Keeping the motivation to get up in the morning is tough. Making it to a packed pool with various grannies doing breast stroke in the fast lane this time of year isn’t great. So just targeting a 2k swim each time might not help you build your stamina or improve Read more…
Running and cycling to work as part of your daily commute is truly a gift. You get to travel for free with complete control over your timings and include mileage for any training targets that easily fits into the daily grind. The one drawback on this charmed existence however comes Read more…
Commuting to work by bike can be a real bonus for those trying to squeeze in enough training hours for some serious competitions in either triathlon or cycling. With hours spent each day merely reaching our places of work if you can trade these lost moments for quality training you Read more…
This week we provide a product review of Crotch Guard skin care oil from all the guys in our team. Between us on Team Trivelo we have been pretty conventional in our approach to skin protection. Most cycling with some of us still going old school with Vaseline and the Read more…
Over the past couple of weeks there has been a rash of new Facebook profiles with people trying to connect with triathletes. They had been targeting various triathlon groups punting out friend requests. Beware of facebook triathlete strangers anyone using that social platform. Friend requests from strangers Two of our Read more…
In July 2014 the ITU (International Triathlon Union) announced changes to the drafting rules for triathlon events. At the time this caused limited ripples in the triathlon community as we all entered and competed in our planned events. With the ruling becoming affective in 2016 I have seen this topic Read more…
We all focus on our training plans and incremental improvements but should we look to how well we sleep? So, is a lack of sleep affecting you reaching fitness goals? Sleep affecting your fitness & health Not getting enough sleep can seriously impede your health performance. Reading this and thinking Read more…
For our blog this week we are lucky enough to be be doing a review of the MassageTech MT-Sport revolutionary fitnesss aid. We have been testing this for the last few weeks to support our team in their winter training. The MT-Sport is a compact electric pad that vibrates at Read more…
Commuting to work never seems to get any easier whatever your choice of motorised transport happens to be as the roads become more busy and roadwork’s a more frequent occurrence. This has lead to an explosion in the number of commuter cyclists ditching the fossil fuelled vehicles and donning the lycra Read more…
New bikes are in truth pretty expensive and difficult to sneak past the finance police at home. Funding your next purchase can be a challenge. We at Trivelo obviously offer you a platform to sell your used bikes to help make this happen but that may not be enough to Read more…