This Friday Fartlek Run features 3×2-minute VO₂ max intervals at Level V+, designed to boost speed and aerobic power. With short recoveries, this quick, focused session is ideal for 5km and 10km runners and triathletes looking to sharpen high-intensity performance and add quality without overloading their training week.
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Thinking about your first half marathon? Tayla’s Christchurch Half Marathon journey shows what newer runners can learn from early race experiences. From building confidence to smarter pacing and race-day preparation, this article highlights why your first few half marathons are stepping stones to bigger goals and stronger performances.
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Want to run a faster half marathon? Learn practical lessons from Jess Bray’s New Zealand championship-winning performance. Discover how pacing, threshold fitness, endurance, and finishing strength can help you achieve your next personal best and race smarter over 21.1 kilometres with proven coaching strategies that work for everyday runners.
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Gordo Bryn’s Ironman Triple Brick is a progressive endurance challenge featuring three bike-run blocks that build in intensity. Starting controlled and finishing hard, it develops pacing judgment, durability, and mental resilience for long-course racing. A demanding session designed to improve your ability to perform strongly under accumulating fatigue.
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This is a short, sweet session that although lacking in some physiological considerations packs a lot of punch into the 30-minutes. It will build strength and power, with the limited time available. It is a great session regardless of your goals, but especially if you have limited time to train.
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Build sustainable swim speed with this threshold-focused session combining drill work and short-rest 50m reps. Improve technique, pacing, and consistency while learning to hold quality under fatigue. Ideal for triathletes and swimmers wanting stronger threshold pace, better rhythm, and greater endurance in the pool or open water.
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This Friday Fartlek Run features a **35-minute tempo effort** designed to build aerobic strength and sustained pace control. Running at Level III, this continuous session is ideal for runners and triathletes preparing for 10km, half marathon, marathon, and longer events, helping develop endurance and race-day confidence.
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Tayla’s Christchurch Half Marathon was more than a race result. As her second half marathon ever, it marked another step forward in confidence, pacing, and experience. This debrief explores why early races matter so much, and how each event helps build stronger, smarter, more resilient runners over time.
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Started too fast, missed race nutrition, and battled late. Jason’s Christchurch Half Marathon debrief reveals three common mistakes that cost runners time. Learn how smarter pacing, better fueling, and stronger race-day mindset can help you run a faster half marathon and unlock your next personal best performance.
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Jess Bray claimed her second straight New Zealand Under-20 Female Half Marathon title in Christchurch. This race debrief looks beyond the result, analysing pacing, late-race fatigue, courage, and the key lessons from a championship-winning performance that reveals both current strength and exciting future potential ahead.
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