Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

IM Kona race week is nuts. Until you are here in Kona to experience the craziness in which athletes from all over the world take-over Ali'i drive, it's really hard to describe what it is like here in Kona during this week. Seeing that triathletes are extremely passionate about swim/bike/run and ALL gear and products related to the sport, this island feeds any triathlon addiction and you simply feel "normal" all week as you are surrounded by thousands of other like-minded individuals.  I say all of this as a 4x Ironman World Championship finisher but also as a first time spectator. I'm overwhelmed by all the stuff going on and I'm not even racing! :) There's really no other way to describe this week as it's filled with so many to-do's.....funny enough, many of which have nothing to do with race day! There is no much hype going on with the Ironman World Championship and it's so easy to be busy all day, every day. Our athletes are sticking to t...

If you know anything about IM Kona you probably know about two iconic places on the race course: The winds in Hawi and the Natural Energy Lab   We all know that Kona is hot and windy but when it comes to the energy lab - it's really not that bad when you run in it.....in training.  But training is not race day. On race day, we enter the energy lab after 2.4 miles of swimming in the ocean, 112 windy and hot miles of biking (with not a single tree to provide even an inch of shade) and then after ~16 miles of running. So, with 10 miles left in the final leg of the Ironman, we have 4 miles in the natural energy lab. At this point in the Ironman, this is the place where dreams are made...or crushed. After a steady 1 mile climb out of the energy lab, it's 6 long (and mostly lonely) miles on the Queen K Hwy, back to town, before the finish.  Karel and I decided to do our Sunday run (scheduled for 60-75 minutes) in the energy lab. Because race day will feel completely d...