Many NZ triathletes have been training all winter for the ITU World Champs Beijing in September. Here is a pre-race checklist that covers just about everything that you will need for transitions, in addition to some tricks of the trade.It also is handy to use for any races you plan on doing from Sprint to Ironman – some rules may mean that bikes will be racked the night before race day and not allowed to do a [...]

2k swim, 90k bike, 21k run Well the basics are like what Arthur Lydiard devised in the 50s and 60s to produce multiple gold medalists and world record holders in the form of Snell, Halberg, Magee and Baillie etc etc…. What you need to do is to build up the stamina and strength to complete the distances. And remember it is a triathlon, not a swim race, bike race or run race. If you have [...]

Beginner triathletes and often more experienced age groupers and even the pros often ask this question and get it wrong. What most people forget is a swim-bike-run and your overall time is more important than individual split times. For the beginner triathlete it is more than likely that you are going to be on the race course for anywhere from 4.5hrs to 7hrs, so it’s definitely not a high intensity effort. The Swim So you [...]

This is a post by Scott about his race at IMNZ last week. His very first Ironman and he did awesome! 9 hours 14mins 57seconds and is off to Kona Ironman World Championships! You can see all the 2011 Kona qualifiers here Pre-race Up at 4:30 for breakfast 4 pieces of toast, peanut butter and jam. Mmmm Coffee (first in two weeks), this felt great and straight away got me focused. I arrived at transition [...]