Many runners feel strong during the first half of a marathon, but the real challenge begins after 30 kilometres. Learn why marathon training focuses on endurance, consistency, and patience, and discover how preparing for the final 12 kilometres can help you achieve a stronger finish on race day.
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Life rarely follows your training plan perfectly. Learn Coach Ray’s five simple rules for adjusting workouts when work, family, travel, and other commitments get in the way. Discover how to stay consistent, avoid common mistakes, and continue making progress toward your endurance sport goals.
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Strength training has become increasingly popular among endurance athletes, but is it always necessary? Discover when strength training can improve performance, when aerobic development should take priority, and how recreational athletes can make the best use of limited training time while balancing performance, injury prevention, and long-term health.
View More Do Endurance Athletes Really Need Strength Training?
Fitness alone does not guarantee your best race. Smart pacing is often the difference between fading badly and finishing strong. Learn how to pace correctly from 5K to Ironman to ultra, avoid common mistakes, and turn your training into better race-day performances with practical strategies that actually work.
View More The Art of Pacing: How to Race Smarter From 5K to Ironman to Ultra
This FLJUGA Foundation Brick builds the basics of effective bike-to-run transitions. After a progressive ride moving from Level II to Level III, the session challenges you to settle quickly into a steady run rhythm. Simple in structure but highly effective, it develops pacing control, transition confidence, and durable triathlon race-day rhythm.
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Tempo training sits in the “comfortably uncomfortable” zone — and it’s where most endurance races are actually won.
Too many athletes train either too easy or too hard, missing the intensity that builds sustainable speed, aerobic strength, and race-day confidence. In this article, Coach Ray explains what tempo training really is, why it matters for triathletes, runners, and cyclists, and how mastering this middle ground leads to smarter pacing and stronger finishes.
Raise your triathlon fitness with Coach Ray’s Ironman 70.3 Threshold Brick session. This structured bike-to-run workout uses threshold intensity to improve efficiency, durability, and race-day performance for Ironman and Ironman 70.3 athletes.
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Christmas doesn’t have to mean losing fitness or starting the New Year behind. Learn how runners, triathletes, and cyclists can train smart through the festive period by prioritising what matters, using short quality sessions, protecting recovery, and staying flexible — so you arrive in January fit, fresh, and motivated.
View More Training Through Christmas: How to Stay Fit Without Missing the Festivities
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure and persistence. … Sometimes, you wonder whether the training is actually working. All the…
View More Ali’s Adventure – Persistence And Dedication Pays Off