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Feature Story: Top 10 swim drills by Wes Hobson

Here are a few swimming drills I use at my triathlon camps and swimming clinics for people to improve their swimming as well as their open water swimming.

* It is important to over-exaggerate any changes in your swimming stroke in order to change your form to a better and more efficient technique.

Feature Story: Top 5 tips to a faster swim time by Wes Hobson

As you know swimming is all about form. But what happens to most beginners when they are pushed to swim too hard too early?

When pushed too hard two things:

1) The form completely breaks down until they look like wet golden retriever doing the doggy paddle to fetch a stick and/or 2) they have to make frequent trips to the bathroom.

And just so we're very clear about this, we don’t really have to go to the bathroom for a whiz, we just need a break.

So today we thought it would be handy for us to review 5 tips to a faster swim time.

Feature Story: Ten Milestones of a Century Ride(Part 2)

What do you consider a long bike ride? I would say that anything over 50 miles is long, but many cyclists would consider any distance over a century ride (100 miles long). With that in mind, here are the ten milestones of a century bike ride (part 2) Part one is HERE.

Milestone Six: Dry Mouth

Feature Story: Ten Milestones of a Century Ride by Roman Mica

What do you consider a long bike ride? I would say that anything over 50 miles is long, but many cyclists would consider any distance over a century ride (100 miles long). With that in mind, here are the ten milestones of a century bike ride.

Milestone One: Anticipation and Preparation

A yes, the call of the open road beckons. The night before you go to bed a bit giddy. What adventures will the next day bring? Which team Jersey will you wear? It has to say "I know what I'm doing," but not shout "I'm a poser who wears yellow because I saw Lance wearing it."

Feature: A Boy and His Dog by Roman Mica

Picture this:

It is a sunny spring day, puffy white clouds hang overhead, a gentle cool breeze is caressing your skin, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the insects are chirping, and your trusted, and dare I say, faithful running partner is lazily jogging at your side, tongue out with his or her tail happily waging as you go for an early morning run.

Kona Week Feature: The Road to Kona by Roman Mica

The Road to Kona is a hilly one. When you watch the Kona Ironman race on television the bike course seems flat. But when you actually get on the road to Kona you are immediate surprised by how hilly it is and by all the crazy graffiti. More on this is a sec.

Kona Week Feature: Top 10 Things to do before the big race (part 2)

Congratulations! You've qualified for your first Kona slot. Now what? Here are the EverymanTri top-10 common-sense things to do in the days leading up to what will be your best Ironman. You can read (Part 1) HERE.

5) Stack the Odds in Your Favor
When race day comes, we are all betting on something whether we know it or not. Some of us are betting the weather will be cold, others are betting that it will be hot, while most of us are betting that it will be just right.

Kona Week Feature: Top Ten Tips before the big race by Roman Mica

Congratulations! You've qualified for your first Kona slot. Now what? Here are the EverymanTri top-10 common-sense things to do in the days leading up to what will be your best Ironman.

Feature: Everyman Endurance Podcast with Simon Lessing

He is:

4 Time World Triathlon Champion (1992,1995,1996,1998)

World Long Distance Triathlon Champion 1995 (4km-120km-32km)

Vice World Champion 1993 and 1999

3 Time European Triathlon Champion 1991,1992 and 1994

Feature: Top Ten Ways to DNF at Your Next Race (Part 2)

In my never-ending quest to help you avoid all of my painful, embarrassing and hard earned lessons, here are the Top 5 Ways to DNF at your next race.

Now keep in mind that I have attended the University of Suckology and that I do have a PHD in the many and various disciplines that it takes to really blow up during a race.

Feature: Top Ten Ways to DNF at Your Next Race by Roman Mica

Just to keep it honest, I must admit that I have countless years of experience at sucking come race day. So please note that these top ten tips don’t just come from your Average Joe DNF. No they don’t! Indeed, if they offered a technical degree in RDS (Race Day Suckage), I would not only be the student, but the professor, dean and trustee of the USDS (The University of Race Day Suckage).

10. Try something crazy just minutes before the race

Feature: Everyman Endurance Podcast with Zeal Optics

How do you go from Tokyo, Japan to Moab, Utah to Boulder, Colorado?

That’s basically the life story of triathletes and bike racers Wink and Michael Jackson.

Feature: Ten Secrets to a Personal Best (Part 2)

 Yesterday (in Part I of this feature) I discussed some of the basic mistakes I made as a newbie triathlete in hopes of passing along some hard earned wisdom. Today I complete the list.

So onward and upward. Here is the part two of My Top Ten Secrets to a Personal Best:

Feature: Top Ten Secrets to a PB (Personal Best) by Roman Mica

Over the years I learned a thing or two about achieving a personal best race time, through trial, but mostly through error. For instance, at my first real triathlon I came screaming out of the pool into transition and onto my bike in record time. It was only after I was well down the bike course that I realized that I was still wearing my swim goggles instead of my sunglasses.

Feature: Top Ten Ways to Lose Weight (Part 2)

In the first part of this Top Ten list Fred Bretscher wrote," for this Top Ten List I am going to assume that you are familiar with what is available out there to the same extent as most people who have not been living in a cave fashioning spearheads out of flint.  So, you can consider this:

The Top Ten List of Weight Loss Ideas for athletes who have already read a lot of Top Ten Lists of Weight Loss Ideas

Feature: Top Ten Ways to Lose Weight by Fred Bretscher

There is something compelling about Top Ten Lists.  They promise to provide the most vital information in such an easy to read format.  In less than a dozen lines or short paragraphs we can become as knowledgeable as the most learned expert, and privy to the greatest of secrets.  This knowledge is all that is required to change our lives.  Sort of.

If you do an Internet search for Top 10 Lists dealing with weight loss, you will find more lists than you can shake a carrot stick at.  So, why am I writing another one?  Because my editor asked me to.  I quote from an e-mail he recently sent me: