Power Training and Racing, for Multisport, Webinar Series

Triathlon Forum
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Endurance Nation Presents: Training and Racing with Power, for Multisport, Webinar Series.

Do you own a powermeter but have difficulty finding quality information on how to apply the tool to multisport racing? Are you a power wannabee, interesting in learning more about these cutting edge tools? Are you ready to take your power training and racing to the next level?

Endurance Nation announces a webinar series focused on the unique power training and racing considerations of multisport athletes. The presenters are leading authorities on power meter use for multisport athletes, with years of experience teaching age groupers how to use these tools to further their multisport training and racing.

Sunday, January 13, 2008, 5pm PST: Power Training, for Multisport, FREE
Sunday, January 20, 2008, 5pm PST: Power Racing, for Multisport, $55
Sunday, January 27, 2008, 5pm PST: Analyzing Power Files, $55

Power Training and Racing, for Multisport, Full Series: $99
Full Series participants will receive a coupon for $50 off a TeamEN membership, regularly $99

Register today!

The Presenters
Rich Strauss, founder of Crucible Fitness and Endurance Nation. Rich has been training, racing, and coaching with power since 2001. Hundreds of athletes have use his power training plans to PR in the HIM and IM distances. Rich has distilled his experience into a simple, easy to understand and implement power training and racing system.

Jason Digman, Coach and Founder of Dig It Triathlon and Multisport. As an expert in power based training and racing, Jason coaches individual athletes of all levels and abilities in using power to its fullest advantage. Dig It athletes not only use the latest technology to train effectively, they have a good time doing it.

Kurt Perham, Coach and Founder of Personal Best Multisport Coaching . Kurt has trained/raced/coached with power since 2000 and helped to guide athletes from first timers, to Ironman World Champions. He specializes in integrating power data into the day-to-day training of his athletes.

Rich Ashburn is an age-group triatlete (M45-49) from Lafayette, CA, competing in all distances since 2002. He has been using power data in his training and racing since 2003, and has brought is day-job skills as an analyst to bear on some of the number-crunching aspects of using power data for training and racing. Be sure to read Rick’s power series here on Slowtwitch.

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These EN Webinars are great! I attended the IM basic week webinar last night. VERY informative. This is a great way to get some excellent information from some very experienced coaches without having to travel to a seminar. You even get the opportunity to ask questions, plus there is follow up Q&A on the EN forum.

A little information goes a long way!

Mike P.

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“Kurt Perham, Coach and Founder of Personal Best Multisport Coaching . Kurt has trained/raced/coached with power since 2000 and helped to guide athletes from first timers, to Ironman World Champions. He specializes in integrating power data into the day-to-day training of his athletes.”

HEY! That’s me, cool. I’ll be there.

Kurt

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Will Kurt Perham make a celebrity appearance at the Lake Placid 50K? I was wondering what NP to shoot for on that course as a percentage of FT and what variability to attack to the course with…do I get to coast the downhills or do I have keep applying power…wooops wrong sport…but will Kurt be seen on XC skis at this race?

Dev

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nope, told you man…all ski racing is in Maine this year.

Have to save $$ and hall passes for future events w/twins coming.

For LP, you want to ATTACK all out the first time up Russian Hill, not drink, V2 like a madman the whole Biathlon loop, then repeat. Simple. VI is 1.02 for that course for sure…

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How long is each webinar?

Thanks

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How long is each webinar?

Thanks

Presentation will be about 45’ + 15-20’ for Q and A from the audience. The first session is free so you can try out the format.

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You know, with all the technical turns on the descents on that course the quads are burning anyway, so if you could put a strain gauge under the ski boots, you’d probably see that VI is close to 1.02 on that course…50K, 4000+ feet of climbing…yeah sure…do it on the no fluid intake program to acclimatize for St. Croix…

But let’s slap a powermeter on the Kuota for Ironman LP and tape over the display and then download after the race…then you can post it and use it as an example of “This guy is so tuned into his Perceived exertion that he paces better than dudes with 5 years training with power”…or “Check out this clueless guy…a typical example of someone who thinks he can pace, but is yo-yo-ing all over the map and adding 10 min to his second half bike and 20 min to his run split…”

Good luck with the twins!

