Inside Triathlon Training Diar [Paperback]

Joe Friel (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 235 pages
• Publisher: VeloPress (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884737145
• ISBN-13: 978-1884737145
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,997,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

"Joe Friel has trained endurance athletes since 1980. His clients include elite amateur and professional road cyclists, mountain bikers, and triathletes and duathletes located around the world. He has a masters degree in exercise science, is an Elite-level USA Cycling Coach, and serves on the USA Triathlon Coaching Certification Committee.

Joe is the author of The CompuTrainer Workout Manual, The CyclistÂ’s Training Bible, and The TriathleteÂ’s Training Bible. He is a contributing editor to Inside Triathlon and VeloNews and frequently writes feature stories for Performance Conditioning for Cycling. He has written a weekly fitness column for the Fort Collins Coloradoan newspaper since 1981.

As an age-group competitor, Joe is a Colorado State Masters Triathlon champion, a Rocky Mountain region and Southwest region duathlon age-group champion, and is a perennial USA Triathlon All-American duathlete. A member of several national duathlon teams, Joe is a top five contender in world class events. In addition, he competes in road running and United States Cycling Federation races.

Joe speaks at workshops around the country on training and racing for endurance athletes and provides consulting services for corporations in the fitness industry. For information on coaching, speaking, or consulting services, contact him by email at [e-mail] or fax him at 970-204-4221.

From his home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Fort Collins, Colorado, Joe enjoys mountain biking in the foothills with his wife Joyce, trail running with friends, and riding with his son Dirk, a professional bike racer."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The right idea, June 14, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Inside Triathlon : Training Diary : A 52 Week Log of Your Triathlon or Duathlon Fitness (Spiral-bound)

The training diary has all the right kind of sections for you to fill in - the only problem is there is not enough room - there should only be one page per day. Otherwise it serves the purpose if you want to discipline yourself and track your training progression/development.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but used to be better, February 28, 2003

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Adam Leigland (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside Triathlon Training Diary (Spiral-bound)

I've been using the Inside Triathlon journal for 4 or 5 years, and have been pleased with it. The most recent edition, however, has a new format that I just don't like. The editors stuck goofy pictures at the top of each page, and took space away from the notes section. There is now hardly enough room to even describe my route, let alone describe the workout in any meaningful way. I am so disappointed that I doubt I'll buy this journal again.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good diary, cannot write on flap!!, October 26, 2003

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Heather (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inside Triathlon Training Diary (Spiral-bound)

I am a new multi-sport athlete who LOVES to collect data. This diary is perfect; it doesn't provide tons of space for each day, which forces me to think about what I really want to include. My main complaint - it has an outside flap, on which you are to write your goals and objectives. I have tried many different pens and cannot get any to write on the foolish thing, so I have HALF of each of my goals and objectives on the flap and then they trail off to nothing. Less than motivational!

Besides that, though, the diary is very nice. I already have Friel's Triathlon Bible, though - without it, I would be pretty much lost. He DOES give brief explanations of how to plan a season in the diary, but not much more than that.