14 more weeks… labour day weekend special!

the weather has been hot lately!
we are now faced with the dilemma of training during cooler times to maximise training intensity or train in the heat to climatise ourselves to the Desaru ‘no shade and hilly’ conditions.
this week is a short work week, hope we can all have the long bike ride on sat and [...]

desaru training, 15 weeks more and 2nd week into training

last week was not a good week for most of us. too little time to train and too much of other things to attend to. life however must go on!
updates on last week; Time trial for Bike training; 1km and 3km. if you have not done any of the benchmarking for your training pace, please [...]

before you sign up for another race…

long distance races are getting more popular now.
20 years ago, there are less than 10 Singaporeans who has raced in an iron man distance triathlon, today we have hundred ironmen, marathoners, ultra distance runners, adventure racers and quite a few of them have very little training nor experience before they embark on this journey
it is [...]

the begining of the 16 weeks training program for 1st Aug Desaru long distance race

i have designed the program assuming that you have some background in triathlon training and racing.
there are in total 7 sessions a week of training with some weeks where there are bike/run sessions are done together. these Brick sessions are important in your race preparation.
before you start, you need to determine the different pace you [...]

looking ahead after singapore biathlon

it has been more than 1 month after singapore biathlon (7 march), many of us has started training for another race, and some may even have taken part in other races already!
it was a great race, with great weather (rained after we finished swimming), accurate distance (i think so but heard from some it was [...]