Why Silver Wolf Fitness Came to Be
My name is Wolf Skafte-Zauss, the founder and I have been an athlete for as long as I can remember, at now 66 that is a while! However when I got into triathlons I did have my work cut out for me.
About 20 years ago or thereabouts my son an I decided to enter the Canberra 70.3 Ironman (1.9km swim, 90km bike ride and 21km run). We gave ourselves nearly 9 months training to get ready for it. Alex, my son is a good swimmer, reasonable bike rider and poor runner, whereby I’m a lousy swimmer, actually I couldn’t swim a 25m pool length without reverting to breaststroke, pretty good cyclist and good runner. We both completed the 70.3 in 2004 in around 6 hours.
Since this time I have been hooked on tris and during the season I compete in a triathlon every month, however usually in the sprint distance now (750m swim, 20km ride and 5km run), I know pretty easy going, however I am considering to step up to the standard (previously know as Olympic distance), which is a 1.5km swim, 40km ride and 10km run.
Triathlons of course require training in three disciplines and a bit of weight training as well. So my approach is reasonably simply:
- swim twice a week
- ride twice a week
- run twice a week
Throughout this website I will elaborate on my training plan further but here are some notes on my bike training.
Bike Training
Since I consider the open road to be a dangerous place to be for cycling I do most of my riding on the mountain bike (MTB) right here in the Dungog Common. We are extremely lucky to have such fantastic facilities right at our door step, in actual fact we go for a ride, with our dogs every Friday morning.
And the the other standard ride is a gravel bike ride on Sunday mornings unless it’s the off-season where I go for a long run in the Common because I like to participate in half marathons during the triathlon off-season.
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