Lake McKenzie Saturday, June 4, 2011 10:00am-11:45am This open water swim clinic is the second installment of Centaur Subaru’s triathlon skill development series. This event will be useful for athletes of every level. All triathletes are invited to attend this free clinic put on by Jon Bird and Grant Burwash of Talisman Centre’s Endurance Training [...]
Try the new 2011 TYR Hurricane wetsuits. SpeedTheory will host a free wetsuit demo for our new line of TYR wetsuits at the Talisman Centre. We will have a full lineup of new TYR wetsuit, in all sizes, so you can give these excellent wetsuits a test run as you consider upgrading your suit for [...]
For everyone heading to Penticton for Ironman Canada on August 29th, we’ve made a list of (often forgotten) items that you will need before, during, and after the race. Please click on the list to download it.
By Dr. Trev Williams The Doctrine Training Method – Racing with a real life. I’ve been involved in competitive sport for more than half my life now. For me, some noticeable things have happened to the sport of cycling, running, and triathlon. No matter how awesome I think a bike looks one year, they just [...]
The new year has now rolled around and for many of us it is time to get back in the pool. Although swim workouts can be fun (especially if you are like me and have a great swim group of friends to swim with), getting up at 5:00am to swim in a cold pool is [...]
Email: Hi, I am a contributing editor to Triathlon Magazine Canada and I am doing a story on panic attacks and panic attack prevention. I was at your race last year watching my son and admired how well organized your event was. And Ghost Lake was so beautiful at 6 (yawn) a.m. Did you have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For this month we recommend that swim workouts include aerobic sessions (on easy days) and anaerobic threshold sessions on tougher days. We are including two aerobic and two anaerobic workouts below. Both are important, so try to fit them in. We are also recommending some optional swims – these are identified as swim choice workouts. [...]
