A2Z Triathlon Coaching

A huge congratulations to who raced at SWYD aquathlon yesterday This doubled as the Welsh championships in which Laura won silver, and home international British champs, with Laura representing Wales for the first time and winning a bronze medal in the process!
Hard work and consistency is really paying off 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🤩

A massive congratulations to who put together a huge performance to achieve a 26minute PB in the Cotswolds yesterday! This is a result that shows just how much commitment and consistency pays off. Excited to see what else Shaz can do this year! 🩵

Congratulations to A2Z superstars Owain and Laura who took on Swansea 70.3 yesterday. Both executed their plans perfectly and learned so much to take forward to their next big goals!
Well done to A2Z’s Jo Jenkins who also took part in the swim leg of the relay 👏🏼
Fabulous work, all 🩵

Good luck to our A2Z superstars taking on Tenby this weekend! Without a doubt, one of the best weekends in the Welsh endurance sport calendar.
Enjoy every second 🌟

A huge shout out to Lowri Roberts, who completed Bustinskin Middle a distance Triathlon this weekend!
Lowri learned lots to take forward to BIG goals later in the season 🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️🩵

A huge congratulations to our A2Z super women who took on Mumbles Sprint Tri and The Roc Wales this weekend…Massive well done to Sian and Katja!

Didn’t Wales provide a crackin’ weekend for it ☀️

Triathlon season gets underway for A2Z triathletes this weekend…
Good luck to our superstars racing at The ROC Wales and Mumbles Sprint Triathlon 🩵
Happy racing and training to everyone getting out in the sunshine ☀️

“Super Ows” - took on Manchester Marathon today.
After a solid few months of consistent training, Ows stuck to his pacing plan to the letter, and achieved his “A” goal of sub 3h30, running a brilliant 3h29:10!
We’ve seen brilliant discipline and commitment from the last few months from Ows, pushing on whilst juggling busy work & family life and managing niggles really well too.
Proud coach - awesome performance 👏🏼🩵

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus! 🌼
Happy St David’s Day!

Are you facing the streets of Tenby at Ironman Wales this year? Let us know if we can support you to face that dragon, and conquer Wales’s biggest triathlon! 🐉
There’s nothing quite like that finish line 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

So when coach Zoe Bluck A2Z Triathlon Coaching says it’s a rest week, I’m not sure she meant go do some altitude training and burn the legs out all week, ooops. 🤷‍♀️⛷️🤣 Sorry coach.

Test week next week will be fun. 🤣🤣

Now I could put some inspirational quote with this…. but sometimes a girl simply needs to do something she loves. What is more inspirational than that????? 💕💕💕

2024 is shaping up to be an awesome year for A2Z Triathletes! We’ve been super quiet on social media, because our athletes have been busy goal setting, getting used to new technology for training, and plugging away at those winter miles.
Here’s to a fantastic 2024 for you 🥂 Let us know if we can support you and your triathlon goals this year 🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼🚴🏽‍♀️🚴🏽🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♂️

A huge congratulations to A2Z Triathlete who has been selected for the British Age Group team to compete at the World Championships next year!

Only 9 months into her triathlon journey, and a year after beating cancer, Laura put herself on a start-line against much more experienced athletes than herself, and defied the odds to qualify 💥

There is so much more to come from this inspirational athlete, I am loving sharing her journey.

Amazing work from A2Z Triathlete in Ironman 70.3 Cascais yesterday. After a phenomenal sub-30minute swim which put her 4th in age group, Angharad put together a brilliant all-around performance to finish top 10 in her AG on her first half iron distance 🏅
Well done Angharad - more to come from this young superstar!

took on another Aquabike 🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️ race in St Neots this week. Laura has had a brilliant year of gaining race experience, making big improvements, and competing at a new level. Exciting times to come for Laura ✨

Four A2Z-coached Triathletes took on their first Ironman Wales on Sunday, and blinkin’ heck did they slay that dragon 🐉

11:38:10
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🚴🏽 6:16:09
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Joe had a brilliantly consistent day across all 3 disciplines for a fantastic Ironman debut!

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🚴🏽 7:26:07
🏃🏽‍♂️ 4:19:08
Arran had so much fun around Tenby, working the crowd and didn’t stop smiling all day. Another fantastic ironman debut!

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🚴🏽‍♀️ 7:42:33
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Rae put together a fantastic all around performance, finishing 6th in her AG and being offered a world championships slot for Nice!! Another incredible debut at the distance

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🚴🏽 8:04:19
🏃🏽‍♂️ 5:29:24
Sion has come a very long way since starting with A2Z triathlon. We started with a sprint and have now worked our way all the way up. So so proud to now say Sion, you are an Ironman.

