Linsey Corbin has been one of the most consistent professional triathletes of all time, qualifying for Kona 14 times, winning eight Ironman events, and managing to show up year after year even while dealing with Injury. Linsey walks us through her process for reviewing the past season and looking forward to the next year, and she shows us how she bridged that sport-specific process to her life outside of sport.

After we chat about year-in-review processes, we answer two questions from our Campfire Endurance athletes, one about knowing WHEN you should train again after a difficult session, and also if using a little barefoot running can help your run form.

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Many endurance athletes think that the path to success is a kind of inflexible and unrelenting grind, resulting in all sorts of toxic sayings such as “HTFU,” “No Pain No Gain,” or “Rise and Grind,” but the best performers in the world have a much more compassionate, curious, and patient approach.

We sit down with Annick Chalier, who has been a Campfire athlete for over a decade and a Campfire coach for the past two years. Annick came to endurance sports after deciding to get sober, spent some time as a triathlete, and then found her endurance calling, cycling. She has raced professionally domestically and abroad, won the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association’s road championship in the elite women’s field, and ridden her bike farther than this particular podcaster can count.

Annick’s journey inspired our topic today, as in her early years in the sport she could be somewhat severe towards herself during training and racing. We talk about how that changed and her consistent progress towards being happier, faster, and healthier.

After we wrap up that conversation, we give you some ideas as to how you can set yourself up for success this coming winter when you are forced to take the bike indoors.

It’s a tale as old as…well, it’s probably around 40 years old, but for a sport as young as ours, that’s fairly venerable: a hard-working triathlete puts in their time over the course of a season, qualifies for Kona (or Nice, which is a really great site for a world championships, go ahead and @ us), and then, through a combination of poorly timed heat acclimation, arduous travel, wide-eyed enthusiasm, panic training, expo smorgasbord, and terror ends up performing far below their potential. Today we’ll be talking about how to navigate the veritable gauntlet of triathlon’s big show and perform to the best of your ability.

Fatigue resistance is an idea that has been around for a long time, but it’s having a bit of a moment recently. A few companies are trying to develop fancy metrics like “durability” to measure (or, um, monetize) this concept.

We don’t need to monetize it. Fatigue resistance is a simple concept, one that it is easy to track and train. Listen here to learn how.

Chris sits down with elite amateur and Campfire Coach Emily Arcuri to talk about training and racing all the way through 32 weeks of pregnancy. Emily offers three different periods of her journey and thoughts about what you should expect if you decide to follow her example.