Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Bike Radar’s Race Pace with Sprints
This is a great workout for developing your VO2 Max within a longer ride. This is perfect for short course triathletes and also road racers and mountain bikers.
Chef Ray – Cauliflower Fried Rice with Sausage
This is easy and qwik to whip up without much preparation, it includes plenty of vegetables with a reasonable amount of protein from the sausages.
Saturday Swim Session – Test Yourself With a Time Trial
Swimming time trials is a great way to test yourself and measure your progress. Incorporating them into your programme regularly gives you an idea of how your fitness is changing. This workout is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer ocean swims.
Friday Fartlek Run: VO2 Max 10x 3min
The ability to run at your top end intensities will enhance your performance. This session works at your VO2 Max intensity, challenging your anaerobic, as well as your aerobic energy systems. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to Half Marathon in distance.
Thursday Training Plan: 8 Weeks to a FASTER 10k
This programme is one of my staples and works great for pure runners and triathletes racing both sprint and olympic distance. It has been designed for people who run between 35 and 50 minutes currently for 10km and really puts some spark in your legs over the next 8 weeks. To follow this programme effectively I highly recommend some sort of GPS watch like a Garmin and I’ve also included power based workouts if you’ve paired your Garmin with a running power meter like a Stryd.
Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Bike Radar’s FTP Improver
This is a great workout for developing your VO2 Max within a longer ride. This is perfect for short course triathletes and also road racers and mountain bikers.
Chef Ray – Banana, Raspberry & Walnut Loaf
This is the perfect snack post training or to get your through the afternoon.
Saturday Swim Session – Lotza Doubles
Swimming 67m reps (double lengths of a 33⅓ yard or metre pool) with a good rest can develop your speed and swimming them with short rests can develop your endurance. Put lots together within the one workout with a mixture of rest and you can develop speed, endurance and speed endurance. This workout is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer ocean swims.
Friday Fartlek Run: VO2 Max 8x 3min
The ability to run at your top end intensities will enhance your performance. This session works at your VO2 Max intensity, challenging your anaerobic, as well as your aerobic energy systems. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to Half Marathon in distance.
Chef Ray – Buffalo and Sweet Potato Tacos
These were fantastic taco’s with just the right amount of kick. These are great to take on the road or to work as a lunch. Just put the segments in separate containers and then make when it’s time to eat.
4 weeks ago
Another park run under my belt. Perfect conditions this morning. It was kind of cool (till I started sweating), overcast and not much wind. I did my best to catch the woman in front of me and closed the gap a little however the gap then stretched a bit in the last kilometer and the results showed that we finished 5 seconds apart. . . . #parkrun #parkrunnz #greytownparkrun #woodside #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner #runnersofinstagram #parkrunnersofinstagram- 2 weeks ago
First run for 2020 this morning. My legs felt fine however I was puffing more than usual for this pace. A bit more consistency in my training will fix that. . . . #fitness2020 #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner #runnersofinstagram #maturerunner #stretching #chickenlegs #muscles - 4 weeks ago
Nice day for a #run . I’m wanting to reset the #lactatethreshold on my @garmin as there is no way I’m in the form that I was when the lactate threshold was detected so I manually reset it ridiculously low but it doesn’t seem to have auto detected I was running faster/harder than the current set threshold #coachray #qwikkiwi - 2 weeks ago
Finished my 44th park run this morning. Legs were a bit like "really? " before I warmed up and reminded them what they needed to do. Lack of running over Christmas New Year showed in my results Photo credit - Dave White #parkrun #parkrunnz #greytownparkrun #run #runner #running #athlete former #triathlete #duathlete #keepinghealthy #keepingfit #fitover60 #oldandfit #maturerunner #womenrunners #consistency #consistencyisthekey #qwikkiwi #instagram #instarunner #runnersofinstagram #movingforward - 4 days ago
Been a warm 4 hours. Nearly home #p5 #Ironm āori #IMNZ @cervelocycles Powered by @performancebicycletuning #qwikkiwi - 2 weeks ago
Shit views on this todays brick session ♂️♂️ Shout out to everyone down at the Mount, give it heaps tomorrow, be your best you #IMNZ #Ironm āori #portoftaurangahalf #qwikkiwi #IronmanNZ #swim #bike #run - 2 weeks ago
Spot the green cap! The local Athletics & Harriers Masterton (ACM) Club put on the first in a series of fortnightly 5km run/walk events this morning. Given the leg session I had in the gym on Friday (my quads are still sore from sissy squats) and the park run at Greytown yesterday, I wasn't sure what my legs would be capable of today. My training has been lacking consistency so this might help me get back on track. I have not done this course before. We went twice around the deer enclosure (flattened grass) and then up onto the stop
Ironman Swim PB
I’ve taken my most popular training plan and given it a make over for 2020. I’ve taken the 12 Weeks to an Ironman Swim PB – Swim Faster with Smarter Training and I’ve modified to to expand the programme from 12 weeks and include an option for more than 3 swims per week.
Now the programme has created some great times for athletes competing at Ironman events around the world, but it was overly set in stone. Now if you have got between 8 & 24 weeks to an Ironman and are consistently swimming 3x, 4x or 5x per week, I’ve created an option for you. This is regardless of the length of pool 25m, 33⅓yd or 50m pool.