Thank you for the tremendous support for our inaugrual event. Viterra Ironman 70.3 Calgary is now sold out for 2009 for Age-Group Athletes. We do have 10 charity spots left to support the Jason Lapierre Memorial Scholarship – at the same price! We also still have spots left for AWAD and Pro Athletes. Registration will [...]
Women’s Race will be Hotly Contested! With the likes of Mirinda Carfrae, Lisa Bentley, Catriona Morrison, Lisa Mensink and Heather Gollink the women’s field of the Viterra Ironman 70.3 Calgary will be a hotly contested race! Lisa Bentley, 11 time Ironman Champion, is the most experienced and winning female Ironman pro in the women’s field. [...]
ALREADY WARM ENOUGH TO SWIM IN My fellow race organizer (Dan Ouimet) and I went outon course to film some footage for the race briefing last Sunday. We met up with a couple from Edmonton who are doing the race and had come down for the weekend to swim, bike and run the Viterra Ironman [...]
The All Important Taper Leading up to a race, it is easy to start second guessing yourself and start doubting whether or not you’ve done enough training. If you are an ironman pro or new to the sport, we’ve all second guessed our training leading into a race. Truth be told, it is usually better [...]
Cold Water Swimming With colder water temperatures, many athletes have problems with facial immersion causing perceived shortness of breath, especially below 65°F. At first, it can be a shock to your system that can lead to hyperventilating or a panicked feeling. I remember the first time this happened to me, I found it very surprising [...]
Fueling before the race Generally speaking, food and swimming often are at odds with one another. Swimming with a belly of full of food often leads to nausea and/or difficulty breathing (as the pressure of food in the stomach can push on the diaphram). Slow breakdown of food can particularly become an issue when pre-race [...]
Run Interval #1 Warm-up: 15-20 mins easy 6xstrides Main-set: 6x3mins (2 mins recovery) Cool-down: 20 mins easy Run Intervals #2 Warm-up: 15-20 mins easy 6xstrides Main-set: 4x5mins (2 mins recovery) Cool-down: 20 mins easy
The example workouts are even shorter intervals with even higher intensity. ———————————————————– Example Workout #1 Warm up Warm-up riding to the bottom of a short steep hill in the small ring and going very easy with only one or two 1 – 2min pickups; still in the small ring. Arive at the hill sweating, but [...]
Aerobic 1 Warm-up: 10×100 (2 swim, 2 pull, 1 kick) with 10-15 sec rest Main: 8×200 @80% on 20 sec rest cool down: 500 mixed Aerobic 2 Warm-up: 800 choice (pull and swim) Main set: 8×50 Hard on 20 sec rest 6×300 on 30 sec rest mod to hard 8×50 All out on 30 sec [...]
