Articles by Slowman

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ROKA Guppy Challenge: Week 6

No more thought experiments. Now it's just practicing the drills and themes that we learned during the first half of this challenge.

by Slowman, January 15, 2018

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A Heart in Two Worlds

For the Butterfields, John Denver is on the iPod. Horses, llamas, goats, chickens, guinea fowl, and a peacock. But Bermuda is not forgotten.

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Is Triathlon Up or Down for 2018?

For those who think anything over 300 word is tl;dr: It'll be up in the aggregate, but the median race will be flat or down.

Training

Guppy Challenge: Week 5

Are you able to perform one-arm pulls as described? If so, you are swimming hip-driven freestyle! Now let's begin to focus on how you pull.

Training

Training Partners: Underrated

The power of the training enclave is huge; it's how most of the world's best athletes got to be good, and remain good.

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Genetics is Overrated

Genetics wins when you’re 11. But the older you get the more genetics falls to the point of being an inconsequential factor.

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Bermuda Swimcation

I tend to travelogue our family Slowcations here, and here is our latest: open water swimming in Bermuda.

Training

How Important is a Sports Background?

It's not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 4

You retain the vestigial behaviors from the time you were still struggling with learning to breathe to the side. Let's deal with those.

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How Important Is Where You Train?

I have less confidence in today’s installment than any I’ve already written, or any that I’m going to write. But I rank this rather high.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 3

When you have a hard time doing these drills you should rejoice! They expose problems, and we can't cure what we can't identify.

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Guppy Challenge: Week 2

Improving your hull is an exercise in 2 planes: feet on the surface (vertical plane); and feet moving forward, not side to side (horizontal plane).

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Technical Grasp of Sport

There are more important elements to success than this one, but a mediocre understanding of sport usually begets mediocre finishes.