Yesterday I bumped into an old school friend I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years. He works as a baker, although he didn’t give me any secret recipe he inspired a baked item for today’s post. Good to see you Michael. These cookies are easy to make and the cranberries add to the coconut flavour.
View More Chef Ray – Cranberry and Coconut Cookies
With the lead in to Christmas well on the way and Christmas decorations starting to go up (I’ve even heard my first Christmas Carol), it’s time to look at what are my picks for the ten best gifts for runners.
View More Top 10 Gifts For Runners
Negative Split refers to swimming faster in the second half than the first half. This session helps build your intrinsic ability to pace yourself. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Negative Split Threshold Swim
Christmas is nearly here, if your loved ones are struggling for suggestions for a Christmas present for you pass this list of gifts on to them.
View More Top 10 Gifts For Triathletes
Race pace for events longer than half marathon distance for most athletes aren’t run at threshold pace but instead a touch lower with large portions of the event done at Level III. It’s important to expose the body to training at this level of intensity. This is a great workout for someone training for a half to full marathon (whether part of an Ironman or 70.3).
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Steady Plus 85min
Change of training location, from Wellington Region to Manawatu Region.
View More ULTRAHUMPS – Commences Training In The Manawatu Region!
The week started off great, feel I’m repeating myself with this opening sentence, but it did!
View More Mikes’s Middle Distance Magic: How dare Christmas Do’s get in the way!
This is the perfect snack post training, just pull it out of the freezer when you get home. After having a shower it will have defrosted enough and will help replace the fuel used during your workout.
View More Chef Ray – Banana Nut Butter Fudge
It seems my running destiny was determined the day I won a 3 month online training voucher with a bloke called Coach Ray, who helps train beginning and recreational athletes. I had always run for fun, but a long term iliotibial band problem had stopped me running much distance in the last 25 years. Luckily just before winning my Qwik Kiwi voucher, I had also found a fantastic physio who finally sorted out my knee issue. It seemed my running stars had aligned. When Ray asked me what my goals were, I told him that I would quite like to run the Queenstown marathon, and so the training began.
View More Robyn’s Success At Queenstown Marathon
This session is the perfect way to develop your ability to maintain a faster threshold pace whilst swimming. This workout is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer ocean swims.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Enhance Your Threshold Pace With 100m Reps