brain, a proper nutrition plan may take a back seat.But proper nutrition is central to your training and to race success. By fuelling correctly and ensuring you're hydrated before, during and after training, you will perform and feel better and still

training to learn effective transition skills and to be able to execute them at maximal efforts, so regular racing is always going to be one of the best ways to excel in transition.This brick session will build your fitness and dynamic ability across all

effect.Question timeTo help determine whether you are making the most of your time, ask yourself these questions next time you train:• Is this session going to improve a specific weakness? • Is this session specific to the race I am targeting

one-mile time trial, it’s a fun and attainable challenge to rise to. Best of all, you can train seriously enough to give it a good shot in just a month, leaving you ready for your next goal. A month’s training will have a significant effect on your

take your bike with you."Session 115 mins (at least) on the bike to the pool or swimming lake at warm-up pace.15-min swim at race pace: "But shake it up every now and then - go longer or shorter and vary the pace. Be creative with your training," says

If you’ve been training for weeks, you’ll want to make the last workout before your race count. Studies indicate the best way to prepare for a race is to reduce the volume of your running (mileage) while maintaining the intensity. These four

targets for a range of distances, pop a recent race time into our Training Pace Calculator. Speedwork Rules Remember these 10 tips when you start adding the fast stuff to your running programme. Your First Speed Sessions Ease into harder training

You've run countless miles, spent hours in the pool and pedalled until your bike feels like it's a part of your body, but unless you put yourself through some training sessions designed to help you hit your peak in time for race day, your efforts

than in our 40s – though sometimes it does happen – but we can aim to do the best we can with what we’ve got. However, I think that as you’ve only recently returned to serious marathon training, there’s no reason why another year of putting in good work

With three disciplines to consider, it's easy to make mistakes when you're eating and drinking during training and racing. That's the bad news. The good news is that it's easy to avoid triathlon's common nutritional pitfalls if you plan ahead