Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

I can't believe it. We are just two weeks away from the 2015 Ironman World Championship. Over the past week, every now and then, it hits me and I have to take a long exhale to calm my nerves and to bottle up my excitement. In 14 days, Karel and I, and 1500+ age group and professional triathletes from around the world, will start our  140.6 mile journey on the hot and windy island of Kona, Hawaii. With every Ironman journey, I learn a lot about myself. This journey has been unique and special in that I had so much fun training my races this season and I had three great performances to help me re-discover my love for racing. I also really enjoyed how my body responded to all of the workouts. And many of those workouts were not easy!! I've never swam so much before, I've never ran so much before and I've never climbed on my bike so much before. And despite the training load that I accomplished week after week for the past 11 weeks, I've never felt so s...

I've always been an athlete/coach who favors quality over quantity. Well, maybe not in my first few years of endurance training but through leaning the hard way with many lows in my Ironman journey's, I have learned to appreciate a smarter way to physically preparing my body to race for 140.6 miles.  As it relates to training the human body for an endurance race (ex. Ironman distance triathlon), there are so many different approaches that I could spend hours and hours discussing all of the different methods that coaches and athletes follow in order to physically prepare the body for race day and dissecting how I prepare my athletes, of all different fitness levels and abilities, for endurance races. Now I will say that there is a big difference between actually changing the physiology of the body to physically be ready to handle the demands of the upcoming race versus feeling ready as it relates to the mental component of handling the demands of the upcoming race....