Each athlete had a strong race plan, stuck to their plan, and didn’t panic when times got tough. Thank you all for trusting the process 🩵

On Friday evening, took on Saundersfoot triathlon. After tough preparation, Laura finished in 10th female with her best all-around triathlon performance to date! Laura is constantly improving and has very exciting times to come.

What a weekend. What a team. One very proud coach over here 🙋🏽‍♀️

Ironman Wales flatlay, feat. the new A2Z suit ready for its debut in Tenby!! A huge thank you to the amazing team at for bringing my dreams to life with this beauty 😍…
Here goes nothing 🤪

So excited to toe the line at Ironman Wales on Sunday, and to share the course with these 4 awesome A2Z triathletes - Joe, Arran, Rae and Sion.
Training is done, we’ve survived taper, race plans are written.
Tenby, we’re on our way! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐉

Another busy weekend for A2Z triathletes!

✨Welsh Champion🏆 ✨
One week after being awesome at Swansea 70.3, Laura St. John continues to defy all the odds - Laura became Welsh aquathlon champion in her age group with a fantastic all around performance!

MJ also raced at the Welsh aquathlon championships, and despite facing a very physical, tough swim, MJ got through the race and put together one of her best ever 5km runs.

Angharad Jones competed in Chester 10k, after a consistent few months of training, Angharad demonstrated that she’s well on the way to being ready for her A race later in the year and learning lots to take forwards.

As always, it’s a total pleasure to work with these awesome athletes who continue to balance busy careers and personal lives with consistent training and ambition to achieve and improve 🩵

Let us know if we can help you on your way to your triathlon goals!

LCW Tenby 2023 - first multi sport event in 4 years and first one at the longest distance.
Was over the moon to head into the final day in 2nd overall, and finish off in 4th behind 3 incredible ladies with the speediest run legs.
Swim - 4th 59:01
Bike - 4th 6:30:25
Run - 4th 3:28:20
Overall - 4th 10:57:48
All the chocolate medals this weekend 🍫.

Started with a plan to take in the experience with zero expectations of being competitive - this retirement thing is quite fun really!

So proud to share the experience with some fantastic human beings, and to share the red carpet with my favourite .

Most importantly, I’m one very proud coach to 6 other athletes taking on different parts of LCW 🩵 constantly inspired.

Thank you to everyone for the support out there…this sport 🥹

A great weekend of work from A2Z triathletes and 🌟

Laura celebrated being 1 year in remission from cancer in her own way, by tackling her first aquabike (swim-bike) race in Stewartby, Bedford. Laura incredibly had the fastest swim in her AG and finished 4th in category. Laura is a true inspiration with her resilience and strong character, it’s great to see the hard work rewarded so brilliantly 💪🏼

MJ competed at Cardiff Triathlon Super Sprint. MJ finished in the top 10 females overall. MJ is demonstrating great improvements across all disciplines on the way to her big goals later this year 👏🏼

🔜 Next up for A2Z Triathletes is Long Course Weekend, Tenby! It’s going to be a big one! 🔥

Medal Monday! 🏅🎖️

A huge congratulations to Raeanna Grainger who put together a fantastic performance in Cotswolds 113 triathlon yesterday 🔥

Rae had a goal of breaking 6 hours and absolutely blew that to pieces with a fantastic 5h38mins, despite a nasty tumble on the run, and finished 4th in her age group 💥

Most importantly, Rae executed her race plan and learned a lot, which she can take forward to her ‘A’ race later this year 💪🏼

One proud coach! 👏🏼 🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️

An awesome few weeks of racing from A2Z Triathletes 🤩

Last week, Rhiannon Buckley completed Ironman 70.3 Majorca, and today Laura Butcher and Raeanna Grainger both took on the Tata Steelman triathlon in Port Talbot 🏊🏼‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️🏃🏽‍♀️👸

Rhiannon finished IM 70.3 Majorca in fine style in her first big race since Ironman Wales last year ✨

Laura achieved a top 5 female overall swim and finished 12th in her age group 🔥

Rae finished 6th in her age group and just outside the top 20 females overall 💥

Most importantly, all athletes had great fun, and came away from their day with lessons learned and a hunger for more! 👊🏼

One proud coach over here 🙋🏽‍♀️ very excited to see what A2Z triathletes can do in 2023 🩵

Found this wonderful memory deep in the archives this week 🤸🏽‍♀️🏆.

It’s been quite the journey from finishing 3rd in 5years and under vault in my local club championships in 1997, all the way to running my first marathon last weekend!

