Sim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Colin Izzard’s Power Burst Workout

Testing yourself with max efforts is a great way to develop your speed with an appropriate training stimulus. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their speed.

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Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run: Lisa’s 1km Reps

1 kilometre reps are a simple workout that can help both novices and elites.. This session is great for runners from half marathon runners, especially triathletes aiming for an Ironman 70.3.

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Ironman Self Psych

Ironman Self Psych Form

The purpose of this form, is to assist with your final mental preparation for the Coast to Coast. It will guide you through developing your race plan, as well as assisting you to plan ahead to the what if scenarios that may (but hopefully don’t) unfold for you during the Coast to Coast.

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Tauranga Half Marathon

“When can I run again?” – Mark de Lew

On 22 March 2022 I had an L4 & L5 Discectomy. My first question after Surgery to my Surgeon was “When can I run again?”
He said that “NO one had ever asked that question. Mostly they ask about pain, movement, work etc. Nine out of ten individuals will not run again. Not that they can’t but mentally are afraid”.

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Cycling Session

Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: UltraFit’s Sprints D

Sprints are a great way to build leg strength and power generation. This is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.

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Swim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 4

Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session involve a range of paces to develop the skill and mindset to finish an open water swim or swim leg of a triathlon with stamina. There are some progressive paces used to build your fitness. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.

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Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run – Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Build Run B

This session was designed for triathletes to finish strong in the run leg of an Ironman 70.3 event but will be of equal benefit for athletes running as short as 5km to develop tolerance to lactic acid.

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Cycling Session

Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Jesper Medhus’ Day 11 Session

Developing your VO2 max without overdoing things will give great fitness benefits, but doing too many intervals at high intensity will force the body to recover, limiting and restricting further fitness gains. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.

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Swim Session

Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #4

A large number of shorter reps interspaced with short Rest Intervals (RI) and then combined with longer sustained efforts are effective for building stamina and endurance. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their stamina and endurance.

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Run Session

Friday Fartlek Run – 4 sets 5x 30-20-10

This workout came from some research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology. The research showed that experienced runners improved their 5km time by 4% over 7 weeks. This session is great for runners from 5km to 10km, especially triathletes.

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