Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

  One race down, two to go.  We just completed the Whitewater Triathlon and one week later, we will participate in Gulf Coast 70.3. Six days later, we will race Xterra Oak Mountain.  Today we slept in and around 9am, we went for an easy ride. We left the house on our road bikes without a specific route in mind. We explored some different roads and made our way back to the house after around 2.5 hours. I ran an easy 38 minutes off the bike, listening to a podcast.  Although there is no one specific guideline, rule or method to speed the recovery after an endurance event, I feel it's important to walk you through some of the factors that contribute to your recovery time after an endurance event, some of the mistakes that athletes make when recovering from an endurance event and a few strategies to help you get back to good health after an endurance event. Why is race recovery important?  When training for an event, you welcome (and need) intentional and residual ...

On Saturday 5/4 we kicked off the first race in our racing block: 💫 Whitewater Off-Road Triathlon  (Charlotte, NC) 💫Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast (Panama City Beach, FL) 💫Xterra Oak Mountain (Pelham, Alabama) Three races over three weeks. We define a racing block as 2+ races within a 4-ish week time frame. Although we've completed racing blocks in the past, this race block approach is unique in that we have been training on three different bikes (road, TT, mountain bike) and running on road and trail. Preparing for events with different skills, terrain and physiological demands has been fun for us as it adds variety to training and keeps our body and mind sharp. We love racing blocks as it is the culmination of several months of periodized training and intentional overload. Knowing that there won't be much "training" between each race, arriving to a racing block healthy, fit, strong and resilient is the goal. Within each race of the racing block, we will recover quickly,...