Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

Who's excited to race??? A lot goes into planning our race schedule. This is why we try to establish a clear plan as far in advance as possible. Not only does this help us plan travel/accomodations at reasonable prices (not waiting until the last minute) but for a goal(s) to be reached, races should be strategically planned. Otherwise, the training can not be periodized or structured in a way that can safely induce positive training adaptations and race readiness. In other words, you will either peak too early or feel the need to rush the fitness gaining process. I find that far too many athletes don't put a lot of deep thought into the purpose behind each race on the race calendar. When selecting a race, you first want to give yourself a few short and long term goals (and one or two stretch goals) for what you want to achieve this season and onward. This will help you understand what you want to get out of every race - giving each race a clear purpose. As a general t...

A lot of thought, consideration and planning has gone into this schedule, specifically our love of travel, challenging courses and racing with our athletes. Although our first race of the 2019 triathlon season feels forever away, we are excited to officially share when and where we will be racing in 2019. Ironman 70.3 Haines City Karel and I will be sharing this race course with many of our athletes as this will be our first Trimarni team  race of the season. We like this venue because it's super spectator friendly. The race also provides a great no-pressure vibe to kick-start the season and dust off the rust that accumulated over the winter. This race will serve as a gentle reminder of the suffering that goes into racing for 70.3 miles. Ironman 70.3 St. George Although I love, love, love this race venue, I chose not to do this race this year so that I can focus on Chattanooga 70.3 as my early season key race. Karel, on the other hand, will be participating in th...

Just one year ago, Karel and I raced Ironman St. Croix 70.3. It was the most amazing experience and the course was ridiculously hard. We loved every mile of the race and we will never forget the entire experience of racing on this island. It's like a mini Kona, Hawaii!  If you are interested, I dedicated 10 blogs to all things St. Croix, starting with our travel to the race, our race week experience, our race report and post race.  Trimarni St. Croix 70.3 blog series As athletes, traveling is part of the racing experience. Eventually, you will be "forced" to travel outside your community or state to race in an event. You may be racing in a national or world qualifier race or the national or world championship. Or you may be racing in a really awesome destination as a bucket-list race. Traveling for a race should be a fun, exciting and memory-filled time for you, your friends and/or family. But let's be honest, there are so many unknowns and logistics wh...

What a great feeling to have our A+++ race planned for 2015!!! Is it too early to start the Kona countdown? So the question is....How much fitness can we gain over the next year as we save our best performance for the 2015 Ironman World Championship? Just to clarify, we will never race injured or sick so this schedule is always subject to change. Also, no race on this schedule is as important as Kona so we will never put our bodies in a situation that we may sabotage our Kona race day performance in a less important race. Because we do not incorporate a lot of high volume training into our Ironman training plans, we will use most of our season focusing on skills/form, strength and speed prior to increasing volume. Our typical IM prep is around 12 consecutive weeks. Also, we know that life "happens" all the time and we always strive to find balance in life as age group triathletes so rarely does a planned schedule go 100% as planned.  I will dedicate a blog her...