Heart Rate Training
Okay, let’s just see a quick show of hands… How many of you already own a heart rate monitor of some description? Okay, quite a few of you. Alright, keep your hands up if you know how to [...]
Articles by rpopper
Sports nutrition tips – when to eat
Okay, you can see the article below with tips on what to eat, but perhaps the toughest part is figuring out when to eat. It’s tough because it’s going to be more personal and there are [...]
Sports nutrition tips – what to eat
Right now, I have a lot of triathletes I am working with on their Annual Training Plans and laying out their training and racing goals for the year. Pretty much everyone has been asking me about what [...]
Recovery & Reflections
It’s coming up to the 4-week mark after my first iron-distance triathlon and I’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the recovery phase after a big race. 4 weeks feels like about the right [...]
Forestman 2010: Sandy Balls, New Forest, Hampshire, England
Short version: No official times or splits available yet, so this is what my stopwatch said Swim (probably not the full 3.8k/2.4 mi): 1 hour Transition 1: about 7 minutes Cycle (180k/112 mi): 6 hours [...]
Sounds I Like
Swimming The sound of zipping up your wetsuit early in the morning. The small ripples you make in the water when you get in. The splashes other people make when they get in. They squeal and make [...]
Meditations on 5:30am
As a triathlete, you kind of have to get used to early mornings. Most races will start pretty early, and you’ll probably find you have to get up at ridiculously early times to get to the [...]
Wetsuit fetish
Okay, confession time! I don’t know much about fetishes, but I think I have developed a wetsuit fetish. One of the things I love about doing triathlons is wearing wetsuits. I love open-water [...]
Tubular tires: a hate-becomes-love relationship
In a moment of weakness, I put in a bid on eBay for a set of Zipp 440 carbon fiber tubular tires a few months ago. A new set of those wheels, the Zipp 404 tubulars, cost at least $1,500 for the pair [...]
Going Long
Sorry for the long silence. Been away for a while, getting stuck into my big challenge this year: training for my first ironman triathlon (the Forestman). For those of you who didn’t know (and [...]
Winter triathlon training, part 2: Cycling
Okay, it’s cold and dark and wet out there, if you’re living in the northern hemisphere and it’s what we call Winter time (not that bullshit they complain about in Florida when they [...]
Winter triathlon training, part 1: swimming
Alright, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, or who are not doing much racing until May/June/July, etc., this is probably what you would call our Base period of training. Now is the time to [...]
“Druid Challenge” Ridgeway Ultramarathon (a 3-day crash course in running marathons)
Last weekend I participated in the inaugural “Druid Challenge” ultramarathon, along the Ridgeway, a beautiful, tough trail, just to the northwest of London. I did it because: (a) I [...]
Brick training: bike-to-run, a true bitness love story
In the run-up to the London Triathlon, I had a miserable couple of weeks doing some really crappy work (teaching photography to a bunch of aggressive, violent teenagers) for which I was completely [...]
Brick training: swim-to-bike gear
Brick training is a concept that is popular in triathlon circles where you combine two different disciplines in one continuous training session. It is a good way of working different muscle groups [...]
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