Ironman is a special sport.
The feeling at the finish line is like no other.
Moments before crossing the finish line, as you are running arms aloft along the red carpet loving life, take a moment to really appreciate what it took to get to this point.
You have worked incredibly hard for this moment, made many sacrifices, pushed yourself like never before, become fitter than at any point in your life. During the race you’ve pushed beyond what you thought yourself capable, fought off some mental demons for a large part of the race. Yet, you are here. You’ve made it. You’ve overcome all of that and are standing at the finish line, arms aloft, a smile beaming across your face and that medal around your neck. You hear a voice in the distance … “You are an Ironman”.
What a journey!
But let’s rewind a little.
Before we get to experience that joy, we have the small matter of training.
Above all other things, the key ingredient to Ironman success is training consistency. One good training week on top of another, on top of another, on top of another. Fitness builds. Speed comes. It’s a big commitment. 6, 8, 12 months of training. There will be weeks when training is difficult due to family or work commitments. That’s fine. That’s life. The important thing is to make them the exceptions.
As one of our athletes, we will put together a training plan that is individual to you, that fits in with your life, that takes your current level of fitness, strength and skill into account.
The training programme will take account of your life and your time available to train. We have had athletes produce great Ironman performances with very different training programmes. At one end of the spectrum, we’ve had an athlete have a great race on just six hours per week training time, whilst others have averaged 8, 10 or 12 hours.
We will develop a training strategy, which will break down the next eight, nine or ten months into training phases, phases where we concentrate on specific aspects of your training. This could be a focus on endurance, on speed, on strength within each discipline. It could be a focus on a specific weakness such as swimming technique, or bike endurance. Whatever it looks like, it will be individual to you.
We will work together to get you standing on the Ironman start line fit, fast and confident.
I have a lot of athletes who are taking on a long distance race this year so you would be in good company if you wanted some support!
Ironman races in 2023 where our athletes are racing include:
🥇 Ironman Lanzarote
- Graham – 30 minute PB!
🥇 Ironman Hamburg
- Dani – Ironman debut – 12 hours and 16 minutes
🥇 Ironman UK
- Christian – Ironman debut
- Garry – Ironman debut
- Jon – Ironman debut
- James – 3rd Ironman
🥇 Ironman Copenhagen
- Marc (90 minutes quicker than previous races)
🥇 Ironman Wales
🥇 The Outlaw
- Jon (almost three hours quicker than his last race!)
We also have athletes racing Ironman 70.3 races around the world too.
Take a look at our coaching packages and see what you think.
To see if I would be a good fit for you, get in touch, we can have a chat and then take it from there.
