Chef Ray – Angus Beef Salad
Full of flavour, this meal provides the taste of Asian mixed with quality Kiwi southern man style attitude.
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Book of the Month May 2021 – The Essential Swimmer
This is the essential guide to a successful swimming program for fitness and competitive swimmers alike, filled with concise, practical advice on everything from basic stroke technique to advanced training programs. It will teach you how to identify your own stroke, kick, body position, and breathing flaws, and provides innovative drills to correct errors in form. Steve Tarpinian is an experienced swimming coach and an Ironman triathlete.
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Saturday Swim Session: Fast Freddie’s Favourite
Maintaining your Threshold speed is the key to swimming success in longer events of greater than 1,000m. This session works on further developing your threshold and your ability to maintain it. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 VO2max Booster
VO2 Max efforts help to build your engine. A bigger engine means you can be more efficient at lower intensities, leaving more in reserve to go faster. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
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Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Nate Wilson’s Threshold Climbing Work #2
When riding long climbs, maintaining threshold intensity with out big fluctuations is the way to go. The effort should be the maximum that you can sustain without dropping power from one effort to the next. This session is great for all cyclists including triathletes and mountain bikers.
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Chef Ray – ANZAC Biscuits
With ANZAC Day (the equivalent of Memorial Day or Remembrance Day in Australia and New Zealand) today and it being school holiday’s my 9 year old daughter wanted to do some baking. ANZAC Biscuits like those made by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) troops fighting at Gallipoli in WWI. Simple and easy to make.
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Saturday Swim Session: GTN’s Sub-Hour Ironman Swim Progression Set
Completing the Ironman Swim in under 60 minutes is a significant achievement. Consistent pacing and sustained effort is the key to achieving this goal. This session tests your capability to maintain the pace and is a breakdown of a longer set. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
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Friday Fartlek Run: Zwift Academy Tri 2020 Long Course Race Simulation
At the end of an event when your body is fatigued is when you get tested the most. This session aims to build that fatigue early, so your body can experience and adapt to the stimulus making your more prepared for that stage of the event. All runners (and triathletes) can benefit from this higher intensity of training, especially athletes with events from 10km out to a marathon.
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Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Nate Wilson’s Threshold Climbing Work #1
When riding long climbs, maintaining threshold intensity with out big fluctuations is the way to go. The effort should be the maximum that you can sustain without dropping power from one effort to the next. This session is great for all cyclists including triathletes and mountain bikers.
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Chef Ray – Beef Lentil Beetroot & Feta Salad
This was a fantastic salad that I took to a shared meal and it was a massive hit.
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