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Anyone Can do an Ironman

In General Triathlon of TTC (March 18, 2009 9:28 pm)

Last night I made a presentation to a group of MBA students using the title above. It’s a rather outlandish statement to make to anyone outside of “triathlonworld” where most of us live. Of the 30 people present 16 of them initially thought that they could never manage an event of this magnitude.
Actually the main [...]

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Norseman 2009 – February update

In Norseman triathlon, Simon Ward, Training of TTC ( 9:12 pm)

One of the basic principles of a training programme is to have progressive overload - small regular increases in the training load (frequency, duration, intensity) so that the body is constantly having to adapt (another training principle) and grow stronger.
On that basis, February was a good month. I still had to contend with working 3 weekends out of 4 [...]

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TCR 2009

In General Triathlon, Simon Ward, Training of TTC (March 5, 2009 10:44 am)

2 weeks ago and we were at the annual triathlon show at Sandown Park – TCR09. We presented a series of seminars in the Gatorade sponsored theatre with a host of triathlon (and non triathlon) stars. Those present included Ali & Johnny Brownlee, Olympic Kayak Gold Medallist Tim Brabants, 9 time GB triathlon Champion Richard [...]

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