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WEEKLY TRANSITION
Recovery Week: Let the Work Land
Recovery Week gives the work room to land. This edition also looks at Run Melbourne, a dramatic Tour de France turning point, AusTri membership cover and the complete squad week ahead.
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Recovery Week: Let the Work Land
Welcome to Recovery Week, team.
The last two weeks asked us to draw the bow and then hold the line when the work began to accumulate. This is the part people are tempted to skip: giving the body enough room to turn that work into fitness.
Recovery does not mean disappearing for seven days or trying to win the easy sessions. It means keeping the rhythm, respecting the reduced load, eating and sleeping like they belong in the plan, and letting a little freshness return. If the legs feel heavy early in the week, that is information rather than a crisis.
Use the confirmed sessions below, check the live timetable before leaving home and resist the urge to add work simply because you have extra energy. The goal is to finish the week wanting to train, not needing another recovery week from Recovery Week. |
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→ Training TimetableEvery session, venue and time — the most-used link in Weekly Transition.Training PhasesTraining Zones |
This week at a glance
Monday — Squad swim at MSAC, 6:15 pm
Tuesday — Recovery Week: no morning run; Wind Trainer at MSAC, 6:15 pm
Wednesday — Squad swim at MSAC, 5:45 am
Thursday — Recovery Week: no morning Hot Laps; Run technique and base at The Tan, 6:00 pm
Friday — Recovery Week sleep-in: no morning swim is scheduled by design
Saturday — Long Course Ride 6:30 am or Short Course Ride 7:00 am from Elwood Beach
Sunday — Fairfield Long Run, 8:00 am
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This week’s training focus
The training priority is absorption. Hold good body line in the pool, smooth pressure on the bike and relaxed mechanics on the run. Reduce the noise around the sessions: arrive prepared, complete the prescribed work and stop when the purpose is achieved.
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Triathlon Base Phase Periodization: How to Structure April to October
Recovery Week is where periodisation becomes practical: two build weeks create the stimulus, then a planned reduction lets the work settle. This April-to-October guide shows how reset, aerobic base, strength-endurance and build phases fit together—and why backing off at the right moment is part of progression, not lost training.
Read the training guide
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Triathlon Nutrition: Recovery & Fuelling Guide
Training load only becomes fitness when recovery is supported. This guide covers the food, timing and everyday fuelling habits that help athletes repair between blocks without treating an easier week as a reason to under-fuel.
Read the recovery fuelling guide
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Coach’s Corner
Recovery is training. Keep easy work genuinely easy, preserve technique and use any extra time for sleep, food preparation, mobility and the life admin that makes the next build block easier.
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Program Update: Alignment Fixed
We’ve completed a comprehensive alignment of the 2026 and 2026/27 Short Course and Long Course programs in CoachingMate.
Recovery weeks and Swim, Bike and Run session families have been realigned across Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced programs. The original periodisation, taper, race-week and post-race recovery dates have been preserved; programs have not simply been shifted to make them fit.
Please keep an eye on your upcoming program and let us know if you spot an outlier, such as a missing session, a session on the wrong day, a recovery week that does not align with the squad, or a session that does not suit the current training phase.
When reporting an issue, please include your program, ability level, week commencing date and a screenshot if possible so we can investigate it quickly. Report a program outlier
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Ollie’s Swim, Bike & Run Focus This Week
Carry these three priorities from Coach’s Corner into each squad session this Recovery Week.
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Swim
Technique, squad and open-water focus.
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Bike
Power, endurance and group-ride focus.
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Run
Pacing, durability and session focus.
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RACE COUNTDOWN
VIC Duathlon: Tanya and Simon Back on the Moto
VIC Duathlon Race 2 was held at Altona Beach on Sunday. We do not have any confirmed Tri Alliance race starters, and results are not yet available to verify. Tanya and Simon were back supporting the event as Technical Officials on motos — thank you both for helping make racing possible.
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Run Melbourne: A Big Morning for Our Multisport City
Run Melbourne brought runners into Melbourne Park on Sunday for the half marathon, 10K and 5.5K. We do not have a confirmed Tri Alliance result to report, but it still matters to our community: a major local run puts endurance sport in public view and gives first-timers, experienced runners, volunteers and supporters the same finish-line energy.
If you raced, paced, volunteered or cheered, send us your result and a photo so we can recognise it properly next week rather than guess from incomplete listings. View Run Melbourne results
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Tour de France: Lessons From The Big Show
The Tour delivered a brutal reminder on Stage 15. Jonas Vingegaard, sitting second overall, crashed after a difficult roundabout with about 20 kilometres remaining and was forced to abandon. In one moment, a three-week campaign and the expected battle for yellow changed completely.
The lesson is not to ride timidly. It is to respect that skill, attention and positioning remain part of performance even when the legs are excellent. Fatigue narrows decision-making, road furniture does not care about the general classification, and staying composed through transitions can matter as much as producing power on the final climb. Follow the Tour de France
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AusTri Membership: Check You Are Covered
The 2026–27 AusTriathlon season began on 1 July, so please check that your membership renewed and still matches the training and racing you plan to do. Basic membership covers triathlon training but not racing; Standard includes training and AusTriathlon-sanctioned racing in Australia; Premium provides higher benefits and broader racing support.
Log in to the member portal, confirm your status and read the current insurance summary rather than assuming last season’s settings carried over. If you are unsure which level fits, ask us before your next event. Check your AusTri membership
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Tell us what you are up to
Reply with your race result, training milestone, volunteer story, useful lesson or squad photo. Raw details are enough; the Campaign Studio team will verify, write and format it.
Send your story, result or photo
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Important this week
Recovery Week timetable note: Tuesday morning run, Thursday morning Hot Laps and Friday morning swim are deliberately off this week’s timetable. These planned breaks create extra recovery and sleep; they are not missing sessions.
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THE WEEK AHEAD – SESSION OVERVIEW
Monday 20 July, 6:15 pm — Squad Swim, MSAC Outdoor Pool
Tuesday 21 July — No morning run (Recovery Week); Wind Trainer at MSAC, 6:15 pm
Wednesday 22 July, 5:45 am — Squad Swim, MSAC Outdoor Pool
Thursday 23 July — No morning Hot Laps (Recovery Week); Run technique and base at The Tan, 6:00 pm
Friday 24 July — No morning swim; planned Recovery Week sleep-in
Saturday 25 July, 6:30 am — Long Course Ride, Elwood Beach
Saturday 25 July, 7:00 am — Short Course Ride, Elwood Beach
Sunday 26 July, 8:00 am — Fairfield Long Run
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