22. July 2026
Is Good Pacing an Art or a Science? Few things decide a race as much as the pace you choose. Months of training, solid nutrition, and motivation can all be undone by the wrong tempo in the first few kilometers. Pacing is therefore one of the core skills in endurance...
1. July 2026
Heat Adaptation in Endurance Sports: Why It Improves Your Performance and How to Train It Deliberately Summer races, muggy training evenings, an Ironman under the blazing midday sun – heat is as much a part of endurance sport as headwind is part of cycling. While many...
30. April 2026
The underestimated form of training: How strength training makes endurance athletes more durable and healthier Swimming, cycling, and running form the foundation of training for many endurance athletes. The focus is often placed on training volume and intensity within...
21. April 2026
Course Check Gone Fast In mid-April, a small group of Ironcoach athletes, joined by one guest, tested the bike and run course of the Rapperswil 70.3 🚴♂️🏃♂️. The plan was to keep it easy… but as usual, the group dynamic had other ideas 😄. Instead of cruising in Zone...
10. March 2026
Tips and Tricks for Tapering and Race Preparation You have done the work. Months of early mornings, long weekends, brick sessions, and careful nutrition. The fitness is built. Race week is not the time to add to it — it is the time to deliver it to the start line...
4. March 2026
Why Wrong Pacing on the Bike Will Ruin your Run Picture the scene at kilometre 15 of the Ironman run. An athlete — well-trained, well-prepared, genuinely capable of a strong marathon — is shuffling. Legs gone. Energy gone. The race that looked so promising out of T2...
