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Please Welcome Our Newest Class of Wicked Smart Members

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Wicked Smart Members (WSM’s) are TeamEN athletes who’ve been recognized by their peers as being…wicked smart…with wicked triathlon coaching skills. Whenever a WSM speaks on pretty much any topic, their opinions and advice carry as much or more weight as the coaches themselves. WSM nominations are submitted by the Team, not the coaches, with zero…

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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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Top 5 Questions to Ask When Hiring A Triathlon Coach For Your Long Course Race

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Rich and Patrick deliver their Four Keys talk in Madison to TeamEN athletes and ENFans A trial member recently asked the Team for their input about the value of Endurance Nation vs hiring a local triathlon coach to prepare for their next Ironman. Before We Start: Don’t confuse proximity with proficiency. So the guy/gal lives…

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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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Cash for Clunkers Training Plan Trade-In: UPDATE

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t’s been less than a month since we announced our “Cash for Clunkers” training plan trade-in program and we wanted to give you an update: We have paid over $4,000 so triathletes don’t have to train with their old, clunker training plans!

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TeamEN vs IMAZ: Weekend Recap, Results and Race Reports

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Arizonawas the last official IM race appearance for the EN coaches and the next-to-last Ironman® on the ’10 calendar. TeamEN had nearly 20 athletes racing in Tempe. A few of the members arrived on Wednesday and Thursday, and met to preview the bike course and organized their own cocktail hour at Rula Bula in downtown…

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Meet the Team: Arizona

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This weekend TeamEN will be represented by 16 athletes at Ironman® Arizona. Coach Rich be on hand to lead the athletes and their families, including a team dinner on Friday, our Four Keys Talk on Saturday, and rallying up family and friends to support the squad on the run course. We’d like to introduce you…

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State of the Nation, Fall 2010: Part I

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September traditionally marks the end of the season for Endurance Nation, as we use Ironman® Wisconsin as a opportunity to reflect on the year, extract valuable lessons, and make plans to implement changes in 2011. Actually, this process is continuous, internally, but for many reasons a lot of stuff just comes together for us around…

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The OutSeason® and Season Planning Case Studies

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Since bringing on board our latest crew of 100+ members and now with the launch of our OutSeason® training plan sales, we’ve been fielding a LOT of season planning questions and discussions. Here are four case studies to help you manage your triathlon season the EN way.

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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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