Mike has been training and racing in endurance and multi-sport events since 2018! This year, he took on his first Olympic and 70.3 distance events. When you first meet Mike, you are quickly infected with his great energy and positive attitude. After several occurrences with him, you realize this is his every day norm and you can’t help but smile and walk away with an uplifted spirit after every conversation with him. Mike brings this same energy and positive attitude into his training and every race.

The benefits of strength training are endless, from both a performance perspective and an overall lifestyle, quality of life and longevity perspective. Strength training is an essential component to reaching your highest performance in endurance sport. Throughout the off-season, we have greater opportunity to reduce volume and consistency to an extent in our swimming, biking and/or running, while bringing greater focus to our biggest areas of opportunity and placing a heavier emphasis on strength training. The goal is to build up our muscular strength in the off-season and then maintain these gains in-season, resulting in stronger outputs and greater performances.

Aside from receiving a finisher time and wearing the required bib or timing chip, most athletes do not know the details that go into providing timely, successful and accurate timing for races. When timing is flawless, these are the only details you should notice other than running over the timing mats at each split of the race. Read more for tips and insights from Pro Timer, Ryan Morris, on what goes into timing a race, how to better understand your timing results and a pain point with many athletes on why your Garmin or Smart Watch may sometimes show a discrepancy from your final scored race results.