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If you have any training advice etc please
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See this link
for excellent overall advice on racing longer.
See here for articles on colds
and flu, supplements
and using 'Skins' for
training and racing.
Vicky has summarised her experience of the
Epic training week, see here.
See here
for a useful guide to wetsuit fitting, particularly the comment
regarding having a spare 'bunch/fold' of suit across the shoulders.
Weight
loss - the benefits for training and racing and how to
achieve it!
Nutrition for racing - Neill
describes the systems he used during 2006 alongside his
review of IM WA.
See here for post
IM blues and staying
motivated. There's also an interesting article on stress
and the immune system, maybe a good one to read as we
head into coughs and colds season!
A few thoughts post Roth (IM distance)
by Kelda Spratt
- Register/rack etc asap, stay out of the
sun.
- DON'T be drawn in to training (you will
see loads out doing stuff). I saw dozens out on the bike
course in the heat, 18 hours before the race. Very hot,
was mid 30s by lunchtime and windy.
- Pre Race training: I did 45 min run Weds,
1:15 bike Thurs and 20 min on swim cse Fri.
- Swim 22.3 degs, had to wear wetsuit. Make
sure you rehydrate soonest on the bike. Have painkillers
on top tube - hours hard swimming with hat in heat :-(
- ALL PROS had FOUR bottles on bike, so lose
your obsession with bike weight! I drank 4 litres plus and
I'm a small lean female.
- Run; seriously consider a Camelbak. I drank
a litre AND stopped at water stations. Be prepared to go
to some weird places mentally in last half and have a plan
for mental distraction!
- Don't plan on doing anything for a few
days after - don't be macho. It was as much as I could do
to get in to the tent!
- Oh yes and remember pain is only weakness
leaving the body! Enjoy!
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