Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop the your familiarity both mentally and physically of transitioning from bike to run. This session from retired Ironman pro Heather Jackson is fantastic for building in fast running off the bike in preparation for an Ironman.
View More Monday’s Brick: Heather Jackson’s Ironman Brick
Combining both VO2 Max and Threshold intensities into a single session can help bring up your FTP relatively qwikly. This session gives you a bit of exposure to both intensities in a relatively short space of time and is a great session for all cyclists and triathlete who have limited time to train.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Half 10 MOP
The opening leg of an Ironman 70.3 is an important part of the event. If you swim well you can set yourself up for a good bike and run. Being able to swim efficiently and smoothly will enable you to stay fresh and get onto the bike in a good position. This series of workouts will set you up for success.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Ironman 70.3 Swim Success – Week 4
🚴♀️ The Olympic Tri Bike Advantage 🚴♂️
Focused Cycling & Brick Sessions to Sharpen Your Race Performance
Want to crush the bike leg of your next Olympic-distance triathlon and nail your brick runs? This 12-week cycling and brick-focused training plan is designed to give you a powerful edge on race day, allowing you to integrate your own swim and run training while maximizing your bike speed, endurance, and transition strength.
Spending time at an intensity you can sustain with a short Rest Interval (RI) can help develop your threshold capability. This workout takes things a bit further stepping the intensity up each set without out altering the Rest Interval (RI), making the workout progressively harder. This session is a great for all cyclists and triathlete who have limited time to train.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Half 45/15
This session sees a focus on sustaining your top end intensity over sets of 100m and 50m to develop your maximum aerobic capacity. This workout is of benefit to all swimmers (including triathletes and open water swimmers – especially short course triathletes).
View More Saturday Swim Session: Swim Speed Improver – Session 08
Meb Keflezighi is a legendary runner. On top of his marathon success, Meb has a Marathon PB of 2:08:37 and was the silver medalist at the 2004 Athens Men’s Olympic Marathon. He was also the winner of the 2009 New York City Marathon and the 2014 Boston Marathon. This workout targets slightly faster than race pace to your body is exposed to and can develop. Although this session targets marathon events specifically, it is also of benefit for runners and triathletes preparing for events from half marathon distance and above.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Modified Meb’s Marathon Session #1
This is a smarttrainer session that is great for developing your threshold power or intensity. It is perfect for triathletes (Olympic & Ironman 70.3 distance primarily), road cyclists, and mountain bikers alike.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: Mathew Riccatello’s Threshold B
The opening leg of an Ironman 70.3 is an important part of the event. If you swim well you can set yourself up for a good bike and run. Being able to swim efficiently and smoothly will enable you to stay fresh and get onto the bike in a good position. This series of workouts will set you up for success.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Ironman 70.3 Swim Success – Week 3
Tempo is an intensity that means different things to different athletes and coaches. For me, I define Tempo as an effort comfortably below the Threshold pace. It is the sort of intensity that if you had to you could maintain for a duration longer than a half marathon. It is higher than the aerobic running pace, sort of in the mid-zone between the two levels. Spending more than 15-20 minutes at this intensity, helps the body practice clearing the small amount of lactic acid generated at this pace, without needing to slow down to do so. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to full marathons and further.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Garmin Recommended Tempo Run #5