A program of The Prostate Cancer Foundation (see below), this initiative helps individual athletes raise money for better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer. Every dollar raised goes directly to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

The Chicago Triathlon is approaching fast and now that everyone’s registered and training hard I thought it would be good to give you some tips on the race and how to make it an unforgettable experience…This is particularly close to my heart. I missed my start because I had no idea about this so please if nothing else read this next sentence! The Swim Start is extremely far away from Transition.

I have taken quite a long break from writing and have gathered new momentum on Triharder. There are MANY exciting articles to come that I have been approached to write in addition to my own ideas. Thank you for all your support and encouragement for my site. I’m just getting started and wanted to give you a quick preview of what is still to come

The Avi-Bolt would be classified as a cushioned shoe as it has very little structural support or any medial posts to prevent rotation in the foot. It is therefore an ideal shoe for athletes with an underpronating or supinating gait. As far as Triathletes are concerned the Avi-Bolt’s worked well for me both socked and sockless as the engineered microfiber mesh has no uncomfortable joins or hard stitching inside.

After a recent discussion online I have found that it is very important that endurance athletes know the importance of sprinting. There is both a scientific and a laymen method to explaining the reasoning behind adding sprinting to your workouts. I am going to begin with the layman method because I have found that I am still some research away from giving you the best possible scientific justification.

In laymen’s terms sprinting makes you faster. That is the gist of it and a lot of endurance freaks shy away from sprinting because they were either never really good at it or just plain don’t like it. Well, if you want to run faster and hit lower mile splits then the best-known way is to do sprint workouts.

To really excel in swimming you need to practice swimming efficiently. A lot of inexperienced swimmers are under the impression that the faster you move your arms and harder you kick your legs, the faster you will go. This is in fact far from true.
The truth is that swimming more efficiently is the only way you’re going to increase your speed in swimming. Swimming efficiently means that you use your large back muscles instead of your shoulders and arms to propel yourself as well as use your entire body in …