Swimming’s greatest innovation

Eight-six, 85, 84… log onto the website of any Ironman event and you’ll see a count day to race day. Even with nearly one hundred days to go until the 2025 edition of Ironman Wales, it’s a reminder th

There’s one thing you should know about me before we go any further –and that is that when it comes to my swim kit, I’m very fussy. Very, very, fussy. Make no mistake, for a wetsuit or a set of goggle

Dissecting the physiology of a 10-mile TT minute by minute, Steve Shrubsall suffers for the sake of science

01 Use small bits of time You may be strapped for time to get in your training as it is, so the thought of adding S&C into the mix is overwhelming. S&C doesn’t have to be multiple hour-long sessions e

Call me a masochist, a dopamine junky, or just a good old-fashioned weirdo – I’ll happily answer to all of the above – but I love nothing more than to find myself teetering on the verge of complete ph

Water is leaking into my goggles. I blink a couple of times and try to figure out which lens is the culprit. Both? It’s strange, as these goggles have done many miles in training and never leaked befo