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Your arm recovery adds a great deal to the momentum and rhythm of your stroke, and drills that train you to position your elbows and hands correctly will improve your arm recovery and maximise your forward propulsion, in some cases drastically reducing swim times. Advertisement Arm recovery is often overlooked by athletes trying to refine …
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The Brownlee Centre sits alongside a new 1 mile (1.6km) cycle circuit – one of the longest in the country – at the University’s Bodington Playing Fields in north Leeds. Advertisement It will also be a new National Elite Training Centre for Triathlon. The UK’s first purpose-built triathlon training base, it will combine a strength …
Challenge Family have announced a new event in Switzerland, the Challenge Davos Festival. Taking place September16-17 it will include a middle-distance triathlon, as well as a range of shorter distance events that form part of the national Swiss Tri Circuit. Advertisement The festival also features a 12 km time trial, The Flüela Challenge, that athletes …
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Click:Hyperbaric Chamber For Sale 2 ATA Are you tough enough to race the Monster Triathlon, a 550-mile event in September that sees teams and individuals swim, cycle and run from Loch Ness to London? Advertisement Open to the general public for the first time, participants will complete a 5km swim in Loch Ness, cycle 100 …
Tomorrow (May 6) all eyes will be on Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee as he aims to qualify for the 2017 70.3 World Champs at the Ironman 70.3 St George North American Pro championships in Utah, USA. Advertisement A win would give him automatic qualification, while a top 3 place leaves him well positioned to get …
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Alistair Brownlee has produced one of the most impressive Ironman debuts of all time today in Utah. Facing a formidable and hugely experienced field at the Ironman 70.3 North American Pro Championship in St. George, the Brit double-Olympic Games winner stormed to victory ahead of Canada’s Lionel Sanders, with his 3:41:58 overall time breaking the …
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Want to improve your biking skills, in particular your off-road skills and your strength and core? Pure Body Balance have teamed up with top downhill racer to create day and weekend retreats focused on corrective gym exercise, yoga, nutrition and skills coaching, with these day retreats being a huge success we have expanded them into full weekend retreats …
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The line up for WTS Yokohama includes Olympic medallist Jonathan Brownlee. This will be Jonny’s first race of the 2017 season after having to pull out of the earlier races in Abu Dhabi and the Gold Coast. Advertisement Jonny said: “It’s good to be back in Japan, and it’s good to be back racing. I’ve …
it was a top-class line-up at the third race of the World Triathlon Series, WTS Yokohama, which included reigning world champion Mario Mola (ESP), double Olympic medallist Jonny Brownlee, five-time ITU world champ Javier Gomez (ESP) and Rio bronze medallist Henri Schoeman (RSA). Advertisement Conditions in Yokohama, Japan, were wet and rainy, making it a …
Her return to WTS racing could not have gone better for Flora Duffy (BER). The ITU World Champion had missed the first two races of the season due to injury, but this performance in Yokohama signalled to the world she was not going to relinquish her world title lightly. Advertisement As well as Duffy the women’s field …
