Purplepatch Fitness

Following a really successful collective winter of training for the pro team, I was excited to see how they would fare in early season racing.

Our custom embroidered 2XU Transistion bags have just arrived at our store (watch the stitching in action), and I wanted to remind everyone that in addition the Transistion Bag, our 2013 Tri-Kits are also avaialble. 

The journey continues.  We’re proud to announce the next step in the season long progression: Sustainable Power and Race Specific Phase 1.

I don't write a blog for every purplepatch pro win at an Ironman or Ironman 70.3, but Emma-Kate Lidbury's wire-to-wire victory deserves special mention as her story holds great lessons and inspiration on courage, belief and staying level-headed in the eye of a storm.  You can read in the race reports that Emma-Kate had a good 'front of race' swim, followed by a very strong bike, which provided real estate for her to control a solid run against a fleet-footed field.  It was a courageous and tough race, and certainly one that deserved the top finish, but that isn't really the story,

Many of you will have seen purplepatch pro Jesse Thomas come 'oh so close' to a major victory at the recent Oceanside Ironman 70.3.  Coming off the bike with the main chase pack, Jesse was a part of a 4 man break that quickly caused a pack of 15 to dwindle.  With just over half of the run gone, Jesse broke away and chased down the loan leader, taking the lead with about 4 miles to go.  On his heels was Andy Potts, one of the world's best and previous 4-time winner of this race.

Wondering what to wear after peeling off the snazzy purplepatch triathlon or cycling kit ?  One of our super-comfy, killer T-Shirts and a hat, of course!!  

We're happy to annouce that casual gear now available for purchase.  Hat's & T's for both Men & Women.  Check 'em out the casual collection here...

As you may well have noticed, I have spent much of the last couple weeks in Hawaii, leading the winter purplepatch training camp.  I wanted to share a review and insight into both the pro and amateur camps.

I am happy to announce that the 16-week, second part of the Functional Strength Season Series; Synchronization & Power, is available.  Purchase now on the Functional Strength Page!! You'll find “Synchronization & Power”  as option in the drop-down widget in the left hand navigation bar.  For this program, we will deliver the functional strength program the same way we deliver your current workouts so all your training can be in a single platform, that is on PEAR or Training Peaks.
 

With much anticipation, the 2013 Cycling Kits are here !!  We once again partnered with Squadra to deliver these premium kits, but have revised the custom design.  We are very happy with them and we hope you will be too.  They can be ordered today, but will be delivered in 4-6 weeks.

Education is an important aspect of the purplepatch experience, and it is also highly valued by our partners.  Our friends at Tower-26 (Gerry Rodrigues) presented a lecture on triathlon swimming earlier this year and we want to make sure the purplepatch community is aware of it.  A word of warning, the camera work on the first three or four videos is a wee bit distracting, but stick it out, and focus on what Gerry is saying, the content is great.  The cameraman gets settled down and the remaining videos are much improved.

Its been an exciting past 2 or 3 weeks with the launching of two new purplepatch programs! Along with these new programs, I wanted to bring to your attention two items to help you get the most of your purplepatch experience.

It is HERE!  After a massive amount of planning, working and a lot of filming, we now have a completely new and evolved Functional Strength approach for 2013.  I am incredibly excited about this new program, as it is one that will take you through your entire season. This program is designed to shift emphasis and focus, evolving with the natural progression of the year.  For this program we teamed up with Dr.