If you create a well laid out plan toward your season goals and stick to it, you will give yourself the best chance of success. While triathlon is recreation for most, there’s an underlying desire in everyone, to keep improving. With the race season fast approaching, you may be looking at race options that sound [...]
Gearing Up for Calgary Ironman 70.3 By Lisa Mensink-Professional Triathlete & Olympian April 2010: Tips & Tricks Running Faster! I used to run all my runs at the same pace. Basically I would head out at lunchtime and hit the Calgary pathway system. I had a few different routes to choose from but limited time, [...]
Chris Thomas was the top age-grouper at the inaugural Calgary 70.3 Half Ironman. Chris was recently elected the 2009 USA Triathlon’s Age Group Athlete of the Year. PB: Chris, thanks for doing this interview. For our readers, please tell us a little about your athletic background. I was one of those kids that had a [...]
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 [...]
April is the start of more specific triathlon training. The changes are subtle because we want you to ease into it. April is not the time to shock your body and risk injury! You will see that we have removed the cross training options on the weekend, not because these sessions aren’t valuable, but because [...]
It is important to mix up your swim workouts in order to get the variety of speed, endurance and power work that is required for our demanding sport. This month we provide three powerful swim workouts one is pretty easy, one is speedy and the third focuses on endurance. Easier Workout Warm-up 300 easy [...]
This month is much of the same – a focus on sprinting (to build your strength and speed) and a big gear session to teach your body to push a sustained tension over a longer period of time (excellent for time trialing). The same rules apply as last month and these are laid out in Trev’s [...]
Question: I just found out that I can’t race in August (due to injury, illness, famly commitments – pick one). What is the refund policy? Answer: The race policy is a $75 refund prior to June 1st. After June 1st there is no refund. Roll-overs to future years or transfers to other athletes are not [...]
Pick up the Tempo One of the biggest mistakes I see Ironman athletes make time and time again is focusing too much on the distance and forgetting about speed. There is an adage that many slow runs make for many slow runners. And many triathletes are not limited by fitness, they are limited by a [...]
Lisa’s Top 5 training spots in Kona, Hawaii I am currently hiding out in Kona, Hawaii from all the snow and un-spring like weather back home. So this month’s top 5 is all about Kona. After racing the Calgary 70.3 in August, some of you may want to go further and race a full [...]
