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Trismarter Run Analysis Part 1: Body Position

By Lee Gardner | Published: May 2, 2012
For athletes seeking to make improvements in their running form, Trismarter offers a run analysis service. The basis of our running form philosophy is that all movement while running is focused towards a common goal of forward propulsion. This simply means we take into account the entire body position and its movement at every stage [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 8

By Lee Gardner | Published: March 5, 2012
We woke up on day eight feeling a little tired, but also feeling energized. Knowing that this was the last day of the camp, we all wanted to go for broke, work hard, and enjoy our time together as a team. Starting with our final swim, we rolled out of the condo long before the [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 7

By Lee Gardner | Published: March 4, 2012
It’s always interesting to see how the excitement of a great workout and the team dynamic can create a false sense of invincibility. Day seven would prove to be an eye opening day for us. We began at the pool again with a 4500 yard set that included another 1000 TTT. Danielle and Louis raced [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 6

By Lee Gardner | Published: March 3, 2012
Six days into our camp began with a 4500 yard swim featuring a blistering set of 16×100’s at race pace efforts and very little rest. This was Lou’s favorite workout for the week, and for good reason. His focus on swimming this season has been considerable, and he’s made some great strides in getting up [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 5

By Lee Gardner | Published: March 2, 2012
Day five will go down in the books as an epic day of epic days! The plan was to get in the big run for the camp by running from one end of Trail 100 in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve to the other, and then back again. About a 20 mile trek. We were up [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 4

By Lee Gardner | Published: March 1, 2012
A few weeks prior to our trip, Lou emailed me about whether or not we could incorporate a local race into our camp. It turned out that the Susan M Turley Foundation was hosting a series of running races while we were in the area. We decided that we would all jump into the 10k [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 3

By Lee Gardner | Published: February 29, 2012
The first very big day of training came on Day 3. We began the day with 4100 yards of mostly aerobic swimming. Not extremely challenging but good solid work. Attention to detail was the focus, making sure that both Danielle and Louis were swimming consistently with good form and at a constant pace per 100 [...]
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Trismarter Elite Squad’s AZ Training Camp

By Lee Gardner | Published: February 28, 2012
The Trismarter Elite Team Arizona Training Camp commenced on February 15, 2012 in Phoenix, AZ. The purpose of the camp was to allow the athletes an opportunity to train some big hours in warm weather during the winter. Attending the camp were members of Trismarter’s elite squad, Louis Tafuto and Danielle Kehoe, and myself, Trismarter [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 2

By Lee Gardner | Published: February 28, 2012
Day 2 in Arizona found us up early before the sunrise for a solid 4800 yards. The pool is outdoors and fortunately it was heated a bit since the early morning temperatures hovered around 45 degrees F. Here’s the whole swim workout: Warm-up: 400 swim + 100 kick 400 drill (single arm sequence as 50drill/50swim) [...]
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Trismarter’s AZ Training Camp, Day 1

By Lee Gardner | Published: February 27, 2012
After arriving the night before the first day of the camp, and getting what can only be called a fairly crummy night of sleep, we gathered first thing in the morning for our the camp’s official first workout: a one hour shake-out run on the desert trails of nearby Dreamy Draw Recreation area. The purpose [...]
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