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JUNE 2016
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POTLUCK Thursday, June 9 Location: Ventura Cove
BEGINNER TRIATHLON AND KIDS AQUATHON Saturday, June 11, Location: Glorietta Bay
DUATHLON Saturday, June 18 Location: South Bay
AQUATHLON Thursday, June 23, Location: Torrey Pines
Check the Club’s website, Facebook page and/or Yahoo group forum for the most up to date activity details.
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ming portion of the race and not take the poor swim to the bike. When a poor swimmer struggles through the water, it may take many miles on the bike to recover from the swim. In order to become a more efficient swimmer, swim more, get instruction and swim more. Most triathletes just don’t swim enough. Improving your swim stroke is the best way to improve your efficiency. A training block of 6-8 weeks where you can swim for 4-5 days per week, incorporating drills, race pace efforts, and wetsuit swimming into your regimen can go a long way.
WEAKNESS!
Most people only do things if they enjoy doing them and if they’re good at them. This is true when training too. If you enjoy running and you’re good at it, then you’ll run. If you enjoy biking and you’re good at it, then you’ll bike. However, if you don’t enjoy swimming and you’re not a fast swimmer or very good swimmer you will put it off until the very last minute. But you have to swim if you’re training for a triathlon – it’s part of the race. Maybe your weakness isn’t the entire sport such as biking; maybe it’s just part of a sport such as climbing hills. One way to help get over that hurdle is to find a partner for that sport to help you get through it, or change the venue. Not sure what your weakness is? Take a look at the numbers from your last race. What leg of the race did you come in closer to the bottom of in your age group? That’s the leg you might need to put in a little extra work. Here are some ways to work on your weakness: If you are a slow swimmer, you may not ever become a fast swimmer, but you can become a more efficient swimmer, which will help you on the bike portion. This will limit the damages to the swim-
Cycling is low impact, but the biggest percentage of time in a triathlon is usually on the bike. If this is your weakness, adding in more sessions could really boost your overall performance. Keep in mind, however, that more intense cycling time could tire your legs, and you might notice this during your running workouts. So you may want to have your swim days in between your cycling and running days to give your legs a rest. Are you a masher or are you pedaling effeciently? Consider taking a pedaling technique course to verify and/or learn “proper” technique.
Focus on running a lot. The more you run, the more your overall time will continued on page 18