Dinamic

3 of the first 4 age group ladies coming out of the water this year at IMSA were Dinamic coached triathletes. Another athlete reduced their swim pace from 2:05/100m to 1:35 in 12 weeks and is now 12months on holding 1:26/100 as css pace. So confident in saying that our system seems to work fairly well as well.

Yep not a problem, It will increase the wear on the tyre but it is not massive. Alternative is to get a cheap spare wheel and put a turbo specific tyre on it. Less wear.

Very good system for improving body position and minimizing drag, however often see people who having gone through this with an overly slow stroke rate and "overgliding". Like all things I suppose pro's and cons, but certainly does seem to work for a number of people.

The mustang will take one bike box which alleviates the vexing question of hiring wheels for yourself. Money saved can be spent on aforementioned mojitos.

Andy Andy Andy, you are missing the point of going to Kona as a partner. Do what we did. Hire a big convertible Mustang and simply cruise the course with the glasses on as Ri works up a sweat. I would suggest that if you want to train with her, for the swim get some seriously big fins to help you keep up. On race day make sure she sees you as she gets out of the water and on the initial loop and then head off to the beach bar world class mojitos. Make sure your out before she heads in for the run and you have the 42km to sober up on and cheer her across the finish line.

Very kind Sir. Feel free to give us a call happy to chat and always keen to share ideas

Have you seen the view from my studio? Not a chance.

Out of interest we have athletes based in USA and Europe in some cases they travel here once or twice a year where we do a lot of technical analysis and technical work they then go home and the programme is developed around their goals and what strengths and weaknesses we identified and prioritized to work on. Regular check up via video download also helps keep things on track. Is it ideal? no, but I don't agree that you can not be a coach over the internet. I do agree that Cut and Paste programmes and mass squad training not coaching.

Move to Capetown we do all that

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Also Marc Evans, or even, Carmichael

Spot on Andy. Stack and reach are often the determining factor in a good fit.

Excellent summary. I do a lot of lactate tests and often end up using the same car metaphors to explain the difference in intensities. Always thought the whole engine turbo NOS concept was a good way to get the point across. Glad I'm not the only one.

10% improvement at this level is a big ask. But the lad has huge heart and I would like to see him do it.

Times at London: Swim: Brownlee 17:10, Gomex 17:23 Henri Sch 17.13 Richard 18"09 Bike: Gomez 1:00:11; Brownlee 1:00:19, Henri 1"00:19 Richard 1:00:02 Run: Gomes 29:34, Brownlee 29:36, Henri 33:31 Richard 30:22 Henri was in the pack ahead of Richard and came of with the first bunch. Richard would have been less than 45 sec off the last man in the first bunch, but even trying to close that much took some of the sting out of his legs ( relatively speaking) The point I was trying to make is that RIchard is not the 5min behind on the swim that some people claim, he is much closer but infortuantely at this level any gap is a big handicap. If Henri can continue to improve his run he has a big future.

Sad I know many of the local guys I coach could not afford the cost so soon after 70.3 or before SA's or IM. The fact that it is priced in $ and converted to Rand was also a factor with the Rand dropping.

In all fairness at Worlds Richard was 45 sec of the Brownlees and in comparison Henri at worlds was in the front pack on the swim with ( without checking a similar time to Gomez and Brownlees

Not to be confused with Dinamic in Noordhoek, an authorized Retul bike centre. Confusing hey!

Yep I agree my question remains, how do you manage/cope with jumping your milage to 100km per week with 65km long runs if your milage pre Ironman has only been around 40km ( train what you race as per your advice) without seriously risking injury

Having coached a few pros this is typical of the sort of milage they can build up to 24000 m swim, 20 hours of cycling and 100km of running. Most of my guys who do the numbers I mentioned previously work, have families and train, and when I mean work normal 8-5 jobs. The difference again comes back to their goals, these are guys who want to be on the podium at their races. Participation v performance.

Agreed, that would tie in and yes we are talking biggest weeks.

See that's where I differ, from an agegroup racing point of view my feeling is that you want to be running between 50 - 70km/week, riding 10 - 12 hours a week and swimming around 12000/week, which is quiet a bit more. But it comes back to the "if you want to finish" point

Yep I suppose you can get through on that, but it is the difference between racing and participating, my point of view tends to wards the former, which is why I mentioned when discussing running milage the caveat that the individual is looking to race rather than finish. Same applies to the bike. The reality is that to be quick on a bike you need to invest time on it and I would suggest that 145 km a week would leave you undercooked if you were going for a solid time. John Lyle maintains that there needs to be different models of coaching and even admin for participation and performance sport, ( performance sport in my opinion is anyone who wants to do the best they can at a particular targeted race). No disrespect intended as I strongly believe there is a place for both approaches

Something I do to reinforce the importance of this when I run courses for coaches, is to have them pull their caps over their eyes and put the goggles on effectively blinding them. Position them mid lane and ask them to swim as far as possible until coming into contact with a lane rope. 70% or so can't get halfway down a pool and less then 10% get close to 25m. Just shows how out of balance most swimmers are and how they rely on the line to micro correct. As others have said bilateral breathing helps, but you also need to have good rotation on both sides otherwise your entry can cross over and result in a pull which goes out and wide thus pushing you across. Video analysis is really usefull in showing you what is going on and allows you to cognitively understand what is wrong and therefore more easily rectify it.

Fair do's. Concept remains the same, it would only leave you with 7:5 hours a day. And consider we did not take into account factors like getting to training venues, changing, getting ready to train, coffee stops etc. allof which would eat into the free time Really not feasible for most people