Brett Werblow

Next up: Resting for 2-3 weeks with no structured training

I may get out do a ride and run to qualify for the Dumpster Fire Triathlon going on through the club.

Then, the Richmond Marathon & Half are still a go in November.  They are setting up a course along a paved trail that will be open to racers for three weeks and it’ll still be chip…[Read more]

Thanks Jason & Coach AJ.  My practice race up in Michigan was a success with some good pre-race anxiety, start line adrenaline, some mental battles on the bike, and some hamstring cramps on the run.  Lessons were learned and at the end of the day it was a 20 min PB at the 70.3 distance for me.  Now that I’ve had a week to come down from the ex…[Read more]

James – I recently flew with my TT bike and had to research this thoroughly before flying with Delta.  I rented a Scicon TSA 3.0 case from Transition Triathlon bikeshop in Leesburg, VA.  The cost was $100 for 1 week and $6/day after that.  The case was perfect and only weighs about 15#.  My bike flew for free as a checked bag on Delta and no dam…[Read more]

Awesome idea.  I thought their would be a “code”, but you just select HIP participate and it’s $free.99 for us 🙂  I look forward to putting the training to work with completing the distance in the month of Sept.

Hi pgfde121 –

Are you still renting bike cases?

Thanks,

brett

Congrats on completing your practice races Romain & Julia.  Learning from what you guys have done will certainly help me when I do mine at the end of August.  My race, the Traverse City 70.3 was just cancelled last week.  I am still going to finish out the training program & complete the race that day with my family being the support crew in no…[Read more]

I’ve experienced similar results. Since pools closed I took those days and worked with stretch cords and on core activation drills. This past week I’ve been at my hometown in Michigan and have been Doing OWS each day. While the water is cold, I’ve been surprised that I haven’t lost much swimming endurance over the past three months of no swimmin…[Read more]

Hains point is “kind of” open. The Gates are closed on both ends so there is no car traffic allowed, but I’ve been biking there during the week and saw a DC police officer in there last week and he didn’t have any issues with me doing back and forth laps. With the gates closed, I was just turning around at each end instead of the normal loop.

That is helpful guidance Coach AJ.  You interpreted my poorly worded question just fine :).  I am on week 1 of the training program and was wondering where to start swimming once we are able to swim again, but as expected there is no right answer here.  Starting where I would out of off-season sounds like the right idea to give me a benchmark to…[Read more]

AJ, thanks for starting the conversation around swimming alternative workouts.  I’ve been doing ~20 mins of stretch cords & core work in place of my swimming workouts.  Really anything to just get the traps to fire and activate for a given period of time.

I am on a little different schedule that most in the group, since my race isn’t until the e…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing the video on building workouts in TP.  It was quite helpful.