I realized my 50 mile/week running career was over. Now what? I was only 30 years old. I did what I could to stay active – switched to biking and swimming.

How familiar are you with the details of your stroke? Do you have ways, in the middle of a training set, perhaps while trying to keep up in a lane-circle, to keep your awareness acute?

By incorporating progressive, gradual, and quantifiable training, you will not only get faster, you will reduce your risk of injury.

Discussions on running muscle imbalance correction, water running, overdistance training, back-to-back Olys, maintenance plans and speed and common age-grouper mistakes.

Discussions on indoor bike workouts, IM fueling, coke or broth, bikes and swimming exercises.

March BeginnerTriathlete of the Month Interview with Mike Ricci

Interval training for weight loss. Weight training for weight loss. These interval workouts can be done in 15 to 20 minutes and have huge caloric expenditures for those who are crunched for time.

Making goals achievable is an important part of reaching our end goal. Also, having a bar that is set high is important, so we are always striving for something better.

Relaxing during the swim. Relaxing the muscles that you are not using is the topic of this month’s swimming tip.

It's funny, there are so many people who hate even the thought of running, or even of jogging slowly! I can't imagine my life without it.

Ever since I’ve started training for this triathlon, I’ve noticed some subtle differences between me and my friends who are actually VFT’s (Veterans of a Finished Triathlon).

I ponder my training. Should I have trained differently? Should I have trained more? Should I have trained harder? Should I not be wearing a sail?

Provided one was proficient in setting up the different functions of the Lap Track, I think that a short-course triathlete would benefit most from this, since it only records splits up to 50 laps.

Standing Twist w/ Dumbbell abdominal exercise instruction with picture and video.

Russian Twist abdominal exercise instruction with picture and video.