Stop Testing Your Marathon Fitness: Training Is Preparation, Not Proof
Stop testing your marathon fitness and start trusting your training. Constantly racing long runs, pushing marathon pace, or turning workouts into fitness tests can create unnecessary fatigue. Learn why purposeful training, strategically planned benchmarks, and consistent preparation will tell you more than repeatedly trying to prove you’re marathon-ready.
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Monday’s Brick: USA Triathlon’s Beginner Sprint/Olympic Brick
Prepare for your first Sprint or Olympic triathlon with this beginner-friendly 40-minute brick workout. Progress through controlled cycling intensities before transitioning directly into a Level II run. Practise your bike-to-run transition, learn how your legs respond after cycling, develop pacing control and build confidence for your upcoming triathlon race.
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How to Pace a Half Marathon: Start Smart, Settle In & Finish Strong
Learn how to pace your half marathon by starting smart, settling into race pace, and finishing strong. Discover why banking time early can backfire, how to divide 21.1km into three manageable sections, when to adjust pace for conditions, and how disciplined pacing can help you race your strongest final kilometres.
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Stop Buying Speed Before You’ve Earned It
Before spending thousands chasing marginal gains, make sure you’re getting the most from the bike you already own. Build your fitness, improve your aero position, develop bike-handling skills, practise smart pacing and dial in your fuelling. Earn your speed through training first, then let equipment upgrades enhance your performance.
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Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ Time Effective VO2 Max Intervals -2
Build your VO₂ max with this time-effective 45-minute smart-trainer workout. Jesper Medhus’ Time Effective VO₂ Max Intervals -2 combines a progressive warm-up with two sets of short Level V efforts, challenging you to repeatedly produce high-intensity power while recovering quickly and maintaining consistent quality across all ten hard efforts.
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Saturday Swim Session: Build 1–3 × 100m
Develop better pace control with this Build 1–3 swim workout. Progress from steady to hard to maximum effort across repeated 100m intervals, then reset and go again. Choose from three distances designed to develop speed, pacing awareness and the ability to change gears while maintaining good freestyle technique.
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How to Balance Swimming, Cycling and Running for Your First Triathlon
Learn how to balance swimming, cycling and running when preparing for your first triathlon. Discover why the three disciplines shouldn’t be treated as separate programmes, how to manage intensity and recovery, where to focus your training, and how to progressively bring swim, bike and run together for race day.
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Ride Smooth, Not Just Hard: Why Better Pedalling Makes You a Better Cyclist
Smooth cycling isn’t just about producing more power. Developing a controlled pedal stroke, stable upper body and adaptable cadence can improve efficiency and help you maintain good technique as fatigue builds. Discover how indoor cycling provides the perfect environment to practise smoothness and become a stronger, more capable cyclist.
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Fuel Early, Not When You Feel Like It: Ironman 70.3 Fuelling
Don’t wait until you feel hungry to fuel during your Ironman 70.3. Learn why fuelling early matters, how to develop a consistent race-day nutrition strategy, and why practising your plan during training can help maintain energy, avoid playing catch-up, and set you up for a stronger half marathon run.
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How Brick Training Builds Race-Day Confidence
Brick training does more than prepare your legs for running off the bike. It builds race-day confidence through familiarity, pacing practice and transition skills. Learn how purposeful brick sessions can help Sprint and Olympic triathletes remove uncertainty, trust their preparation and arrive at T2 knowing exactly what comes next.
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