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2017

QOTW: How Should I Use My Heart Race and Pace Zones in The Heat of Summer

Unless you’ve taken a running hiatus, you’ve noticed that it’s summertime, it’s hot, and running is lot tougher right now at a given pace! If you’ve set your running heart rate and pace zones in the past then read on. If not, visit Joe Friel’s Lactic Threshold Heart Rate primer and make sure you’re using accurate Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 2 years2 years ago
2018

Improve Your Run for Tri Season!

Looking to get to T3 a little quicker this year? Perhaps you’ve hit a plateau, or feel like there’s a missing ingredient in your approach. When manipulating the basic ingredients, or tenets of training- volume, frequency, intensity and duration, there are literally thousands of different combinations. If your running is Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 3 years3 years ago
2017

QOTW: How Can I Estimate Watts Used to Achieve a Certain Speed?

This week’s QOTW comes to us from Reddit. User juderm asks the question below:   If I stayed the same weight can I get a rough estimate of watts needed to achieve a certain speed this way? Stats from weekend race: Average power: 244 19.25 MPH 244 watts/19.25 mph = Equal to 12.6 watts Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
2017

Energy Lab Advanced: Should I Use AP, NP, or HR to Pace IRONMAN Races?

This question was recently asked in the USA Triathlon coaches forum. “Avg. Pwr or Normalized Pwr? 140.6 and 70.3 races and training. I’ve been using NP for the last 4 years and have had a tremendous amount of success but have been seeing the trend move over to Avg. Power. Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
2017

QOTW: How Should I Use My Heart Race and Pace Zones in The Heat of Summer

Unless you’ve taken a running hiatus, you’ve noticed that it’s summertime, it’s hot, and running is lot tougher right now at a given pace! If you’ve set your running heart rate and pace zones in the past then read on. If not, visit Joe Friel’s Lactic Threshold Heart Rate primer and make sure you’re using accurate Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
2017

Training Metrics: What Should You Track?

In part one of these series we discussed what’s generally important when tracking training data. Here we explore the most important training data to track in each sport.   Which Metrics Matter in Each Sport?   Which ones matter and which ones are just extra noise? Here’s what to track Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
2017

Energy Lab Advanced: How to Win the Race on The Swim

Triathletes typically love or hate the swim. Because swimming is so technique driven and an early adoption sport “adult onset swimmers” are disadvantaged from the start. Rarely are late onset swimmers able to rise to level of even an average swim team kid.   The good news for the adult onset swimmers Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
Coach Blog

Should I Buy A Road Bike?

Thinking about adding a road bike to your arsenal? Wondering if it’s worth it? Triathlete Magazine recently posted last year’s article, “Why Triathletes Should Consider Buying A Road Bike.” In this article, we explored six ways a road bike can help you. For many years, I only had a tri Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
2017

Energy Lab Advanced: How to bike faster outside and inside

In a recently reposted Triathlete Mag article, I explored the idea of going faster (outside) on the bike with less effort. Specifically, we looked at the effects of power, weight, and aerodynamics and how each factor contributes to speed. You can read an excerpt and link over below: What is a realistic way Read more…

By Bethany Rutledge, 4 years4 years ago
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