Running Resilience

Building running resilience… with frequency?

Want to improve your running but not ready for / don’t have the time or inclination for long, heavy run kilometers?

Try increasing the frequency of running… Run short and run often whilst still completing 2-3 key run session ...

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Paul Moore – KONA Bound!

Paul Moore… Off To KONA! 🌴

Congratulations and well done to Paul Moore on qualifying for Kona at Cairns last weekend 🚀

After racing for 10h 18m and putting together his best Ironman performance to date (Note: NOT fastest time) Paul ended ‘in the mix’ in his AGR ...

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This Ain’t No Tour Bus!

’This ain’t no tour bus’…

Love this quote from Coach John Hellmans.

Translation: fitness and performance take hard work and perseverance.

The best results, you will work for. Progression wont be linear, and that is ok!

Don’t like it: jump on the tour bus ...

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JUNK Miles

Say no to JUNK miles… the proof is in the name.

Each and every session should have a purpose and this will guide your execution of it. Some easy sessions aren’t necessarily junk miles. Easy can take on many forms. Recovery, prepatory, adaptation or technical development.

If ...

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Health and Performance –> Age Grouper Life

Great image from Endure IQ.

This is the way to look at your triathlon / endurance sport in the context of your life…

First of all you should ENJOY the sport – that is why we start and that is how it should stay… if it is starting to affect your enjoyment, something ...

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Self Discipline

For those struggling with motivation and commitment a lovely little quote from the one and only Eliud Kipchoge:

“Self-discipline starts with you. It’s no other person. It starts with you. Start to examine yourself…Self discipline is doing what’s right instead of doing what you feel ...

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Create Sustainability…

Boring, ‘mediocre’ sessions…

The best training blocks are built on ‘medicocre’ sessions!

We don’t hear of the basics much… because they arent so ‘sexy’

But your mediocre, basic, simple sessions and daily habits that bridge to, fill and allow adaption ...

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Season Planning… Five Tips.

This is the time of the year to reflect, reset and reload. Reflection includes looking back at the previous season and the races within it and determining whether you achieved what you set out to achieve and if you are happy with your progression.

Resetting involves taking this information ...

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Post Season Planning: Reflect, Reset, Reload. Make Next Season Your Best Yet!

Post Season: Reflect, Reset, Reload…

Your season is done. Next season seems so far away. Do you keep training? Do you take a ‘break’? The period of post season / off season, and then the prepatory and build phases (often loosely labeled ‘winter training’) can be tricky to nav ...

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Food…

Eating and fueling…

Make better choices!

– Eat wholesome, REAL food

– Eat lots of plants

– Avoid packaged, refined foods

– Avoid excessive sugar

– Eat to you needs

– Stay hydrated… mainly with WATER

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