TheTriGuy's blog

Here's an interesting examination of the triathlon swim.

Adam Radford at Trizone wrote a pretty interesting piece on analyzing your race performance.  Not clear 100% what he is recomending, but certainly worth a look.

Found this post on The Nation's Triathlon blog.  We all get the winter Bluess, here's some tips to beat them.

Here's a great article on found on seven easy ways to inmprove your freestyle.

By: Sarah McLarty

Using visualization seems to be a common practice among elite athletes.  It's never really been clear to me why it works (or if it works), but based on the anecdotal evidence of so many greats, it is hard to ignore.

We received an email the other day from gentlemen who took a pretty good spill on his bike.  Stitches, bruising, the whole nine yards.  It reminds us that traveling as fast as a car, on skinny little tires, in pack of other riders, with bad road conditions...can be hazardous.

I thought this was a good article on one injury that we hear a lot about in biking.

Here's a clip from the article.

I wonder why the pros haven't used my new aero technique???

This is a picture we grabbed from an old high school friend's facebook page.  It looks pretty efficient!

Keeping a training diary helps athletes build confidence and stave off threats to performance: burnout, injury, illness, and overtraining. This simple, comprehensive diary makes it easy to record every component of triathlon workouts. Details of each swim, bike, run, crosstraining, or strength workout can be entered, with ample space for notes on the route or other variables.

Thought this was a an interesting example of different training philosophies.  One thing is for sure, in the world of swimming, there may never be agreement on the question of "How Much"

I really like this article by Sarah McLarty at Competitor.com.  She does a nice job breaking down freestyle for beginner swimmers and triathletes.  I especially enjoyed her opening line,

By G. John Mullen