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Coaching / Drills / Open Water / Training / Triathlon
You can spot them in your parking lot: those cars with the bike racks on top, sometimes with the bikes still in them. Along with the racks come the M-dot or oval stickers announcing the completion of...
Coaching / Open Water / Training / Triathlon
Preparing your athletes for an open water swim with a surf entry is an important part of helping them get ready for the coming open water season. The set below offers some ideas for how to teach...
Biography / Triathlon
Ben Munguia, 26, lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and dog. He swims with the Longhorn Masters. Munguia started swimming in 2009. After 25 yards of freestyle, he claims he was often “absolutely...
Triathlon
Listen, Land Creature:
Runner who has traversed miles in solitude. Miles of steps on dusty trails and lonely paved roads under your feet. You climbed a mountain once and gazed down on the panorama below you as though you’d conquered it all.
Drills / Open Water / Stroke Technique / Training / Triathlon
It's undeniable: many triathletes consider themselves cyclists or runners and regard the first part of the race as something to be tolerated, or worse, feared. Swimming in a frenzied open-water pack...
Triathlon
Olympic Triathlete Jarrod Shoemaker talks about how training with a U.S. Masters Swimming program and how it helps with in his Triathlon success. Jarrod Shoemaker is a member of the Minuteman Masters.
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