Physiologically, the vault in gymnastics and the marathon couldn’t be more different from each other. This made me contemplate how all of our journeys in sport are so varied, and how we have different experiences, training histories and physiological make up.

It’s important to remember that it’s never too late to change focus and do something that’s a bit different or something that scares you ✨

Answer the poll in our story - tell us where your sporting life started, and if we can help with your journey
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Medal Monday! 🏅

A busy weekend for A2Z triathletes, with the incredible and taking on Wildflower Duathlon, both hitting big goals! Just 8 months after was told she’s in remission from cancer, inspiring 👏🏼

& were doing amazing things, supporting the National Autistic Society at the Margam Park 10k, raising funds for an incredible charity 💙

also put out an awesome performance over 5km in Porthcawl Parkrun 💥

Coach took on the San Dom 20 miler…I’m inspired every day by these awesome athletes, and how they fit hard training around busy careers and family lives.

Keep being awesome, all! 👏🏼

Who loves a bit of Winter racing?! ❄️💥

We’re having so much fun mixing it up with cross country, trail races, swimming galas, zwift racing and Parkrun! 🏊🏼‍♀️🏊🏼🚴🏽‍♀️🚴🏽🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏽

The winter grind can certainly drag on, especially in February / March, when the summer of racing seems so close, but so far away 🌥️.

It’s important to get race sharp, iron out any race day rituals, and make any small race errors before those big goals come knocking. But finding the balance between training and racing can be difficult too ⚖️.

Over the next few weeks, A2Z triathletes are racing at the Hoka Trail Half Marathon, Welsh cross country championships, Monaco trail race, Zwift’s WGT Series, Cardiff Running 10/20, local cross country leagues and loads more!! 🏅🎖️🏆

Let us know in our story…what is your favourite way to get race-ready ?! ☝🏼☝🏼

Race days in the sun feel like a whole world away right now! Whether that’s upcoming 2023 events, or the highs of 2022 race season, we really can’t get further away from triathlon in the sun than we are right now!

Before knuckling down and focussing on 2023 goals, take some time to reflect on 2022, remember your achievements and spend time being proud of them.

It could be that you’ve achieved a certain race distance for the first time, set a new a PB, returned from injury or stayed injury free. You might have hit some consistency in your training, or have you even set yourself a scary goal for next year?! These achievements don’t only have to be triathlon-related…Have you realised a new work-related goal? Travelled somewhere you’ve always wanted to? Or found that sweet spot of work-life balance?

What did you do in 2022 that you’re proud of? Let us know!

Christmas training 🎄🎅🏼

Everyone sees this time of year differently when it comes to training. For some, the time off work can mean “training camp, let’s go!” For others, it’s the perfect opportunity for a break and quiet family time.

Your plans can be forced, however, as it can be hard to find as much pool time as you need, due to closures. Whilst the weather outside is a bit brutal and can be unsafe for training.

I like to get involved in festive-themed events, take the opportunity to see sporting friends from all over the area, and generally just mix it up with trail runs and off-road riding. There’s a long time until race season, so enjoy the opportunity to socialise, dig out the Santa outfit and find your inner child.

Don’t lose sight of your goals, but also remember to spice it up and have fun with friends and training pals.

Nadolig Llawen, pawb! Merry Christmas!

Testimonial Tuesday!!!

After 4 years of working together, Siôn has taken huge steps with improving his fitness, and self belief has gone through the roof!! 2023 is going to be big…
“Zoe has taken me from believing a sprint triathlon was an endurance event, to Ironman aspirations. She’s also made me believe I could actually beat Geth soon, which I never thought possible!!”

Do you want to beat your mates? Let us know how we can help !!

Brilliant work from A2Z triathlete today, who did a PB at the Brighton 10km of 46:07!! Sophie has carried her 70.3 race fitness into winter training, ready to build for a big 2023 💪🏼

Balance ⚖️

Happy Friday, wonderful humans!

As full-time workers, it can be really easy to look at the weekend as a time to cram a lot of training in and do absolutely nothing else. But remember how important it is to achieve balance between training, work, social time, family time and recovery 🫶🏻

While the weekend is a great opportunity to do those long bike rides and long runs that you can’t squeeze into mid-week…don’t forget to plan some TV time, time with friends, time to eat nice food and even a party too, just to keep the brain fresh 😌.

Just as work/life balance is really important, it’s important to keep the same perspective on training. Always remember, sport started as a hobby for the pure enjoyment of it. You’ll be the best athlete you can while still feeling that love 💫

Cheers to the weekend 🥂



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