Fresh and full of colours, this is the perfect compliment for a lamb or pork dish.
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Brick sessions are a great training session to help develop your familiarity both mentally and physically of transitioning from bike to run. This session is fantastic for developing fast running off the bike in preparation for an Olympic distance triathlons (as well as Sprint distance triathlons).
View More Monday’s Brick: Sundried Olympic Brick
This session is a great way to develop your ability to clear lactic acid, especially if short on time. Suitable for road cyclists and also triathletes and mountain bikers. This session can be done on the road as well. An undulating course is perfect if not doing it on the smart trainer.
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This session is used to assess your current swimming ability and set a benchmark time for future workouts. There are other methods for setting benchmark times and assessing ability but I use these workouts as an alternative for athletes that haven’t done much swimming lately.
View More Saturday Swim Session: T-Times for Beginners
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: Phil Mosley’s Tempo Run D
Utilising Apricot and Pine Nut Stuffing, this chicken was fantastic. So easy to make so successfully.
View More Chef Ray: Picnic Roast Chicken
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 typically maintained during fast Ironman 70.3 events. It is higher than the aerobic effort of long steady workouts, sort of in the mid-zone between the aerobic and threshold efforts. 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 triathletes competing in Ironman and Ironman 70.3 distance events.
View More Monday’s Brick: Coach Ray’s Ironman 70.3 Tempo Brick #2
I wanted a workout for an athlete of mine that tested their legs whilst fatigued. With only an hour available, I needed to get their fatigue levels relatively high, relatively qwikly prior to the set of threshold intervals. This is a modification of what I developed. Although I used RAMP Test in the title for the workout, it’s not a true RAMP test and we restrict the maximum intensity to allow you the opportunity to complete the threshold intervals. This session is great for triathletes, and road cyclists. It can also be beneficial for mountain bikers, especially for events that are about an hour in duration such as a 40km Time Trial or the bike leg of an Olympic Distance Triathlon.
View More Sunday Smart-Trainer Session: RAMP Test Threshold Session #2
This session develops your ability to both judge pace and also manage that pace with a range of various speeds incorporated within the session. As a result of this variety of pace you will improve both your Threshold speed and also your VO2 max. This session will benefit triathletes of all distances, as well as other open-water swimmers.
View More Saturday Swim Session: Tour de Cure Session 7
This session is a great way to enhance your power and leg strength from running 5 km through to the half marathon. Sisyphus was a greedy and deceitful Greek king who got sentenced to roll a boulder up a hill, to then watch it roll back down before repeating again until eternity. This session is a bit like that, but it doesn’t go on to eternity.
View More Friday Fartlek Session: Double Sisyphus Minus