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
.If you find the artificial fruit flavours and syrupy sweetness of other isotonic drinks cloying and hard to stomach, ZICO coconut water offers a refreshing, light and clean-tasting alternative.After an intense training session, you might want a recovery
find that this type of training is extremely beneficial and good fun.Ensure you follow a hard day of training with two easy days to allow your body to adapt.Q. In October I’m attempting two half-marathons, the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon
as practised in training. Try to use the sports drinks in training before race day, as unfamiliar drinks could upset your stomach when you're running hard.Don't get carried away by the crowd and other fast starters, run your planned pace. Those who start too
.I put off training for a bit, and with only a month to go until the race, I finally made my way to my local pool and plunged straight into the fast lane. After two lengths, I was left gasping for air. When did swimming become so hard? I managed 16
Natural Hero Hot Ginger Muscle Rub, £9.95 (100ml)Cedric says: Triathlon tends to attract people who find it hard to sit still. If that sounds familiar, next time your tired muscles complain that they need some TLC, reach for Natural Hero’s Hot
.Technology hasn’t made me a faster runner. The running blades I run on now are the same ones I ran the marathon in 5:19 on back in 2004. The harder I train, the faster I run.The disadvantages with blades is that it’s hard to generate the same amount of power
collection.The Hard YardsRewind to a blustery August day at the University of Bath Performance Centre, and he’s a different man. It’s three weeks before the World Champs, and victory is far from guaranteed. He warms up trackside, quiet and focused. He
this summer.Lynn joined us to answer your nutrition posers to get you on the right track this season. Read the whole forum debateQ. I find when I've had a particularly hard training session the previous evening, I feel a lot hungrier than usual the next day
. Training for the event alone is a mission and conditions at Kona always make for an unpredictable and edge-of-the-seat race.Ones to watchThe women: High drama is promised in the women’s race as 2011 winner and world record holder Chrissie Wellington takes a
