The weekend is a opportunity to get a long ride completed. This ride is a challenging one that I get a range of my athletes who are…
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Category: Ironman Training
Articles that are of interest and benefit for people training for Ironman and half ironmans
Saturday Swim Session: Ironman Swim Test Set
Swimming this test set and comparing your times from amongst the various sets will give you an idea of how your fitness is developing if…
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: Progressive Run
This is a great way to incorporate some speed work into your long run and prepare you for some hard running at the end of…
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Friday Fartlek Run Session: McGregor and Fitzgerald’s Hill Reps
This is a great session that is effectively lactate intervals or speed intervals run uphill. As well as developing lactate tolerance, they also build run-specific strength.
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Wednesday Windtrainer Workout: Over/Unders
This is a great workout for developing threshold fitness and making you faster. This is ideal for roadies for a breakaway or in the chase. …
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Saturday Swim Session: Broken 400’s
This swim session will develop your swimming stamina which is important for triathlons and open water swimming. Swim stamina is the ability to maintain your effort…
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Friday Fartlek Run: World Record Kilometres
Khalid Khannouchi used this session as he built up to setting the world marathon record. This session will be great to use as you prepare…
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Saturday Swim Session: 500’s, 400’s or 300’s
These sessions will develop your aerobic swimming endurance. This will assist with building a base that will make you fitter and more efficient.
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Saturday Swim Session: Threshold 100’s
These sessions will develop your sustained threshold speed. Get good at these workouts and you will find yourself swimming faster in a few weeks’ time.
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What Mick Learned By Not Sticking To The Programme
I’m going to tell you a story about Mick* (not their real name). He is a hard working athlete preparing for an Ironman race. He…
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