with essential nutrition advice on how to fuel and hydrate effectively to ensure you have enough energy to train hard and recover rapidly. We know that open-water swimming can be a terrifying part of triathlon, no matter how experienced you are, so we’ve put
’t doing speed work though. He’s still recovering from the race 10 days ago and opts instead to hit the gym at the High Altitude Training Centre where we’re staying, and where Mo Farah and Paula Radcliffe come to train when they’re in Kenya. Wilson spends
, and three long rides a week up to four hours. The Team Dillon squad trains and travels together, which is great for performance and moral. Is it hard to eat well when you’re travelling to races?It can be tricky. In a city like Sydney it’s easy to eat basic
It’s Monday morning at 5:30am. Today is considered an easy day on the Kenyan training schedule so we go for a gentle run from the High Altitude Training Camp down to the Kamariny Stadium. The track’s deserted because it’s raining but we decide to do
or heading out to visit friends instead of training twice a day.After our run, we head out too. We’re going to visit another famous training camp in the area: Kipchoge Keino’s High Performance Training Centre in Eldoret. When we arrive at the camp, coach
it's cooler. Some of the age groupers look fitter than the pros - it's hard to tell who's who. Some people find it hard to back off their training, even the day before the big day. I try to keep the intensity up but the volume a lot less in the week
himself a running club, and, in Ollie Wright, a coach, and discovered that he was more than competitive. A few months saw him change from recreational runner into a hard-core track athlete training twice a day.He’s convinced his late start has been a
GETTY IMAGES The possibility of shaving a few seconds off a personal best, or running further than we ever thought we could, can lead us towards ever more inventive ways to train. But what
with freeze-dried food at breakfast and dinner. I tried not to cross the fine line between training hard and becoming injured. I also tried to simulate the conditions I'd face in the desert, but it's hard to train for sand dunes and 40+ degree heat in central
Hills are hard. That's why many of us run or ride around - rather than over - them in training. You might even choose races that are flat in an effort to keep your hill time to a minimum. But the truth is tackling hills will make you a stronger