Dev

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1st session is free, how cool is that? Looking forward to Sunday, it’ll be good.

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But let’s slap a powermeter on the Kuota for Ironman LP and tape over the display and then download after the race…then you can post it and use it as an example of “This guy is so tuned into his Perceived exertion that he paces better than dudes with 5 years training with power”…or “Check out this clueless guy…a typical example of someone who thinks he can pace, but is yo-yo-ing all over the map and adding 10 min to his second half bike and 20 min to his run split…”

Seriously though, it would be interesting to do this and see the results. Why not give it a shot?

Thanks, Chris

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Chris…this is actually a serious offer by both Kurt (Trukweaz) and myself. We tape over the power meter display and let the athlete (me) ride his race the best way he thinks he can based on perceived exertion…then lets dissect it after the fact and perhaps compare it to a guy who trains with power on the road and uses the power meter in the race (I only train with power indoors on my TACX trainer). There are enough guys of similar ability riding Ironman LP in the 5:25 to 5:45 range that we should be able to get a good sample set of power files.

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Chris, maybe we can get this started ealier by doing this experiment in St. Croix. Let me see if I can borrow a Powertap rear race wheel off one of the guys.

Dev

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I plan to be in Placid, supporting my athletes.

I have so many SRM’s laying around, I can slap one on:-)

Dev, 175mm, 53/39

This will be COOL!!

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Dude…what’s with the BIGBOY 53/39 gearing…I’m the guy that uses the tincup 48/34 (good enough to come out of T2 in the top 50…)…let me see if can get a PT so that I can use my 34x25 coming through the Gorge on loop 1 and properly pace my ride for a VI of 1.02 and not do a VI of 1.1!!! But yes, it will be fun…especially the post event dissection on both ST and your Webinar series, “Look at this joker…he thought he could pace, but his ride is all over the map…”

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Dev on a 53/39…this I gotta see! That’s gonna look like a garbage can lid compared to the 48T he’s rockin’

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Honda Civic gearing for Honda Civic engine…I’ll leave the big boy gearing to the Ferrari engines…

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Dude…what’s with the BIGBOY 53/39 gearing…I’m the guy that uses the tincup 48/34 (good enough to come out of T2 in the top 50…)…let me see if can get a PT so that I can use my 34x25 coming through the Gorge on loop 1 and properly pace my ride for a VI of 1.02 and not do a VI of 1.1!!! But yes, it will be fun…especially the post event dissection on both ST and your Webinar series, “Look at this joker…he thought he could pace, but his ride is all over the map…”

I’ll make 2 bets right now:

  1. Your VI will definitely be higher than 1.02.
  2. Your VI will probably be lower than you think. I bet you’re a pretty damn steady rider. “Steady” by my definition would be a VI of ~1.05 on that course.

Good for you to give this a shot.

Thanks, Chris

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This should be an excellent Webinar. I’d recommend anyone who’s remotely interested in training and racing with power to check it out!!

Thanks, Chris

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Your engine works just fine, as evidenced by the top 50 to T2 but with Murphy’s Law on hiatus I figured someone needed to bust your balls for the little ring.

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I’m pretty sure that I will have no chance of getting to 1.02 especially on that course…on that point, what are your collective views of varying the power slightly cresting hills…let’s say you do most of a long hill at 0.7FT to 0.75FT but then in the final 50 m, get out of the saddle and accelerate over the top…in races up to half Ironman, the “accelerating over the top” can really reduce the bike split, with minimal impact on the run split given the opportunity to coast earlier (once you get your speed up to a certain point…say 60 kph)…and potentially carry more speed into the next hill and get further up that hill.

I think I know the answer already as I tend to pass the “accelerate over the top guys” in the latter half of an Ironman bike, however, there are many guys that keep pulling away…thoughts? Or maybe I should just sign into the webinar…