The Traathlon Show, 289.

Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome back to another episode of That Traathlon Show, the podcast

presented by Scientific Triathlon.com. I'm my host Michael and on today's episode, I interview

Val Burke. Val is a New Zealand-based triathlon and endurance sports coach with a background

in exercise science and physiology. She coaches aid group athletes, but also some high-level professionals, with perhaps the most

well-known being a New Zealand professional triathlete Braden Curry.

In this interview with Val, we go into a number of interesting topics, including just for

example, strength training for triathletes and how to find your race target paces and powers as well as

as how to set your training zones based on metabolic testing and lots of other things so stay

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