Robyn Williams

Robyn Finds Inspiration At Tarawera

The Tawarewa Ultra 21km is a trail run from the Blue lake reserve, through the Redwoods, along steamy, sulphur trails and finishes on the lakefront in Rotorua. It is a pretty challenging course with an elevation gain of 734m. I decided that it would be a good training run for me to build some strength, leading into the Hawkes Bay Marathon in May.

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Tri Swim Coach

Saturday Swim Session: Kick, Pull & Swim, What Duncan Laing Taught Me

Duncan Laing, arguably New Zealand’s most successful swim coach. I had the privilege of swimming under him in the mid 90’s, as part of his triathlon squad. One of his favourite sets was KPS or Kick Pull Swim. This session is focused around that and is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes as well as people doing longer ocean swims.

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Run Fartlek

Friday Fartlek Run: The Running Channel’s Sub-20min 5km Session A

Running at race pace provides a training stimulus that allows your body to get accustomed to that intensity. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events between 5km & 10km.

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Windtrainer Session

Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: GCN’s Medium, Sharp, Aganosing, Explosive Efforts

This is a great workout for developing your leg power and VO2 max. This is perfect for road cyclists as well as triathletes and mountain bikers.

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Gene’s Ironman Journey: From Zero to Hero

12 months ago I decide to do an Ironman, the problem was, I couldn’t swim and didn’t own a bike. How hard can it really be? Initially, I decide to train myself, I jumped on the internet and downloaded a plan…easy as!
About two weeks in to “coaching” myself I realised there was more to it than just swimming, biking and running a few times randomly throughout a week. It was time to consult a professional.
I contacted Ray who had been recommended to me by a friend, this is when things really started to take shape.

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Tri Swim Coach

Saturday Swim Session: Sprints for Speed

Swimming short reps with a good rest can develop your speed and swimming them with short rests can develop your endurance. Put lots together within the one workout with a mixture of rest and you can develop speed, endurance and speed endurance. This session is perfect for Ironman and Olympic distance triathletes or people doing longer Ocean Swims.

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Fartlek Workout

Friday Fartlek Run: Marek’s Multi-Pace Session

Running at race pace provides a training stimulus that allows your body to get accustomed to that intensity. Marek does that in this session with a variety of paces to provide your body with a range of training stimuli. This is a perfect session for runners and triathletes running events up to and over the full Marathon in distance.

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