Endurance Nation Triathlon Podcast

Rich and Dan go way, way, way back to the early beginnings of his Crucible Fitness days. They have been business, virtual training, and trash-talking partners for years. Dan has a PR of 10:20 at IMLP’07 and recent placed 9th in a bitter cold and rainy Michigan time trial. When Dan isn’t doing cool stuff with his fitness, like running 40 miles in the snow on his 40th birthday, you can find him coordinating the websites and marketing campaigns of his clients through Dan Socie Creative, or sharing a home office with his wife, Steph, as they tackle the birth announcement world through their shared business 2Peas1Pod

Endurance Nation Coach Rich Strauss discusses every inch, turn, hill and stride of the CaliHalf course. He knows it very, very well!

We are pleased to introduce Linda Patch. Linda is one of our original members. Linda set a 1:30+ PR at Ironman Flordia 2008 after training with EN for about a year. Since joining us in October, 2007, Linda's Functional Threshold Power (FTP) on the bike has increased from 146w to 181w, a 24% gain. Her VDot on the run has increased from 34 to 39 during our Out-Season program this year.  Most notably, through working with a "special" power-training protocol that we discuss in this podcast, she has increased her 5' power from 206w to 221w since December. Oh yeah, she is also a 50's-ish mother of four sons and the owner of Linda Patch and Associates, a PR and marketing firm. No, she is not some young thing with tons of recovery and time resources on her hands and, yes, she is very, very busy!

Matt Ancona is another member of EN Northern Illinois Sleeper Cell who has seen incredible gains after joining Endurance Nation after his fall marathon. You can read about Matt's improvement over the Out-Season in this detailed post on his blog: http://ironmancona.blogspot.com/2009/03/en-out-season-results.htmlCoach's Summary:Bike: 20% gain in FTP, from 209w, 3.3w/kg to 251 watts and 4.07 w/kgRun: 3.2 VDot increase in 16wks, with his final test coming shortly.Patrick and Rich (Endurance Nation Coaches/Founders) have the opportunity to travel to all of the North American Ironman (TM) races throughout the year and meet a ton of Endurance Nation members. But many of our members — though they train and network with each other virtually — only know each other as email addresses, forum names and signatures, rarely getting the chance to connect in the real world. We thought it would fun for us, the Team, and our listeners to interview our athletes. To put a name, a voice and a face to an email address/forum handle

Meet Carrie Himmel of Cisco, TX. Carrie and her husband Daniel are both members of Endurance Nation and are training for Ironman Cozumel, Carrie's first Ironman. Carrie is working mom and a neat lady, not a uber geeked out super stud, so we thought it would be valuable for you to meet her and gain her perspective on Endurance Nation. Patrick and Rich (Endurance Nation Coaches/Founders) have the opportunity to travel to all of the North American Ironman (TM) races throughout the year and meet a ton of Endurance Nation members. But many of our members -- though they train and network with each other virtually -- only know each other as email addresses, forum names and signatures, rarely getting the chance to connect in the real world. We thought it would fun for us, the Team, and our listeners to interview our athletes. To put a name, a voice and a face to an email address/forum handle and learn more about each other!

Join Coach Rich and Patrick as they talk about Patrick's 30-Day Run Project, the Cali Half coming up, training with TSS/fitness in the muscles and what set's  Endurance Nation apart from the coaching competition. Approx 45' in duration.

Patrick and Rich (Endurance Nation Coaches/Founders) have the opportunity to travel to all of the North American Ironman (TM) races throughout the year and meet a ton of Endurance Nation members. But many of our members -- though they train and network with each other virtually -- only know each other as email addresses, forum names and signatures, rarely getting the chance to connect in the real world. We thought it would fun for us, the Team, and our listeners to interview our athletes. To put a name, a voice and a face to an email address/forum handle and learn more about each other! So without further ado...Meet Chris Gleason (Chris G), an EN OG (original gangsta) with us since almost Day 1. You'll find Chris outside Albany, or in airport on business travel, or stalking the IMLP course during training camps in the summer.

Listen in as Coach Rich and Patrick do a walk through of EN, who we are, how we work, and how you can plug in to achieve your triathlon best. About 45' in duration with some references to the webinar we were doing.

Endurance Nation Coach Rich Strauss and professional mountain biker and coach Lynda Wallenfels, of LWCoaching.com, discuss the brand new St. George Ironman. Lynda is a long time resident of St. George, a former Ironman athlete, and knows every inch of the bike and run courses. She and Rich discuss weather, terrain, road conditions, hills, curves, chip seal, water temp, where to spectate, where to park, where to stay and much, much more!If you are a mountain bike or triathlete looking for the best guidance on how to train in the dirt, there is no one better than Lynda Wallenfels. Please check her out at LWCoaching.com!If you are registered for or thinking about racing Ironman St George, check us out at EnduranceNation.us. In only the first week of registration we already have 8-10 team members signed up for this race! We will easily have 20-30 athletes in the event by the time the gun goes off!

Coach Patrick gives a not-so-succinct review of the importance of capturing your fitness at the end of your OutSeason / OffSeason Program. Hard to tell if you are going to get to where you want to be (race day) if you don't know where you are (right now). Time to test people!

Endurance Nation coaches Rich Strauss and Patrick McCrann discuss the teams incredible race results last weekend, Rich's clinic in NoCal this coming weekend, and preview their Bike Fit webinar coming at the end of the month.

This Fall, Endurance Nation conducted a free, 90' webinar on heart rate based training. The webinar was converted to an ebook, which you can download below. Over 1000 athletes have read the ebook!Heart Rate Training RedefinedWe've now made the entire audio presentation available, also for free!

Coach P takes a swing at the Stump the Chump questions…including Wetsuit Selection, Intensity vs Base training and much more!

The 60'+ audio file to accompany our free ebook: Introduction to Training and Racing with Power.

Coach Rich discusses his thoughts on the "compartmentalization of fitness" adhered to by much of the triathlon world, and how this severely limits the perspectives and performances of age group athletes. Please share your thoughts with us by adding a comment! Please Twitter this post or share it with your friends on Facebook!

Coach Rich and Patrick talk about the Stump The Chump project, the impending release of their FREE Power Training eBook (stay tuned people!) and the two online events they are playing in next week: Triathlete's Coffee Shop and a webinar with Mike Folan of infinIT nutrition! Enjoy it!

Enough of Rich and Patrick talking about the camp; it's time for the campers to have their say. We are excited to have Leigh and Brian, both first time campers, weigh in with what was cool, fun, and epic about our week together in CA. Remember you can see the pics from the camp here! Enjoy!Approx. 21:00

Listen along as Rich and Patrick review their personal highlights from the 2009 Tour of California Camp. If you haven't already, be sure to check out the hundreds of camp pictures and videos in our Camp Album.

Coach Patrick reviews the magical ride that was Day 5 (thru Fort Hunter Ligget) and preps for the TT day in Solvang. Enjoy!

Coach P checks in with a review of Stage 4's Epic Day with 4 KOMs and 2 Sprints. 65 miles of incredible riding yesterday left smiles on everyone's faces...and Day 5 looks to be a great ride as we depart from the scheduled course for some coastal riding.