Coach TJ Tryon

With July come and gone, and August closely following, the Northern Hemisphere race season has crested and is coasting gradually into “late season” mode. Now’s the time to reap the rewards of the work you’ve been doing all year and apply it to the weekend races.
If you raced an Ironman in the last few months, [...] [...]

Are you keeping a log of your training activities?
Always keeping a workout log can seem to be a bit of an annoyance or perhaps a waste of time, but it’s really a critical factor in any superior workout routine. Always keeping a detailed progress log and checking your improvement will make a huge difference to [...] [...]

Many people know I am a huge fan of tubular tires.  Tubies offer a more superior ride, are lighter, just as easy to deal with for maintenance, etc.  My attraction to tubies is not just a fetish, they are just all around better than clinchers.
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One of the coaches for my master’s team sent this out, and it looks like a fun/challenging swim:
Beat the Clock – Starting on a 4:00 minute interval and subtracting :05 each time creates an approximate 97 minute set. Maintain a set distance (150s, 200s, or 250s) until the clock “catches up” to you. Rest for [...] [...]

You may see a new “tab” on the top menu bar called “Facebook Photos”. I’m going to try to migrate all the “photos” to “Facebook Photos”. Check it out…
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Here’s the video I have been discussing recently. Ian Thorpe is a fantastic example of an early vertical forearm.

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I wrote this little blurb back on 11/8/2009, in response to someone struggling with improving their 5k time.  This also applies well to improving your run times in general.  The background of this was that everyone was telling someone that the way to get faster would be to increase run cadence or stride length – which [...] [...]

Tonight was the start of our third week of open water swims, and six showed up to rainwater enhanced frigid lake temps – we were all glad to have our wetsuits on! In 63* water, the group ended up swimming 1.2 miles, which, by the end, was warm enough for just about everyone to [...] [...]

The swimmer at the top of the picture has a ‘high elbow’ (or early vertical forearm as some call it). If you look at the superimposed line, you can see that the forearm and the hand are acting as one and leading the sweeping motion of the pull. Looking at the swimmer at the bottom [...] [...]

Bob, Courtney and Greg came out to Creekside Middle School track for a great (track) running workout tonight. Hopefully they learned some great drills to use to work on their run form. I can tell you they definetly ran their 800 repeats with lots of heart! Great job tonight guys!
http://www.coachtj.com/wp-content/2010/04/20100421-Track-Workout.pdf
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