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Foreword Scott Tinley
Endurance and multisport athletes are a dedicated bunch. Whether they arerunning marathons, racing through ocean swims, pedaling over mountains, orcompeting in triathlons or duathlons, most of these athletes are not contentjust to finish. Their challenge is to cover the distance with maximum speed.
In Endurance Athletes Edge, author Marc Evans guides these seriouscompetitors toward high-level fitness, flawless technique, and superiorcompetitive performance. Selected as the USA National Triathlon Team coach andmanager in 1989 and 1990, Evans has helped countless athletes move theirperformance standards ever higher. Through years of working with top athletes,such as Scott Tinley, he has developed a program that produces outstandingresults in training and competition.
Here, Evans teaches readers the most efficient swimming, cycling, and runningtechniques through numerous photographs and 50 performance drills. He includesprescriptions for strength training, flexibility, and nutrition, as well asadvice for mental training and race preparation.
Athletes and coaches alike will value the many effective training tables andcharts carefully developed by Evans. He provides a series of templates thatenable readers to customize training schedules. The result is a week-by-weektraining prescription for each sport, including what percentage of the trainingshould be done in each of four intensity zones. Readers can simply refer tohandy pace charts to match their effort to the prescribed intensity levels. Thespecial, systematic table of periodization makes this difficult concept easy toapply, helping readers to reach peak fitness at just the right time for majorcompetitions.
About the Author
Marc Evans is a pioneer in coaching endurance athletes. He got his startin 1981 when he founded Triathletics West and became triathlons firstprofessional coach. Since then he has coached professional and age group Ironmanwinners, national champions, and hundreds of other top endurance athletes aroundthe world. In 1989 Evans was named USA National Triathlon Coach for the firstWorld Triathlon Championships in Avignon, France. The following year he wasappointed coach of the USA triathlon team at the Elite Performance TestingSeries held at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
Evans is the president of Endurance Sport Technology Group, Inc. (ESTG), aresearch, design, and engineering company that specializes in sports trainingproducts. Well-known for developing the table of periodization, Evans continuesto create new training techniques for both recreational and elite enduranceathletes. He was presented the American Medical Athletic Associations Awardof Excellence in 1992, and he was named Coach of the Year in 1990 by SECURAInsurance Company.
Evans lives in northern California/Nevada, where he enjoys telemark skiing,swimming, cycling, and hiking with his chocolate Labrador, Edge.
Table of Contents
Part I: Planning Your Program
Chapter 1. Energy for Multi-Endurance Sports
Chapter 2. Training Volume and Periodization
Part II: Technique and Training
Chapter 3. Swimming
Chapter 4. Cycling
Chapter 5. Running
Chapter 6. Supplemental Training
Chapter 7. Designing Your Training Program
Part III: Sharpening Your Edge
Chapter 8. Fueling the Body
Chapter 9. Preparing the Mind
Chapter 10. Competing: Putting the Pieces Together
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