Multi-Sport Racing
Duathlon Training and Racing for Ordinary Mortals
From the author of Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals®, this is the first modern guide to training for and enjoying the run-bike-run race that has become USA-Triathlon’s “growth sport:” The Duathlon. With the participation of USA-Triathlon, which provided a chapter about its duathlon-promotion program launched in 2012, author Steven Jonas has penned the first modern guide for the aspiring multi-sport racer who simply wants to “Do the Du” (no swimming required). Well known for Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals®, The Essential Triathlete, and his USA-Triathlon Magazine column “Ordinary Mortals®: Talking Triathlon with Steve Jonas,” Dr. J. offers:
· A brief history of duathlon and look ahead at the sport’s exciting development
· How to find and choose your races
· Four 13-week training programs
· What you need to know about technique and equipment
· Enjoying your “day at the races”
As John Hanc, contributing editor, Runner’s World and author of The Coolest Race on Earth has said: “Dr. Steven Jonas is the author of one of the best triathlon training books ever written. Now, he offers his unique perspective as both an endurance athlete and a physician and preventive medicine expert to the duathlon. That’s a powerful combination. For those who would like to, as they say, ‘do the du,’ Dr. Jonas’s book is the one for you.” (Guildford, CT: FalconGuides, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press, March, 2012.)
101 Ideas and Insights for Triathletes and Duathletes
101 Ideas and Insights for Triathletes and Duathletes can be considered a sequel to Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals (WW Norton, 1986, 2nd ed., 2006), which was the very first book designed for beginners and recreational triathletes. In 101 Ideas, I offer comprehensive guidance for both beginners and recreational multi-sport athletes based on my now extensive experience in both triathlon and duathlon: 2011 marked my 29th season in both sports with 220-plus races combined. The nine chapters address mobilizing motivation, getting started, the race options, training, equipment, the day at the races (but not the night at the opera), nutrition, injury prevention and management, and staying with it.Skip Gilbert, USA Triathlon Chief Executive Officer, 2005-2010, had this to say about the book: “I first met Steve Jonas in 2005 and he is without question one of the most knowledgeable experts in the industry. This book should be a must read for anyone looking to gain significant insight into how to better embrace triathlon, duathlon, and the multisport lifestyle.” Hunter Kemper, the only three-time Team USA triathlon Olympian, said: "Steve Jonas shows us clearly just how wide-open multi-sport racing is for anybody who wants to try it." And finally, my good friend Dr. Don Ardell, national and world age-group champion in both triathlon and duathlon, and internationally known as the “Dean of Wellness,” said: “If you have a question about how to prepare for a triathlon or duathlon that Dr. Jonas, has not addressed, you are probably worrying too much.”
Triathloning for Ordinary Mortals®:
And Doing the Duathlon Too.
20th Anniversary 2nd ed., New York: WW Norton, 2006
The classic beginner's guide to the sport. Over the years, it has sold over 46,000 copies and used by many more thousands of people.
This book is thus one of the best-selling triathlon books of all time. It will help you cross the finish line – and have fun doing it – without turning your life upside down along the way. It incorporates my concepts and programs for training, from the Sprint to the ironman distances. It offers my ideas on everything from choosing your first race to selecting and choosing your equipment. My 31 years of experience clearly illustrate how rewarding and surprisingly painless undertaking multi-sport racing can be. I am a former non-athlete who began running in his mid-40s and did his first triathlon at age 46. Aged 77, at the beginning of the 2014 season I had done 238 multi-sport races including 145+ triathlons.
As Dr. Don Ardell, known as the “Dean of Wellness” internationally, and a national and international age-group champion in both triathlon and duathlon, says in his Foreword, the book “is designed expressly with the Triathlon Everyman and Everywoman in mind. . . . There may be something you need to know about getting started in triathlons or a few ways to make triathloning easier, safer, and more enjoyable that Steve Jonas has not thought about and addressed in this book. Maybe, but I doubt it.”
Championship Triathlon Training
Dedication, passion, obsession — for serious endurance athletes, coaches, duathletes, and triathletes, the quest for improvement never ends. Knowing they can shave time from previous performances, they seek out the latest in research and training techniques. Championship Triathlon Training provides you with the same advanced conditioning concepts and programming used by today's elite triathletes. By understanding the science behind the principles, you will incorporate physiology, biomechanics, nutrition, and injury prevention into your regimen to address your specific needs and the demands of competition.
The principal author, George Dallam, PhD, is the longtime coach of Hunter Kemper, the only U.S. triathlete to have been on all four U.S. Olympic triathlon teams and the top U.S. finisher, twice. Dr. Dallam was the founding member of the National Coaching Commission of USA Triathlon, the sport's national governing body, and was USA Triathlon's first national team coach. In 2005 he was USA Triathlon's Elite Coach of the Year. He is an associate professor of exercise, science, and health promotion at Colorado State University at Pueblo.
As the book’s endorsers say on the back cover:
“In Championship Triathlon Training, George Dallam and Steven Jonas combine the latest research and cutting-edge programming to create the definitive training resource for serious triathletes." Siri Lindley, Two-Time Triathlon World Champion, Winner of 13 World Cup Races, Coach of Olympic Medalists.
“Championship Triathlon Training covers all of the important aspects of triathlon, including those that are often overlooked: strength, nutrition, speed, technique, and mental training. I highly recommend it." Linda Cleveland, MS, CSCS USA Triathlon Coach Development Manager
"By combining experience and science. George Dallam has developed advanced training programs for the world's top-ranked male triathlete. With co-author Steven Jonas, a regular triathlon columnist and expert, George shares those programs in Championship Triathlon Training so that you can benefit from the sport's best."
Gale Bernhardt, multi-published author and Coach of World Championship and Olympic Triathletes