Every training session is an opportunity to become stronger, fitter, leaner or more skilled. Or with some luck, all of the above. Every time we train, we need to be training for a purpose. We should be setting out to achieve something.
Once we’ve identified what we’re doing it for, we have to finish the workout off with the best refuelling strategy possible. Even if you’re training to lose weight, you have to refuel after workouts to get the most benefit.
Your week should have one, two or three peaks. Key workouts …

Around the area where I live, there are lots of cyclists, runners and walkers out on the roads every day. On an average day over a thousand cyclists would pass our house. Riders of all abilities. There’d probably be several hundred runners and walkers go through this neighbourhood each day.
It’s easy to pick the triathletes, especially those training for longer races. With their compression socks, or their fuel belts and always wearing something which has Ironman printed on it somewhere.
It always amazes me that so many are out there just …

Last weekend we watched the Gold Coast Marathon. We stood at the twenty-two km mark and watched everyone from the leaders back to where the attention seekers started coming through. The people with silly hats, costumes etc. There’s was one guy (a sushi eater) running the marathon backwards carrying a big flag. Another one from the same place wearing all white compression tights from ankle to wrist, with shoulder length hair (Japan’s answer to Fabio, the most beautiful man in the world).
Apart from the attention seekers, the most noticable thing about the …