Race Day Nutrition Masterclass featuring Jade Winter, sports nutritionist, with endurance athletes, sports foods and Qwik Kiwi Coaching branding.

Race Day Nutrition for Endurance Athletes: Fuelling, Hydration, Sports Foods & Supplements

Discover how to optimise your race day nutrition with sports nutritionist Jade Winter. Learn practical strategies for carbohydrate loading, fuelling, hydration, gut training and supplements. Whether you’re preparing for a half marathon, marathon, triathlon or Ironman, this masterclass will help you develop a personalised nutrition plan for race day success.

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The ABCDS of Recovery framework by Coach Ray, showing cool-down, stretching, hydration, dietary requirements and sleep for endurance athletes.

The ABCDS of Recovery: Five Simple Habits to Recover Better, Adapt Faster & Perform Stronger

Discover Coach Ray’s ABCDS of Recovery: five practical habits covering cool-downs, stretching, hydration, dietary requirements and sleep to help endurance athletes recover better, adapt faster and perform stronger.

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Open water swimming for triathletes – swimmer navigating a turning buoy, illustrating race-day tactics, sighting and confidence.

Open Water Swimming for Triathletes: Race-Day Tactics, Confidence & Smarter Swimming 🏊🌊

Open water swimming requires more than fitness. Discover practical triathlon swimming tactics covering race-day preparation, breathing control, warm-ups, drafting, sighting, currents and waves. Coach Ray shares advice for Ironman Florida, Challenge Wānaka, Ironman New Zealand and Mount Maunganui to help you swim confidently and conserve energy for the bike and run.

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Coach Ray cycling beside a lake with Jasper Philipsen Performance indoor cycling workout title and intensity chart

Sunday Smart Trainer Session: Jasper Philipsen Performance – A Short, Sharp Cycling Workout 🚴🔥

Jasper Philipsen Performance is a short, structured indoor cycling workout featuring progressive intensity changes and two demanding finishing efforts. Inspired by a Zwift Tour Fever session, this 31-minute workout challenges cyclists to manage their pacing, recover between intervals and develop controlled high-intensity power within a balanced endurance training programme.

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half marathon fuelling

If You Wait Until You’re Tired, It’s Already Too Late: Half Marathon Fueling Explained

Many runners wait until they feel tired before taking fuel during a half marathon. Unfortunately, by then it may already be too late. Learn why early fuelling, practising your race nutrition, and training your gut can help you maintain pace, avoid late-race fatigue, and finish stronger on race day.

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Two triathletes swimming freestyle in a mountain lake, promoting triathlon swim workouts for technique, Broken 400s and endurance.

Saturday Swim Session: Improve Freestyle Technique & Swim Faster With Broken 400s

Improve your triathlon swimming with three structured workouts targeting freestyle technique, endurance and sustainable speed. Discover how Broken 400s develop consistent pacing, while targeted swimming drills improve stroke efficiency. These 7,400 metres of purposeful training will help Olympic-distance, Ironman 70.3 and T100 triathletes swim smarter, stronger and faster.

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Triathlete Harrison cycling in an aero position during a race, featured in Coach Ray's Nothing New on Race Day triathlon tips article.

Nothing New on Race Day: The Triathlon Rule That Could Save Your Race

Avoid unnecessary surprises on triathlon race day by following one simple rule: nothing new. Learn why testing your equipment, nutrition, breakfast, pacing and transitions during training is essential. Discover how familiar routines, proper preparation and race-day confidence can help prevent costly mistakes and deliver a stronger triathlon performance.

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Coach Ray cycling in a road race alongside the Base-Building Bike Trainer Pyramids workout intensity chart, featuring two progressive cycling pyramids and Qwik Kiwi Coaching branding.

Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Base-Building Bike Trainer Pyramids

Build cycling endurance and threshold power with Base-Building Bike Trainer Pyramids. This structured 68-minute indoor cycling workout features two progressive pyramids ranging from 85% to 105% FTP. Improve muscular endurance, pacing and fatigue resistance with Coach Ray’s training tips, then ride the complete session on Qwik Kiwi Velocity.

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Two triathletes in wetsuits beside an alpine lake, featured in Qwik Kiwi Coaching's three triathlon swim workouts for technique, endurance and speed.

Saturday Swim Session: Build Swim Efficiency, Endurance & Sustainable Speed With Three Structured Workouts

Improve your triathlon swimming with three structured workouts designed to develop freestyle technique, endurance and sustainable speed. This week’s Saturday Swim Session features Qwik Kiwi Performance Swim Sessions 04, 05 and 06, combining technique drills, 1,000m endurance efforts and 200m intervals to help you swim faster and more efficiently.

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Cyclist Jason riding his road bike during a race, featured in Coach Ray's Learn to Finish Strong cycling endurance and pacing article.

Learn to Finish Strong: How to Build Cycling Endurance and Stop Fading at the End of Your Workouts

Learn how to finish cycling workouts strong by improving pacing, endurance and power consistency. Discover why starting too hard can compromise your final intervals, how to maintain smooth cadence and technique as fatigue builds, and why proper recovery and fuelling help you execute every workout effectively from start to finish.

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