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News | March 26, 2012
Ironman Melbourne
Wow. What a day it was for Ironman Melbourne. The course logistics made it a little difficult for spectators. If you only had one athlete to support, the folks at WTC had put on a great system of busses and mini finishes lines every 10k to spur athletes on. Pretty…
Read MoreArticle | March 23, 2012
Friday QnA: Long Sessions on trainers, stride rate and swelling
Here are a few questions this week. I’m on my way to Melbourne so I wanted to get this out quick. Q: With so much wet weather I’m spending quite a bit of time on the windtrainer. Could you please tell me – does 1hour on the road = 1hour on the trainer? I don’t want…
Read MoreArticle | March 22, 2012
How to be ready when the canon goes ‘BOOM’
Last year before Ironman Australia I wrote the below. I have made some revisions but I believe the warming up is paramount to the success of your day. Read on below to find out the how’s and whys’ of getting warmed up properly. I find it pretty interesting that athletes…
Read MoreArticle | March 21, 2012
You Are Ready
Ironman Melbourne Oh man it’s getting close and I’m getting excited. In fact so excited that I’m now actually going to be down in Melbourne watching and cheering. I’m excited that I have 30+ athletes racing and hopefully many more I have touched with past coaching and ideas to make their IM days even…
Read MoreArticle | March 20, 2012
What are you chasing?
It’s Ironman race week in the land downunder. For those racing Ironman Melbourne, the nerves are mounting and the energy is so close to being released… It’s pretty damn exciting. Everyone racing shares a common goal. Get to the finish line. Some won’t and that’s unfortunate and it’s just the…
Read MoreArticle | March 19, 2012
Do No Harm
This week is Ironman Melbourne week and in Australia it’s a big event. Nerves will be steadily coming to boil as the week progresses and it all suddenly becomes REAL! If you’re not racing Melbourne… then save this message to when your Ironman or 70.3 is coming up. It will…
Read MoreArticle | March 16, 2012
Friday QnA: The Mental Game, Injury and Cramping
This weeks QnA has given me some more topics to expand on to help you with your triathlon goals. So please keep the questions coming so I can help provide the answers you’re looking for. Q: Hey Kristian, I want finish a race knowing that there was nothing more I…
Read MoreArticle | March 15, 2012
Doubt
Today I was reading my buddies blog over at Urban Ninja and as per usual he has put some very good pen to paper (or I should say finger tips, to keyboard). Will our kids kids still learn the art of handwriting? I hope so. Back in December many of…
Read MoreArticle | March 14, 2012
4 Awesome Outcomes of Repetition [Part 4]
Performance.. it’s what we all strive for right. Underlying that we all want to be fit and healthy and that goal should under pin everything. But we all crave to be faster and why shouldn’t we. We expect to see improvements in our training. This is why repetition works so exceptionally well. Because with…
Read MoreArticle | March 13, 2012
4 Awesome Outcomes to Repetition [Parts 2 and 3]
Last week in part one we learned one of the benefits of the repeated approach is that we can develop our concentration skills which is a massive performance boost in race day. In parts two and three below, I discuss how repetition develops training confidence and how it also improves…
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