This year’s A-race was this weekend: The U.S Age Group Nationals. Its a race I have been preparing for all year and I have spent 9-10 training sessions pr week for the last 16 weeks on (A nice, big “Thank You” to my wife is due) I have already done 3 sprints and 1 Olympic triathlon this year and in these smaller local races I have done pretty well with an age group win and 2 top-3 results in the … →

This is the second installment in my evaluation of NJ State triathlon and preparation for the US age group nationals coming up in a few days. The first post was about the nutrition and can be found here. This post will be looking at the conclusions from a bike threshold test that I did together with my Coach Chris Draper. But first a recap of my bike stats from the NJ State Tri: Distance: 41.04 km Time: 1:06:58 Avg Speed: … →

After my last olympic race in July I have spent a bit of time evaluating my race. As you can see from my race report I don’t have the best of runs and in order to try and better this I talked to my coach abouth my race nutrition and I also did a threshold test on the bike in order to get a better understanding of what my effort should be on the bike. I will keep to the … →

As a part of my build-up to my main A-race in August, I participated in the New Jersey State Triathlon. I also did the race last year, but this year I upped the ante doing my first Olympic distance. The build up had been so-so, having spent 3 weeks vacationing in Denmark and only following my training schedule sporadically. I had also felt a bit of burn-out during the last couple of weeks, so I was a bit anxious on … →

Today was the first really hot day here in New Jersey and I just did a brick workout in 94 degrees. 1 1/2 hour on the bike and 20 min run. The bike was fine. I did 1 quart of fluids and 2 gels. When I came home and changed for the run I ate 1/2 a banana and drank a 1/3 quart of water. However for the first time ever I did feel lightheaded after the 20 min run. … →