Tip’s For First Timer’s Doing The Marlborough Woman’s Triathlon
With the Marlborough Woman’s Triathlon this weekend, I thought I’d put together some tips for some common questions. If you are a first timer and have a question not covered here, please reach out on Facebook with your question and I’ll update this article with an answer. If you’ve done the Marlborough Woman’s Triathlon before and have a tip to share, also touch base on Facebook and I’ll include your tip for the benefit of others.
The Top 10 Training Articles on www.CoachRay.nz for 2017
What are the most popular articles on www.CoachRay.nz as decided by you the reader for 2017? Read on to find out.
Saturday Swim Session: Swim Golf
Swim Golf is a style of workout that you can use to enhance your efficiency and technique swimming. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
Saturday Swim Session: Hand Paddles
These sessions develop your swimming specific strength, that will enable you to develop more power in your stroke. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
Friday Fartlek Run: Greg McMillan’s Best Fartlek Workout 4
This session is a great way to increase your lactate threshold. Use this session and the workouts published in the month of March to prepare yourself for some more focused speed work as you prepare for your race.
Week 10: McFadden McMeeken Phillips Lawyers Nelson Women’s Triathlon Training Programme
I’ve prepared a twelve week training programme to prepare you for the McFadden McMeeken Phillips Lawyers Nelson Women’s Triathlon. Each Thursday I will post it here for you to follow along with. This programme started on Monday 23 January 2017. The previous…
Saturday Swim Session: Enhancing Feel For The Water with IM
By including the other strokes in your training you can enhance your feel for the water and develop improved freestyle/front crawl technique as a result. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.
Friday Fartlek Run: Greg McMillan’s Best Fartlek Workout 3
This session is a great way to improve your VO2 Max. Use this session and the workouts published in the month of March to prepare yourself for some more focused speed work as you prepare for your race.
Week 9: McFadden McMeeken Phillips Lawyers Nelson Women’s Triathlon Training Programme
I’ve prepared a twelve week training programme to prepare you for the McFadden McMeeken Phillips Lawyers Nelson Women’s Triathlon. Each Thursday I will post it here for you to follow along with.
Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: 20/15/10/5min
This session is a great way to develop your threshold speed and is perfect for road cyclists, short course triathletes and mountain bikers.
1 month ago
#dontgiveup #onwardsandupwards some apt advice in @gozwift @gozwiftausnz for tonight’s ride through the French country side. 🚴♂️ #coachray #qwikkiwi- 1 month ago
I noticed a few trees in blossom during this morning's "not a parkrun run". How did the run feel? Good - 1 month ago
Good session on @gozwift this evening. First time up #boxhill and that false summit is a killer 🤣 🚴♂️ @gozwiftausnz - 1 month ago
Some more quality time on @gozwift @gozwiftausnz whilst finishing watching @superleaguetriathlon #amsterdam 🚴♂️🏃♂️🏊♂️ #coachray #QwikKiwi - 4 weeks ago
Great view of an Austrian sunset tonight in Innsbruck in @gozwift @gozwiftausnz then a view of the Alps in the - 1 month ago
Lazy 20km through Paris on @gozwift @gozwiftausnz this evening 🗼🚴♂️ #QwikKiwi #coachray - 1 month ago
A beautiful sunny ☀️ day to go for 11km on the #westcoastwildernesstrail my @garminnz told me my performance was improving - 3 weeks ago
Squeezed in a run today. I was grateful for the wind to keep me cool, but on the last 2 - 3 weeks ago
@matt_reido challenged me to a 1.5 mile TT to see how much I can hurt no one on the road - 3 weeks ago
Joined the Surf Life Saving Club for some training tonight. Great to be pushed with some intensity in the session.
8 week Spin Fitness Training Plan
This is a great training plan to build your cycling fitness over 8 weeks. Whether you are a road cyclist, mountain biker, Zwift or Peloton user or wanting to use a spin bike for general fitness.
Whether you want to improve your fitness during COVID lockdown or the Southern Hemisphere winter; the 8 week Spin Fitness Training Plans will help you take your fitness level to new heights.
There are a number of options for these Training Plans within the training spectrum depending on how long and the frequency of your normally rides.
Options based on how long you currently ride for:
- less than 30 minutes,
- 30-40 minutes,
- 40-50 minutes,
- 50-60 minutes, or
- more than an hour.
As well as options for riding 3, 4, 5 or in some cases 6 times per week, to optimise your fitness over the next 8 weeks.
After you've completed this 8 week block you can adapt to a more specific plan to target a specific event or specific goal.