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D3 Athletes in the News

Melissa Neal - IMCDA finisher
Joe Pozsgai - IMUSA finisher!
Ali Winslow - 3rd at the Patriot Half
Matt Given - Raced to a new IM PR of 10:31 at IM Lake Placid – 11 minutes from Kona
Stefan Ekstrom - Raced to a 10:46 for at Sweden Iron Distance
Jodee's Lammert - Won the Aqua-bike division at Loveland Lake to Lake
Kathleen Steffe - 3rd AG at the 5430 Boulder Peak, 4th AG at 5430 LC
Martina Young - 5th AG at 5430 Boulder Peak
Julia Purrington - Made USAT World Team for Short Course



Stefan riding strong at the Sweden Iron distance.
The Three Ingredients Needed to Start a Fire: Oxygen, Heat and Fuel

WARNING: If you are not serious about getting faster, you may find the following content boring.

Instead of the usual drivel about me going on about some new way to get faster, I decided to tell you about some real life improvements we have seen this year at D3 Multisport. I could talk about the newest heart rate training rage or the newest feature that I can use on my Ergomo Power meter, etc, but let’s get down to the facts and see what all this training really does when you APPLY it! That’s the point right? I write a bunch of stuff, you follow it, and viola` you are faster. Sounds simple, so let’s see if that’s true.

At D3 we think that there are 3 basic things that have to happen in order to get faster:

  1. Having the right training plan!
  2. Following the plan; be consistent with your training
  3. Executing the plan on race day
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