Coach Colin Cook's Blog

2015 Raleigh 70.3 Race Report I flew into Raleigh on Friday and stayed with my friend Chad and his wife Sammy in Cary. It was tough leaving the family at home, but Kristen wasn’t quite ready to travel with our 3 month old yet. However, I’d being lying if I didn’t say I scored some […]

On August 16th, I competed in the Timberman 70.3 which is located in my home state of New Hampshire.  Leading up to the race, I had a lot going on.  My buddy Elliot Kawaoka flew in to do the race.  Elliot lives in Arizona so I don’t see him too often, but he is a […]

On July 15th, my family and I started our voyage to Nantucket for the weekend. I had never done any of the races on the island before, but Nantucket is a special place to me.  With the exception of the last 2 years, I had been going there every year since I was in 3rd […]

Prerace: The fam and I traveled to Syracuse on Friday. My parents grew up in the area so they came as well.  We took separate cars and they offered to take Calvin, our two and half year old with them. There were no arguments at all from my wife or I on that one. We […]

On Saturday, 10/25/14, PTC rented out the Winning Swimming Endless Pool for 5.5 hours to work with our swimmers to help them improve their stroke.  This is part of a “Before and After” series we are doing as we help clients improve their stroke during the winter/out season.  Each was swimmer was given 20 minutes […]

I am proud to report that I had a great showing at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii a couple weeks ago.  My wife and I headed to Kona about a week before the race and had an amazing week of R&R, a little snorkeling, and soaking up the surreal environment of Kona the […]

On August 17th, I raced Timberman 70.3.  Timberman is New England’s premier triathlon and this year did not disappoint.  I was fortunate enough to spend the weekend with some of my clients, thank you so much Mike and Cindy Walsh!!!  They have a beautiful place in Laconia and its only 15 minutes or so from […]

At the end of January, I had the thrill off spending some time in the wind tunnel. It is always very exciting to get in the wind tunnel and do some testing. I had starting working with Armand, the founder and owner of Speed Merchant Aero, a few months back.  We both had expressed interest […]

At the beginning of the month, my wife and I headed down to St. Croix to compete in the Ironman 70.3.  Please find my video race report below:   Here are a few clips my wife took during the race: Here is a link to some video from the race as well as our experiences […]

Last week I competed in the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Mont Tremblant, Quebec, Canada.  I’ve been excited for the opportunity to head back up to Mont Tremblant because my wife and I just love the venue.  Its a great, challenging course, but the village is just awesome.  Everything is so close and its very […]

I hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far! Things are going well with me, just very busy and feeling the cold a bit. I am very grateful to have my clients and friends to train/motivate me through what may be a long winter. Our brick workouts at Hampshire Hills are off and […]

On Saturday, 11/8/14, PTC offered its clients a free strength training evaluation with our strength coach Chris Brown and his wife Alicia. Chris has been working with PTC for just about a year now and is a great strength coach. As a triathlete himself, he really understands the needs and demands of triathletes. Since the […]