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		<title>Talk to me, I want to know how you’re going</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/03/05/talk-to-me-i-want-to-know-how-youre-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every athlete is different. We all have different abilities to recover. We all have different strengths and weaknesses. Something that won&#8217;t mean a thing to one athlete will offend another. The sort of feedback which will motivate one athlete may look like rubbish to another.
The coach&#8217;s job is to get to know each athlete as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One day in March</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/02/24/one-day-in-march/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;re training for New Zealand Ironman or Ironman Australia, there&#8217;s just one day in March when you need to be on top of your game.
About this time of year I answer lots of e-mails adressing lots of fears and doubts. It seems at this time, lots of guys are reading what others are doing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You can’t please everyone</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/02/15/you-cant-please-everyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed this comment posted on my website today. Now I thought, not everyone reads the comments, and Marie obviously has a view. Why not share it with everyone.

1.      marie said 

on February 11, 2010
this man is a bully and a coward going by his behaviour at Yeronga Pool this morning towards me, a gentle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power within</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/02/09/the-power-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always told the guys in the squad to look after one square meter and one minute at a time. It&#8217;s such a hard skill to learn. When you go to work on Monday after racing on the weekend. The guys at work ask, &#8220;did you win?&#8221; After a lengthy, painful explanation about how age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners, even they lose now and then</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/22/winners-even-they-lose-now-and-then/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Becoming a Winner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Every athlete has setbacks. Everyone has setbacks in their lives, you don&#8217;t have to be an athlete for this to happen. It is just part of life.
Champion boxers who have never been defeated are rare. But rare as they may be, there are some who go through their whole careers without losing a fight. Now a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you eat enough vegetables?</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/13/do-you-eat-enough-vegetables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/13/do-you-eat-enough-vegetables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all busy, we fit more into a life than most. To keep doing what we do and to stay healthy while maintaining a lean, muscular physique. We need to make sure we get enough vegetables in our diet. It&#8217;s very easy to fall into the trap of getting most of our carbs from wheat products.
There [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Science vs “X” factor</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/11/sports-science-vs-x-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/11/sports-science-vs-x-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A coach friend who has trained with us to NZIM in the past and is now a gymnastics coach, sent me the article below.
It&#8217;s part of a larger article talking about how many countries in the world have &#8220;High Performance&#8221; programs in place. Governments around the world have spents millions of dollars on these programs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are your heels too high?</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/06/are-your-heels-too-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2010/01/06/are-your-heels-too-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human body&#8217;s basic design has remained unchanged for a few thousand years. It seems we&#8217;ve reached a point where further evolution/development of the model was unecessary. Things are working fine.
Most of the problems with health. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc can be resolved by going back to a diet similar to what our ancestors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10,000 hours to make a champion</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2009/12/28/10000-hours-to-make-a-champion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2009/12/28/10000-hours-to-make-a-champion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the recent level three coaches course (the final segment in the saga) one of the guest speakers spoke of the universally accepted view amongst coaches, that it takes 10,000 hours for an athlete in any sport to win an Olympic Gold Medal. It appears it&#8217;s the same amount of development needed for a cyclist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Five years of Ironman</title>
		<link>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2009/12/16/twenty-five-years-of-ironman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.aptriathlon.com/2009/12/16/twenty-five-years-of-ironman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>apitman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.aptriathlon.com/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1985 I was heavily involved in building my fortune. I worked seven days a week, most weeks and often started at 5.30am and finished at 7.30pm at night. I had married very young and had gotten into the habit of hard work from an early age. By this stage I had two Cat machines, [...]]]></description>
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