Fwd: Top-10 books, blogs and resources for triathletes

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From: Mikael Eriksson

This week I finally answer the question "What's your favourite book, blog, or resource related to triathlon?" myself. As you know, I ask that question of all my interview guests, but in EP#125 I give you my top-10 resource list (plus a number of honourable mentions). And Andy Blow makes a return appearance on the podcast to discuss how to train for Swimruns. Andy has competed in the World Championships and is also a former elite triathlete himself. We discuss both training to compete and training to complete, as well as some gear, nutrition and hydration strategies, and more. Enjoy! Top-10 books, blogs, and resources for triathletes | EP#125 Effective Swimrun Training with Andy Blow | EP#126 My Top-10 books, blogs, and resources Well, I won't give it away in this email, you'll just have to go to the shownotes page (click the link below) or listen to the episode in your podcast app to get the full list. But I'll give you some hints for my top-3, and you can have a guess before looking up the list. Email me if you got all three right, and I'll respond with a virtual pat on the back, m'kay ;) #3 is actually a few different books by an author who has not been a guest on the podcast before, although his name keeps coming up fairly regularly. And I've recently talked about bringing him on as a guest in the autumn, around the time of the release of his next book. So if you guess the author right, you got it for this item. #2 is related to swimming, and is a set of resources originating in Australia/the UK, depending on how you look at it... the man behind these resources has not been a guest on the podcast either. #1 is a single book that I mention a lot on the podcast, and many of the co-authors of the book are previous guests on That Triathlon Show. See if you guessed right, get the full top-10 list, plus my list of honourable mentions here: Top-10 books, blogs, and resources for triathletes | EP#125 Effective Swimrun Training Andy Blow, former elite triathlete and founder of Precision Hydration joins us to discuss effective Swimrun training. If you haven't given Swimruns a try yet, you absolutely have to do it! They are just incredible experiences that I always find reinvigorate my love for endurance sports. Some key takeaways from my discussion with Andy are: If you are "triathlon-fit", you can easily complete a Swimrun with a minimal number of specific swimrun workouts (3-5 of them is plenty). So if you just want to try one without taking focus away from your key triathlon events, that's fairly easy to accomplish. The distribution of swim training/run training when actually focusing your training on swimrun depends on your strengths/weaknesses in the respective sports. If you're equally strong across both, a 50/50 distribution is about right. If you have a clear weakness, the focus may shift towards that discipline, but if your weakness is in running, you don't want to increase the proportion of run training too much because of the increased injury risk. Andy's nutrition strategy in his Swimruns is quite different from what I described in episode 63. Andy relies heavily on the aid stations, and carry only a few spare gels on him. This means he has learnt to consume a large amount of energy in one go (e.g. a gel, a banana, some chews, and a piece of cake) and then let that fuel for the next hour or so, depending on how far it is to the next aid station. I like this strategy as you don't need to carry so much food, but it does sound like something that has to be practised diligently before race day. Listen to the episode here: Effective Swimrun Training with Andy Blow | EP#126 Keep training smart, Mikael That Triathlon show is sponsored by Precision Hydration. One-size doesn't fit all when it comes to hydration. Take Precision Hydration's FREE Triathlon Sweat Test to get personalised hydration advice tailored to what you're training for. Use the discount code THATTRIATHLONSHOW to get your first box or tube of electrolyte product for free.

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Next Step meets downtown, 1/3/5th Monday at noon, 612 Smithfield St (library conference room).

Dawn Patrol meets 1/3/5th Fridays 7:15am, above the Y on 5Av. 

Northside meets 2nd/4th Thursdays 6:30, library on Federal St. 

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Fwd: 9 SCORES alumni represent the USA!

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We're at the Street Child World Cup in Russia

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9 girls and the experience  of a lifetime Dear Mark, Yesterday in Washington, DC, we formed a cheer tunnel as nine SCORES alumnae from our flagship program, DC SCORES, boarded a bus to New York. Some 24 hours and a long flight later, the teenage girls, along with two coaches, arrived in Russia as the only team representing the U.S.A. at the Street Child World Cup.  The team will be in Moscow for nine days playing in a soccer tournament with teams from around the world. Additionally, the girls - all from at-risk backgrounds - will speak about the issue of youth homelessness and connect with more than 400 other kids from around the world. Later this summer, the team will speak on Capitol Hill and in front of the United Nations about this life-changing experience. Here's how to follow along during the team's trip in Russia: Watch the ABC story about their send-off Follow updates from Moscow via our Twitter feed Learn more about the team: Press Release   America SCORES inspires urban youth to lead healthy lifestyles, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.   www.AmericaSCORES.org STAY CONNECTED

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Fwd: The civilization wreckers' next target

