With 3 weeks down the beginners are getting into good routine now with their training. As a group we are running once a week, cycling once a week and swimming once a week. The athletes get their program on Monday and within the program it dictates the additional sessions that they are required to do on their own that week. (These sessions are optional at this stage, but become compulsory as we get fitter and [...]

Saunders Hill The Team Triumph girls are now into week 4 of their quest to complete the Kynsna Forest Marathon in July. Training is going ‘great guns’, and we are starting to see real improvements in fitness levels. The girls are running twice a week with the coach (STeve), doing one leg strength session and running once on their own at this stage. The mid week session is combined with ATC Multisport to give the [...]

Official results are out! And wow, go the Embark Girls! 4 Embark girls in the top 6 places of our 2011 group. An all round great performance, we had 57 finishing out of 59. We are all very sad for Stace and Jo C, who both narrowly missed the bike cut off and were not allowed onto the run course.           You can view the race results by clicking this link http://www.ironman703.co.za/information/records-results [...]

As the current 70.3 Embark athletes excitedly await the big race this weekend, a new bunch of aspiring beginner athletes have joined the Embark Beginners Program. These beginner athletes will learn all about triathlon over the next couple of months, and even participate in a duathlon and a triathlon by the end of July. The beginners will be coached a swim session, a bike session and a run each week and receive a program to [...]

  Stace in transition Congrats to the Embark triathletes that have now been upgraded to 70.3 Half Ironman finishers! What an amazing 6 months of training, racing and most  importantly meeting some wonderful friends. The 4 days in East London was a buzz of excitement and nerves, but before we knew it, it was race day! We had HOT conditions with humidity which made the run quite uncomfortable, but didnt stop the athletes from awesome results. [...]

Team Triaction along with Embark, have chosen their 5 ladies who will receive all the perks of a sponsored athlete, in the quest to complete a marathon in 6 months. These ladies will receive full training kit and race kit from New Balance, sports performance underwear and sports bras from Triumph,  and full coaching from Embark. They will be assessed by the professional sports practitioners from the SPARC sports centre, and receive entries to both [...]

Towards the end of last year, Helen Zille took up the challenge to take part in the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour 2012. The Premiere of the Western Cape will be riding the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour as part of a 24-member team led by Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula to promote the message of anti-doping, and that anyone can take part in a challenging sport if they put in the [...]

With 168 days of training done, we now look at the last 7 days of relax and recovery until the race day! Its been an amazing journey for the beginners who are now all fully fledgded sprint and olympic distance triathlete with one more race to conquer! Next Sunday 22nd Jan is the day! Nerves are all high, but we have done EVERYTHING possible to make sure that race day is seemless. We are just [...]

Today was the final training session before we tackle the big race next week. We did our final sea swim preparation, and boy did we have rough conditions to contend with! Buffalo City can throw any rough sea conditions at us now, as what we practiced in today is going to give us great confidence if the sea is rough. The water was 14 degrees so we were able to get a decent session in. [...]

Today was our final big brick session. We completed a 60km hilly course (this included The Glen and Suikkerbossie) and then we did a 1h off the bike run. I am very happy with the level of fitness of the athletes at this stage, and am holding thumbs for good weather conditions on race day. Its going to be a fantastic weekend of racing and socialising. Just 15 days now until race day, so next week [...]