Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for triathlons
Meb Keflezighi is a legendary runner. On top of his marathon success Meb has a 5,000m PB of 13:11.77. This workout has a variety of speeds to build not only speed but also endurance, teaching the body to build pace throughout the workout and then repeat it after a short break. This session is great for runners up to 5km, as well as triathletes.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Meb’s 5km Session #3
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session build your pace 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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 2
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.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Build Run A
Sprints are a great way to build leg strength and power generation. This is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: UltraFit’s Sprints B
Spending time focusing on your technique and enhancing specific aspects of your stroke will allow you to swim faster for the same energy expenditure, or swim at your normal pace for less energy expenditure. This will allow you to finish the swim fresher for the remaining legs of the triathlon. This is a great session for triathletes and open water swimmers to do to build their sustained speed.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Marc Evans’ Recreational Ironman Athlete Workout #8
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: Meb’s Marathon Session #2
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. Completing this session intelligently will see great improvements in your fitness. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Jesper Medhus’ VO2 Max Booster
Endurance is a critical component of fitness for triathletes and long distance open water swimmers. The reps within this session build your pace 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.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Hansen & Hansen’s Distance Free 1
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 from 10km through to a marathon to develop tolerance to lactic acid.
View More Friday Fartlek Run – Scott Defilippis’ 70.3 Fartlek B
Sprints are a great way to build leg strength and power generation. This session is great for triathletes, road cyclists, and mountain bikers.
View More Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: UltraFit’s Sprints A