Nearly everyone on the team has PR'd something at some point this year - FTP's, Vdot's, 5k's, 10k's, half marathons...it really has been a year of big improvements and newfound fitness.
Nice Tri has been looking for ways to provide more "value added" services for our athletes. We have a Registered Dietician (Athena Visel) who has helped quite a few athletes find balance and moderation in their nutritional pursuits. We've conducted numerous video swim stroke analyses to help our athletes become more efficient and faster in the water.
Our latest development is teaming up with local swim coach and uber-fast triathlete Danielle Ohlson. Danielle is rounding out the coaching compliment at Nice Tri with her 10+ years of swim coaching experience and terrific personality. She will be offering swim stroke analysis and recommending drills that will help you eliminate chronic flaws that are slowing you down in the water. As we know, swimming well is largely related to technique, so it is imperative to have a good grasp on the fundamentals of swimming well and breaking old habits in order to get faster.
Our goal is to provide "hands-on" instruction for our athletes in order to help them meet their goals. It's one thing to provide someone a structured training plan for the year, but it's another story to ride along with them and recommend changes that they could make in their position or race execution to allow them to get faster.
It's been fun to keep track of the improvements we've made. These numbers have come from a combination of tests and actual race results, so they are not "pie in the sky" calculations.
The "average" athlete at Nice Tri:
- Will make an 8% improvement in their Vdot score over the course of 8 weeks, and will improve their 5k time by over 2 minutes.
- Will make a 15% improvement in their FTP on the bike. This will translate to over 4 minutes saved on a 40k time trial, and an average of over 17 minutes saved on an Ironman bike split.
- Will have a very good idea how much they can eat and drink on race day without getting bloated or nauseous through race simulations.
Remember, not everyone is average! Some of us are still figuring out our pacing and nutrition, but it has been a great year so far and we're excited to be working with our new swim coach to make things even better!
If you haven't had a chance to meet the gang yet, make sure to say "hi" at our next training event or race. We spend a lot of time getting together, training, and socializing which really has made it a great team to be on.
Next stop: Eagleman 70.3. The word on the street is that it's a little bit toasty there, so let's hope for some warm Upstate weather so we can get some heat acclimation going!
Train Hard. Race Easy.
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