Coach Patrick wraps up the 2009 Ironman Louisville experience. He talks about the 30 athletes who raced (results) and the overall process of supporting the team (pictures). He even includes some race day / Kona tips before talking about the 2010 OutSeason Training Plan Sale through 9/30 and the Team EN Waitlist!

Episode 10: Rich and Patrick talk about the most important aspect of your training -- preparing to race: Determining pace, nutrition, & gear for your big day.

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.html

Coach's Summary:
Bike: 20% gain in FTP, from 209w, 3.3w/kg to 251 watts and 4.07 w/kg
Run: 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 and learn more about each other!

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!

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!

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 Redefined

We'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!