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From: Tom Woods

May 8, 2018 View this email in your browser Connecticut just became the tenth blue state to pledge to cast its electoral votes for whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote nationally. Why? Because according to the measure's proponents, the electoral college -- along with everything else that's more than 10 minutes old -- is backward and stupid. Here's one more step toward making the United States into a giant, undifferentiated blob, as opposed to the collection of distinct societies it was originally intended to be. The Constitution refers to the United States in the plural every time, and the way the Constitution and the Union were originally understood, the "popular vote" was an irrelevancy. During the World Series, for example, we don't add up the total number of runs scored by each team over the course of the series, and decide who won on that basis. We count up how many games each team won. Thus: Game 1: Red Sox 10, Mets 0 Game 2: Red Sox 15, Mets 1 Game 3: Red Sox 5, Mets 2 Game 4: Red Sox 1, Mets 2 Game 5: Red Sox 0, Mets 1 Game 6: Red Sox 2, Mets 3 Game 7: Red Sox 3, Mets 4 In this imaginary series the Red Sox scored 36 runs while the Mets scored only 13, yet everyone would acknowledge that the Mets won the series. Not a single sports fan would be running around demanding that we count the total number of runs instead, or insisting that the way we determine the World Series winner is sinister. But I think this is the correct analogy with the electoral college. How many games — e.g., how many political societies, albeit weighted to some degree by population — did you win? Also, the electoral college puts an upper bound on how much support you can earn from any one state. Even if your whole campaign is geared toward taxing the rest of the country and handing the money to California, you still can't get more than 55 electoral votes from that state. So to some extent, the electoral college forces the candidate to run a national race more than would be necessary otherwise. A group called National Popular Vote, which seeks to abolish the electoral college, claims that "presidential candidates have no reason to pay attention to the issues of concern to voters in states where the statewide outcome is a foregone conclusion." But this problem becomes much worse without the electoral college. If there is no limit to the support I can get from California and New York, then I'll campaign in those states like a madman. At least the electoral college puts something of a brake on this kind of strategy. A brief note about Trump's defeat in the popular vote: had the election been decided on the basis of the popular vote, Trump would have campaigned differently in the first place. Also, more people in, say, California would have bothered to vote for him. So we can't know that he would have lost the popular vote had those been the rules. What we do know is that every step toward making the U.S. into a giant blob instead of a decentralized collection of societies is a step toward more centralized, bureaucratic management of society, and away from liberty. We're not taught to think this way in school, of course. You know where you do learn this stuff?   http://www.LibertyClassroom.com Tom Woods Share Tweet Forward to Friend Copyright © 2018 Tom Woods, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at yourfriendsarewrong.com, tomwoods.com, bernieiswrong.com, contrakrugman.com, or nostateeducation.com, or you received a free eBook by texting various words to 33444. Our mailing address is: Tom Woods PO Box 701447 Saint Cloud, FL 34770 Add us to your address book

Fwd: Exclusive Training Camp in the sunny Algarve, Portugal - 21 to 26 May

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From: Mikael Eriksson

Hi Mark, It's my great pleasure to invite you to an exclusive training camp in Quarteira, Portugal. You'll find more details further down, but here's a quick summary (if images don't display, click "Display images" in your email client): Training Camp Algarve (20-26 May 2018) Summary Dates: Check-in Sunday 20 May with introductions and optional training. Official training days are Monday 21 to Saturday 26 May, with check-out Sunday 27 May. Duration: 6 to 6.5 days (depending on when you check in), 7 nights Location: Quarteira, Algarve on the southern coast of Portugal. Quarteira is the triathlon capital of the region and has hosted European Cup races for years.   How to get there: Fly to Faro and get a transfer to Quarteira (cost ~25 euro) OR fly to Lisbon and join me in my (rental) car down to Quarteira on Sunday morning/noon (if you rent a bike in Quarteira).  Direct flights from London to Faro are available for ~130-140£ at the moment, round-trip. Participants: Only 4 athletes can attend this camp, in order to make it very much driven by the individual needs. AKA exclusive!   Accommodation: Private apartment 50 meters from the beach with 2 bedrooms, 4 beds, fully equipped kitchen, Wifi, etc. Cost: 580 euros for registrations by Saturday 12 May, 690 euros after What's included: Accommodation (7 nights) Complete coached training week with constant feedback as one of only four athletes on the camp Access to 50 m pool and 400 m track Swim and run video analysis After the camp, you get a personal Athlete Report which explains in detail what areas you need to work on, a reminder of specific drills, exercises or type of training to achieve this and your video analysis files You can also get a Virtual Wind Tunnel analysis done to assess your aerodynamics at a 50% discount (64.50€ rather than 129 euros) Preliminary Training Schedule: Mo: Bike (long ride), open water swim Tue: Run (track + video analysis), Swim (pool, technical + video analysis) We: Bike + run brick session Thu: Open water swim (race-specific), Bike (hills/cadence) Fri: Run (long), swim (pool, endurance + open water skills) Sat: Bike (long ride) Other information: Food and restaurants: Quarteira is full of good restaurants with very affordable prices. For many of our meals we will, therefore, eat out, but we also have a fully equipped kitchen to cook ourselves, depending on the participants preferences. Triathlon education: I will prepare and conduct workshops/seminars on specific topics (I'll ask for your preferred topics when you register). These will be informal (but well-prepared), interactive "classes" designed to empower you to become a better triathlete on your own when you resume training at home. Examples of topics are: planning and analysing training, planning and executing in races, nutrition, strength training, technique, equipment, etc. REGISTRATION Reply to this email now to secure 1 of 4 available slots for this exclusive camp. If you have any questions, email me and ask! When you confirm your registration by Saturday, you secure the best price for this camp. I look forward to welcoming you to amazing weather, amazing cycling and open water swimming opportunities, and just a really good fun week together in triathlon company! Cheers, Mikael

Kylatie, 10 A 1, 00320 Helsinki, Finland