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Sensible, world-class triathlon and endurance sport guidance arriving every Thursday. I deliver the results you want while helping you avoid training information overwhelm, bad coaching advice, and analysis paralysis. And I do it with a sense of humor, reminding ya'll to take your sport seriously...but hold it lightly.

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Triathlon Needs Only Two Zones 🤯

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 23 APR 2026 A new paradigm for prescribing intensity? Chris' note - today in The Infirmary we posit that perhaps triathlon needs way fewer zones than some of the zones system out there. If you want to go on a truly deep exploration of this "revolutionary" assertion, go ahead and...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 16 APR 2026 A customary pre-ride tradition, but caffeine can be put to better use It was 2:34 PM, ten days before my last 70.3 of the year, and I was breaking my commitment to stick to only two cups of coffee a day. Great way to establish credibility, right? And you thought you...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 9 APRIL 2026 Physiological Testing and Technique Analysis Come to YOU Yup, Campfire Endurance, powered by Chris Bagg Coaching Group (wait, is there a rebrand going on?) has procured a van in order to travel to you, removing the logistical puzzle of where testing happens. Need to...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 2 APRIL 2026 Campfire Athlete Sara K. crossing the line in Oceanside Chris’ note: it’s race season! We had several athletes hit the North American triathlon opener at Oceanside 70.3 last weekend, and the beginning of race season is always a good chance to remind yourself that a...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 12 MAR 2026 Super Coach Ryan Bolton New Pod Day: Coach Ryan Bolton on Metabolic Efficiency Ryan Bolton is an Olympian, competing at the first Olympic Triathlon in 2000, and he is also a long course champ, winning Ironman Lake Placid in 2002. He coaches America’s top-ranked...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 5 MAR 2026 What is it you love about movement, and which manners of movement speak to you on a subconscious, silent level? Put another way, what modes of movement fire your imagination and whisper, quietly, this is you. What are the pursuits and activities and sports that you just...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 19 FEB 2026 THREE Spots Left For CAMP! Last week we said four but now we are down to our last THREE SPOTS, having expanded from 16 available to 18. This is going to be an amazing camp, with guest coaches David Tilbury-Davis and Cam Wynhof. We're going back to all dinners AND all...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 19 FEB 2026 FOUR Spots Left For CAMP! This year's tentative schedule Last week we said six but now we are down to our last FOUR SPOTS, having expanded from 16 available to 18. This is going to be an amazing camp, with guest coaches David Tilbury-Davis and Cam Wynhof. We're going...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 12 FEB 2025 Gordo Byrn on Building Sustainable, Lifelong Endurance It doesn't have to feel like this Have you ever experienced heading out for a ride or run that you used to be able to complete with ease, only to discover that…something is wrong? Your heartbeat feels too high,...

Welcome to our weekly gathering around the campfire. This free communique will level up your endurance skills in ten minutes, twice a month. Forwarded this message? You can sign up for these emails by clicking here. 5 FEB 2026 Camp Coach David Tilbury-Davis Named in Triathlete's "12 Coaches You Need to Know." David doing what he's done for 31 years: closely monitoring his athletes If you don't know David Tilbury-Davis, you should, is the subtext of the recent Triathlete article about 12...