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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — FFT is proud of its collegiate triathletes who competed in USAT Collegiate National Championships today along with nearly 1,300 other collegiate triathletes. In addition to the FFT-coached Duke University Triathlon Team, five FFT Professional Development Team athletes representing colleges from California to the East [...]
The Off Season Eric Bean MD, MS and Alex McDonald MD Ahhhh…the off-season! Finally a time for some well-deserved R&R after a long hard, and hopefully successful, season. At first glance, the off season is straightforward. Just do less working out and do it easier. And for most intents and purposes, it is a simple [...]
Today in Kona, Hawaii, the 33rd running of the Ironman World Championship saw Craig Alexander break Luc van Lierde’s 8:04:08 course record with an 8:03:56, and win against a stellar field. Over the same course, six FFT athletes excelled in the harsh conditions and claimed 3 podium finishes. FFT Athlete/Coach Mike Lavery (26, Madison, [...]
This past weekend I ventured northeast to Burlington, Vermont to compete in the Age-Group National Championships. I had not raced in over 5 weeks, so was able to use this time to focus on my training and prepare myself for what I consider the “championship season.” This season is a bit tricky in the sense [...]
Accepting my Kona slot!!! (Photo effects courtesy of Amanda Grant). KONA 2011. KONA 2011. KONA 2011… When I decided to dabble with the sport of triathlon during the fall of 2009, I signed up for the Nation’s Tri with Brian Duffy and Andrew Coleman. Just days after completing my first tri, I wrote in an [...]
Cannell’s doping suspension gives Bean TT National Championship By FFT Staff On April 16, 2010, Peter Cannell, 37, of Mebane, North Carolina, provided a urine sample to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in a no-advanced-notice out of competition test. Mr. Cannell’s sample returned an “adverse analytical finding”, or positive test result, for the anabolic [...]
It’s been far too long since my last post, so I wanted to take this time to recap 2010 and provide an outlook on the upcoming 2011 season. I have settled on a race schedule and am looking forward to a fresh season after coming off a season riddled with bad luck and things simply [...]
We’re just a month away from race season! This is the worst time of the year for me. Everything is so close, but still so far away. Racing is just a few weeks away, but there are still plenty of painful workouts before then. The weather is trending in a positive direction, but there are [...]
By Erika Erickson As an athlete, I struggle a lot with finding and maintaining balance in my training. This isn’t so shocking, because I struggle with finding balance also as a grad student, a friend, a daughter, a sibling, a roommate, a significant other, a…well, you get the idea – it’s hard to balance all [...]
Often friends and training partners ask me what products and tools I use for training and recovery, so I thought I would share my list of favorites. These are all tools that I find most essential to training, racing, and recovering (other than my bike, running shoes and swim goggles!) I wanted this list to be [...]
From the time we’re in grade-school until we’re settled in our 20′s – some of us, even in our 30′s – we’re told that setting goals is a key, if not the key, to achieving what we want in life. Some people are better at setting goals than others. That is, they either knowingly or [...]
