Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

In 30 days, Karel and I will be boarding a plane to Kona, Hawaii. Holy Moly.....we will be racing in the 2015 Ironman World Championship in 41 days!! This upcoming Ironman is very special for three reasons. 1) I absolutely LOVE racing in Kona. The island, the competition, the energy, the elements, the race vibe...it all makes me so excited to race for 140.6 miles! 2) This will be my 10th Ironman and 4th Ironman World Championship! I can't believe I have been racing endurance triathlons for 9 years and my body has allowed me to qualify for Kona at 4 of my 6 Kona qualifier Ironman races.  3) I will be sharing the race course with my best friend and hubby, Karel. This is his first Ironman World Championship and 4th Ironman that he will finish. We love racing together and sharing our personal race stories to one another, after the race.  Around this time of the Ironman journey, I find that Ironman athletes can make a few mistakes as it relates to training. There is a

Over the years, my training has changed tremendously. I wasn't sure how to approach the training as an endurance athlete so I followed the crowd and trained twice a day, long workouts on the weekends and dreaded the recommended "off" day on Monday.  It worked for my first Ironman, so I decided that if more is better, I should do even more than before. However, I became injured and extremely fatigued for my second Ironman and now I pay for that race (2007 Ironman World Championship) a few times every year since. With Karel's thinking outside the box, we have adapted a philosophy of "train hard, recover harder". Training is periodized so that we peak at the right time and training stays balanced with life. Every workout has a purpose, there are no junk miles and we have fun seeing progress. Sometimes there are off days but there are a lot of great days. The off days finish with the mindset that we accomplished something that we almost didn&#