Trimarni Coaching and Nutrition

I can't believe we are only six weeks away from our first triathlon of 2019!! While a long season ahead (ending with the Ironman World Championship in Kona in October), I'm so excited to race!! After nearly 13 consecutive years of endurance triathlon racing, I still love the process of training. Before every race, I still feel all the butterflies in my stomach and wonder what obstacles I'll have to overcome during 70.3 or 140.6 miles. While  a well-designed training plan will have the proper mix of stress and recovery to ensure that the right type of training occurs at the right time, every athlete handles training stress differently. My body thirteen years ago would not have been able to handle the type of training that I do now.  Building a durable athlete takes time, careful planning and a lot of patience. This is not easy because athletes want results now – to be faster, stronger, leaner. The end result is an overworked body that fails to make significant perfo...

While watching the 2018 Boston marathon, I couldn't help but think about the resiliency and durability of the top athletes - especially the winners, Des Linden and Yuki Kawauchi who remarkably embraced the wind, cold and rain while covering 26.2 miles. For both, this wasn't their fastest marathon attempt but rather, success came from being durable and resilient. For any endurance athlete, there is great risk for injury and fatigue while training for an event lasting 90+ minutes. Certainly, every athlete training for an endurance event hopes to get to the starting line feeling fit, strong and healthy but not always does this happen. Sadly, far too many endurance fail to get to the starting line of their upcoming event due to injury or a health issue and if they do arrive, the body is weak, fragile and broken down. Because endurance sports are addicting, it's common for athletes to continue this cycle of never fully rebuilding or strengthening the body and to constantly...