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Fluid athlete Laura Torres by any measure has had a massive year results wise in Triathlon, becoming a World ITU Champion and NZ National Champion and winning overall female at both 70.3 Cairns and Western Sydney. It wasn’t always the case though especially on the international stage, and it took some rethinking of how Laura trained following Mooloolaba Olympic in March this ye ...

Good days, bad days… regardless which way it went you must learn from both.  Good days learnings are sweet, bad days are deeply imprinted in your mind.    There’s something inspiring about Triathlon that keeps me gravitating towards it.  The concept of “triad” goes beyond the obvious Swim-Bike-Run triad to a subtler Physical-Mental-Spiritual triad. You can think of yourself ...

Its been a big 6weeks for our squad program and athletes who represented their countries at the 3 main world championships, 70.3 Worlds in South Africa, ITU Worlds on the Gold Coast and Ironman Worlds in Hawaii. As a coach I have been preparing athletes for World Level racing for over 2decades and whilst we have accumulated close to 20 podiums (Top 3) at championships includin ...

Journey to my first Ironman - race day (finally!) "You never know what will happen on race day..." Perhaps the most over-used phrase in race week. We use it to both give ourselves hope, but also to downplay our expectations: "...everything might fall exactly into place and I'll have the best race ever" "...everything might be going right and then I'll get a flat. I'll drop ...

The original plan was to race Cairns as preparation for Malaysia where I would try to get a chance to qualify for Kona.  Little did I know Cairns would be it. This started 3 years ago after 2014 IM Busselton.  At that point it was clear that the aerobic condition and endurance were there but still need to work on my speed and pacing.  I was “Juan” speed Juan, regardless the di ...

Marathon / Half Marathon Winter Run Program Are you a runner wanting to improve your race speed or a triathlete wanting to improve your run strength over Winter? Fluid has a targeted 3month Winter Run program to improve your endurance and speed. We will target a Half or Full marathon goal at the program completion with shorter scheduled training races along the way.    Key ...

2017 was a year to forget health wise for me. Going from never having had a health scare in my life to having two major episodes in the space of 2days and a serious bike accident requiring surgery was a bit of a shock. Once the dust had settled following months of rehab and many many visits to the great people at the Alfred Hospital in follow up tests monitoring my health, I g ...

Its been 9.5weeks since Lukas Hoffman broke his collarbone after being blown off his bike in atrocious race conditions at the Portarlington triathlon back in March. Next weekend Lukas races the Kraichgau 70.3 in Germany. Lukas's comeback to full training has been pretty remarkable. Just the day after the crash out of hospital Lukas told me he had been scouring tri forums looki ...

Season Review by Coach Foz...   I took the opportunity to update the results for the year and reflect back on how the program faired in 2017/18. Below is a bit of a snapshot of what our Fluid/MTC athletes got up to over the calendar year. Hope you enjoy it. New Athletes and Beginners Over the season Fluid/MTC ran three courses, introducing 17 budding triathletes to the sport ...

2XU Tri Series Race 6 - Wrap. Well its been a very long season, and finally we got to the last race of the 2XU series. It was a Sprint / Olympic event (qualifier). Fluid/MTC had good numbers competing over both races. FIRST TIME FINISHERS **1athlete competing in her first ever tri - Karly-Anne Davies **6athletes doing their first Olympic - Tenille Oien, Andrée Parker, Matt J ...