– the difficult one is swimming. In a race we cannot keep looking at our heart-rate monitor or stopwatch,” says Bill Black, who coached the GB Men’s Triathlon Team at the Sydney Olympics. “But if we train at a certain pace in the pool we can keep cross
identifies tangible achievements as those things that you have accomplished and that meant something to you - such as completing a triathlon under difficult circumstances, receiving a promotion, delivering a great presentation or meeting a particularly tight
running in my forties and ran the London Marathon five times, but then I became injured and was looking for something else," he says. "After the Blenheim Triathlon I was hooked."Dunbabin sets aside 6-10 hours per week for training, occasionally pushing
Picture the scene: after 10 hard years of racing and training, you make a triathlon breakthrough by qualifying for the ITU World Championships. You're one of the finest triathletes in the country, winning the right to join Team GB.So you fine
, and they all get so much from listening to each other; it's very motivational," he says.2. Go the extra mile If you haven't changed your race distance since you started triathlons, then the chances are your training hasn't change much, either. Even if you