Kevin Cutjar is a former Pro triathlete who began racing in 1990, in his home country of Australia. Throughout the last 20 years he’s completed well over 200 endurance events, including 32 Ironman races, around the world. His personal best Ironman times are 8:46 in Florida (’03) and Ironman Canada PB 8:48 (’05). The one [...]
The focus for March is Motivation. So we have tried to add some interesting workouts to the schedule. We also want to ensure you are getting adequate recovery and not getting burnt out from these sessions. If you are feeling tired or bored, we suggest you take one weekend this month TOTALLY OFF or just [...]
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 [...]
By Kyle Marcotte Little things that make you faster on the run, that don’t require (that much) training. Speed laces: Speed laces such as Yankz will take MINUTES off your race. This replaces hundreds of hours pounding on the pavement to improve a couple of minutes. Baby powder or Vaseline: Pre-loading your running shoes with [...]
Off Season and Pre Season Tips For Triathletes By: Calvin Zaryski coachcal@criticalspeed.com Now that the 2010 triathlon season is approaching fast, it is time to evaluate your success based on goals made early last year. For most of us, we want to be faster and clean up the mistakes made either in training or in [...]
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 [...]
Gearing up for Calgary Ironman 70.3 By Lisa Mensink- Professional Triathlete & Olympian December 2009: Winter Training Tips This season I’m going to focus on some tips & tricks to prepare you for the 2nd Ironman 70.3 Calgary in August 2010! With winter in full swing its sometimes hard to get focused on [...]
OFF SEASON WEIGHT GAIN You can find hundreds of articles online or in magazines on how to avoid the off season weight gain. This post will address none of that and instead focus on how to gain mass during the off season. Here are some simple rules on how to increase your off season weight. [...]
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 [...]
The 70.3 World Championships – Kyle Marcotte, Pro Ironman The 70.3 Half-Ironman World Championships are taking place this weekend (November 14th) in Clearwater Florida. Fifty athletes who raced in the Calgary 70.3 race have qualified for the world championships (See the list of who qualified). At least one Clearwater slot was allocated for each age-group [...]
