A real-world look at a first half ironman from an athlete balancing training with work and family life. This debrief explores pacing, fueling, mindset, and the lessons learned from getting to the finish line when things don’t go perfectly.
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Climb On [Lite] is a smart-trainer session designed to simulate rolling climbs with changing gradients. By alternating between steady efforts and over-under intensity, this workout builds strength, control, and endurance. Ideal for cyclists and triathletes, it develops the ability to stay smooth and efficient as effort rises and falls on the bike.
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The Endurance Benchmark session is a simple but powerful way to assess your swim fitness. A continuous time trial challenges your pacing, endurance, and mental focus. It’s an ideal session for swimmers and triathletes wanting to track progress, build confidence, and improve their ability to sustain effort over longer distances.
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This Friday Fartlek Run features **4×10-minute tempo intervals** designed to build aerobic strength and pacing discipline. Running at Level III with short recoveries, this session is ideal for runners and triathletes preparing for half marathons, marathons, and longer events, helping develop strong, sustainable race pace.
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This Rouvy Indoor Brick combines structured bike intervals with a progressive run that builds intensity step by step. Starting controlled and finishing strong, the session develops pacing accuracy, threshold strength, and confidence in race effort. Ideal for athletes wanting precise, distraction-free training that transfers directly to consistent triathlon performance.
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Dave Scott’s HIIT for the Holidays Minus is a dynamic smart-trainer session that challenges cadence control, power, and focus. With constant changes in intensity and position, this workout builds strength, speed, and resilience on the bike—ideal for cyclists and triathletes looking to improve coordination, efficiency, and race-ready fitness in a single session.
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Build your swim-specific strength with this Pull Strength Builder session. Using a pull buoy through the main set, this workout helps improve upper-body endurance, freestyle efficiency, and sustained form in the water. It’s a practical session for swimmers and triathletes wanting to become stronger, smoother, and more controlled.
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This Friday Fartlek Run features **5×2-minute VO₂ max intervals** designed to sharpen 5km speed and build aerobic power. Ideal for parkrunners wanting a simple, effective tune-up session, this workout helps improve running efficiency, lift top-end fitness, and boost confidence heading into your next hard parkrun effort.
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Warm-ups are one of the most overlooked tools in endurance sport. In this article, I explain why they matter, what they do to your body, and how to adapt your warm-up for running, triathlon, cycling, mountain biking, and longer events so you can start better and perform more smoothly.
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This FLJUGA Foundation Brick builds the basics of effective bike-to-run transitions. After a progressive ride moving from Level II to Level III, the session challenges you to settle quickly into a steady run rhythm. Simple in structure but highly effective, it develops pacing control, transition confidence, and durable triathlon race-day rhythm.
View More Monday’s Brick: FLJUGA Foundation Brick