Dear Podium: I have two young children and I’ve been finding it harder and harder to get my spouse’s support when it comes to racing. Every time I go for a long training ride or a run I get negative reactions from my spouse and with races taking up big chunks of my weekends,...
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Michael Lovato won this year’s Arizona Ironman and is eager to stake his claim in Hawaii’s Ford World Championships next October. But as many were saying the day he won his first Ironman competition in Coeur d’Alene, “Who is this guy and Where did he come from?” Well we’re here to tell you since...
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At 6′ 2″, 240 pounds, Dan Cox is certainly on the larger end of the triathlete scale. It’s just hard to imagine upon meeting him that less than five years ago he tipped the scales at a very non athletic 400+ pounds. Cox has always been an athlete. Born and raised in the “two...
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Hunter Allen is the owner of the Peaks Coaching Group, Inc. and the co-developer of CyclingPeaks Software. Widely known as one of the top experts in the world in coaching athletes using power meters, Hunter recently co-authored Training and Racing with a Powermeter with Dr. Andy Coggan. His coaching credentials include being a category...
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Joanna Zeiger turned pro in 1998 after being voted 1997 Amateur Triathlete of the Year. As one of the more versatile triathletes in the world, she excels at both the longer Ironman distance races (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run) and the shorter Olympic distance (.93 mile swim, 24.8 mile bike,...
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Editor’s note: The Spanish Courts upheld charges filed recently against Eufemiano Fuentes and Jose Marino Batres, the doctors at the center of a major doping investigation in cycling that busted Jan Ullrich, Ivan Basso, Francisco Mancebo and several others out of the 2006 Tour de France. Nearly 100 bags of frozen blood and equipment...
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Editors Note: Goal Setting is commonly referred to as an integral mental skill. However, in our experience there are few coaches and athletes that really know how to do it properly. It is a mental skill that will require months of diligent attention the first time through, but like all skill sets, it becomes...
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