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Balance Exercises to Improve Ankle Stability for Runners and Triathletes

Leave a Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

I’ll start off with a disclaimer if you’re having significant issues with your running or exercise routine or things are getting worse, seek professional assistance. There are some awesome physical therapists, athletic trainers, running coaches, triathlon coaches and personal trainers out there. They aren’t hard to find. In this post I’ll share some of my …

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10 Tips to Improve Your Triathlon Season

1 Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

So the off season, time to reflect on last season and think about next season. An opportunity to ask yourself: where am I going and how do I get there? Here’s another question while you’re at it: am I having fun? Below is my take on the relentless pursuit of progress. Remember it doesn’t have …

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A Tale of Two Triathlon Camps

Leave a Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

Every once in a while life serves up one of those snapshot moments. One of those times when you can clearly see where you were and where you are now. In August of this year and last year I attended the TYB Augusta Preview weekend. The difference between the two weekend experiences was dramatic. I …

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2015 Top 10 Endurance Sports Lessons

Leave a Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

New year, new thoughts. Time to look back at a year’s worth of workouts and races for my top 10 endurance sports lessons. I started last year in a big hole thanks to an interstate relocation and return to full-time employment. Essentially my off season never happened. I found myself struggling to start some meaningful …

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Improving Sleep for Triathletes

Leave a Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

I’m starting a new weekly post called the 4th Sport. It’s designed to be a short hint, tip, hack or link that gives an idea or fact that may propel you a bit further on your triathlon journey. We’ll start with sleep. Odds are that you’re doing it wrong or maybe you could, with a …

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Going Beyond the Sprint

1 Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

Every Fall I try to go long. Usually it’s a running event like Triple Lakes trail marathon, Medoc trail marathon or Crooked Road 24 hour ultra. This year I was thinking about doing something different. I was thinking about going for some serious triathlon distance. I started looking at races and kind of sort of …

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Open Water Swim Progress

Leave a Comment / Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

For some time now I’ve been looking to up my triathlon game. I want to go longer and move up to the international and half iron distances. Going longer means open water swimming. Going longer means getting over my fear of open water swimming. If you read my Barberitos Sprint Triathlon race report, you heard …

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The Do-Over Month

Leave a Comment / Gear, Nutrition, Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

Welcome to February or as I like to call it the “do-over” month. You know how it works. In December, you tell yourself that come the New Year things will be different. You’re going to be more serious about workouts, eat a more nutritious diet, keep an up-to-date workout log, etc. Then you look at …

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2014 Top 10 Endurance Sports Lessons

Leave a Comment / Gear, How To, Nutrition, Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

It’s time once more for my top 10 endurance sports lessons from last year. My 2014 race season began in March with the St. Paddy’s Day Dash & Bash, Greenville, SC, and ended in November with the Crooked Road 24 Hour Ultra, Rocky Mount, VA. In between were multiple 5K races, three sprint triathlons, my …

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Wrecker of Shuffles

1 Comment / Gear, Sports Training / By Alfred Dockery

If I hadn’t already picked Stumble Thru as my Medoc trail name this year I would completely go with Shuffle Wrecker. In a two-week period I managed to wreck, destroy, ruin, render inoperative or otherwise trash two iPod shuffles. What was the method of destruction: fire, impact, drop from a great height, submersion into deep …

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