I must admit that I was a slow adopter of Strava. At first I saw it as just another social media app, but aimed at endurance sports people. Having enough trouble keeping up with the more mainstream social media apps, I didn’t think it was for me. Then I...
Most of us use a heart rate monitor to control our training output and to ensure we are making the most of the time we have to run. Aiming our sessions at the correct levels ensures that we are training optimally and will ensure that we continue to progress...
"Motivation is not a tank that needs to be filled. It is a fuel that needs to be ignited." We don't need to find motivation, we can create it with discipline and determination. Lockdown has been tough on everybody for so many reasons. As endurance athletes we have had to...
Apologies for the 'gym vernacular' but I think it fits here. As triathletes we focus on freestyle or front-crawl because it is the fastest and most efficient way for us to get through the swim and onto dry land again. Most triathletes tend not to come from a swimming...
Even if we hadn’t all been forced to ride our bikes on the spot as we have in 2020, most of us would still have hidden from the chilly temperatures and dark mornings of Winter by spending quality time on the indoor bike. As the social distancing regulations ease...
The Hamster Wheel - Normally I do my track or speedwork on a grass field because the nearest tartan track is a fairly long drive away. We have recently had a lot of rain and this would have resulted in my critical weekly session looking more like something out...
"Coach I'm sick!" Never words I like to read but the law of averages dictates that we will, inevitably fall ill and miss a few days training at times. After the crazy year that we have been living through most of us have started hammering the training again now...
“How much more do I need to train for a full iron-distance race compared to what I have done for a half?” This is a question I, and I am sure every coach, gets asked on a regular basis. I must admit that I find it quite difficult to...
What a strange year we are having. During hard lockdown cyclists and triathletes were forced to do all their training indoors. Now that the restrictions have relaxed we can all return to our training roads and trails but many have formed such strong habits on the indoor trainer that...
One of the least affected sporting disciplines during the lockdown restrictions was cycling. The development and proliferation of online training applications allowed cyclists to log great training hours in a virtual world. Zwift is the most popular of these apps with thousands of kilometres of virtual roads on which...
