Coach Gordo’s gTips: Tips for the Busy Triathlete
Have a written plan in advance of your sessions; make your training time effective. Train at the appropriate intensity for your session goals; it’s tempting to seek to increase benefits by increasing intensity – however, your physiology is not impacted by the number of weekly hours you have to train. Spend some time thinking about your true motivation for training. Things happen often at the wrong time, but if one accepts this fact of busy life, then it’s possible to deal with it. Let’s be positive: we are training everyday our mind to deal with race day surprises. I used to think that to get more training time in, I would have to be more selfish; but instead, when I began giving more to my wife, she in turn was more supportive of my pursuits and we have been able to work together to free up more time for training. Sure it’s better to train in race setup, but I can’t leave my bike in front of my workingplace so I will do some of my intensive sessions on an old city/mountainbike. In my experience, I have found that training with the basic week and repeating, has worked wonders for my consistency. If my busy life means I miss a session then I cross through it and get back on track with the rest of the weeks training, I’ve got far to frantic in the past trying to fit in the missed session later on in the week, and then cramming it in just to get it done and to make the training log look better !. As much as I do everything possible to minimize the impact my training time has on my family, I recognize that I’m still getting a tremendous amount of support from my wife.
The Right Stuff
After a stellar career in high school and college tennis, a busy married life with two young children, a newspaper column on fitness and a career in PR and advertising, a business as a certified personal trainer, and extensive volunteer work, Meredith Dolhare found herself sidelined with a second badly broken foot in 2007. Dolhare started spinning classes while she was still wearing a cast and competed in her first Iron Man in 2008. After spinal surgery in 2012, Dolhare returned to run a 100-kilometer race and a 135-mile race. She struggled with nausea – vomiting frequently during races when she ate solid food or too many calories. The next weekend, she finished a double marathon in San Francisco even faster, and she placed third among women in Badwater, where she took a bottle of The Right Stuff every 2½ hours. Months later, she finished the companion 508-mile Death Valley Cup – the sixth woman ever to complete both races in the same calendar year. Athletic participation is a longtime focus for Dolhare, who grew up in Memphis and was the 9th-ranked U.S. tennis player when she graduated from high school. After the NCAA tournament her senior year, she married Walter, a star tennis player at the University of Notre Dame who had gone into banking. The couple moved from Memphis to Charlotte soon after their first son was born, and she started volunteering and fundraising. In 2012, she founded RunningWorks, a non-profit running program that engages people in running to foster teamwork, discipline, confidence, self-respect, and respect for others.
Articles about Los Angeles Triathlon
SPORTS. Greg Bennett will start the Los Angeles Triathlon on Sunday with three victories in the event, more than the rest of the men’s field combined. The Australia native ranks fourth in the season-long Race to the Toyota Cup points standings and is behind two other competitors in the race: American Cameron Dye, who ranks second, and Filip Ospaly of the Czech Republic, who ranks third. SPORTS. For Julie Swail Ertel, who will be among competitors in Sunday’s Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Triathlon, it’s not so much a case of what she gained by competing in the Beijing Olympics. SPORTS. Craig Walton will try to complete a double-double of sorts when he competes in the fourth Los Angeles Triathlon on Sunday. The 27-year-old Australian won the Mrs. T’s Triathlon in Chicago for the second time in a row on Aug. 25 and is favored to win his second consecutive Los Angeles title. SPORTS. More than 3,300 athletes from 14 countries, 47 states and the District of Columbia are expected to compete today in the third Los Angeles Triathlon that begins at Venice Beach and ends at El Pueblo near Olvera Street. HEALTH. The triathlon season is year-round, with events every month. Here are some California triathlons happening in the next few months, from sprint to longer distances. Some may be sold out, but if you want to simply see what a triathlon is all about, there are plenty to check out. SPORTS. The wait was worth it for Craig Walton when it came to the third Los Angeles Triathlon on Sunday.
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