Purplepatch Fitness

purplepatch Fitness is kicking off the 2013 season with a brand new coaching program starting with the launch of our new Post-Season Program . 

This season we are taking almost 20 athletes to the Hawaii Ironman World Championships, a great group and it will certainly be a fun adventure for all of them.

What are your athletic goals for 2013 ? Picture yourself completing that first long-distance event, setting another PR, or returning from a setback and out on the course competing again.

The first installment of the purplepatch guided plans for 2013 is the Post-Season Program which acts as the perfect bridge following your 2012 racing season to the start of your build for 2013.

Many of the methods we use with the pros, simply don’t apply to busy amateurs.  Despite this, you can succeed and really achieve massive goals, and this blog is going to peel back some of the ‘secrets’

purplepatch athlete Meredith Kessler is having an incredible season. CycleOps sat down with Meredith to ask her a few questions on racing and recovery.

Emotion has a nasty habit of destroying perfect preparations of many athletes. In triathlons, it occurs in the run because that is the last discipline, and where poor pacing in subsequent swim and bike rear their ugly head.  In running races, such as the marathon, it occurs in the latter half of the race, especially if one has poor fitness or pacing is off.  Today, I won’t discuss pacing or training, but the emotional approach to maintaining pace, form, and performance in your running (portion of your) race.  Following are a few simple:

California finally has a landmark Ironman event, with the recent announcement of Ironman Lake Tahoe.