by Mike Hermanson | Jan 15, 2020 | Progressive Endurance
I am coaching Kellie Jones this year for some 70.3 races and a marathon this year. She is also using a Stryd power meter on the run to help me gather more insight into her running. I had noticed that her metrics seems to indicate that she isn’t running very...
by Mike Hermanson | Dec 11, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
Last weekend, Steve Moors, took part in the Ironman 70.3 Indian Wells race. It was his first race since coming back to Progressive Endurance for coaching when he was training for a Full Ironman distance race a few years ago. He came late in the year after doing IM...
by Mike Hermanson | Nov 9, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
I did a run gait analysis with Hanna today and got pretty good results. We strapped a Stryd power meter to her show to not only get visual improvement in her stryd, but also some hard, objective numbers. Here are what some of the numbers that a Stryd power meter...
by Mike Hermanson | Nov 2, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
I (Mike Hermanson) met up with Stephen Moors to help with his swim stroke after taking a couple years off to run some ultra marathons. This swim stroke analysis took about an hour and we made some pretty good improvements as seen in the video below. We focused our...
by Mike Hermanson | Oct 29, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
Green River Lake Course description: The entire course will take place within Green River Lake State Park. There is lots of camping at the park, but the campsite is a popular place to stay for people on the weekend. If you want to camp, I suggest you book a site...
by Mike Hermanson | Oct 29, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
The entire event will take place within the Capitol View Park Swim: The swim will be in the Kentucky River directly across from the boat ramp. The swim will be half upstream and half down stream. The river makes a sharp turn where the swim will take place, which does...
by Mike Hermanson | May 22, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
Last weekend, lots of athletes went to Chattanooga, TN to race the 2019 70.3 Chattanooga triathlon. Progressive Endurance had 2 athletes race at this venue. I want to take some time to review their power files from the bike and go over some of the things that they...
by Mike Hermanson | Apr 23, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
On April 15th, Isaac Blackman ran the Boston Marathon for the first time. His previous best marathon was the one he trained for on his own in 2017 to qualify the 2019 Boston Marathon. What made this race extra exciting for me as a coach (as if having an athlete race...
by Mike Hermanson | Feb 18, 2019 | Progressive Endurance
I’ve been doing run gait (or run form) analysis on people for a few years now. I have seen pretty good success with the athletes I’ve worked with in the past by just recording them before and after some drills and form work and comparing the videos...
by Mike Hermanson | Nov 7, 2018 | Progressive Endurance
This article was used by permission. The original can be found here. Triathlon is full of amazing people with amazing stories. One of my favorite things about the sport is that every year I meet more people with more stories. Stories of how and why they got started...
