys spent as much money improving…
read moreFor years we’ve been advising our athletes to swim less, or not all, during the off-season. We are not “anti-swimming.” Rather we want you to carefully consider your return on race day for every training minute, and dollar, you spend across the year. Our advice below is then based on our observations We’ve found that…
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