Coach Colin Cook's Blog

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 […]

I have been working with Vitality Sciences over the past couple years and they offer some great products.  They recently asked me to do a brief interview with them.  Check it out.  I can get great deals on their products as well so let me know if you’re interested in trying some.

Over the weekend I raced the Rev3 Quassy Half Iron in Connecticut. We could not have asked for any better conditions and Rev3 really knows how to put on a great race.  Overall, I had a pretty good day.  I finished 12th overall and 4th in my age group.  Here are a couple pics my […]

Last week I competed at Ironman Canada which takes place in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.  The travel out was a little tough with the family, but it was well worth it.  Whistler is an AMAZING place and you really couldn’t ask for a better venue.  Overall, the trip went well and I had a pretty […]

A lot of my clients were interested in getting together to go over transitions. I typically do one on one sessions with my clients to go over this stuff, but I got enough interest and it was a lot of fun to do this as a group session. I am very big about being efficient […]

I participated in inaugural Syracuse 70.3 a few years back, but unfortunately had my first and only DNF to date during it.  I managed to break a spoke and bend my wheel on the bike so I unfortunately had to pull out of the race.  I was happy to get the opportunity to come back […]

Well I was excited for this race and feeling confident about the race for good reason! I ended up with an Ironman PR, I won my age group, and punched my ticket back to KONA!!! I was really in awe when I found out I had won my age group. Here are the details of […]

On Sunday I competed in my first cyclocross race.  I had picked up a cyclocross bike from my main man Jack at the Velo Resource a few weeks ago.  My initial plan was to only give cyclocross a shot this year if I didn’t make it to Kona, but I decided that there was still […]

2nd Overall at the New England Season Opener   There is nothing quite like the first tri of the season.  Is still very cold, we had some rain yesterday, but you can feel the excitement and anticipation for this race every year as it is the first race of the season for the majority of […]

The Big Show!  The family and I started our voyage to Kona on Monday night. Since this would be our first time traveling with our 10 month old, we figured taking redeye flights would be best. This certainly appeared to help, but it was definitely a new experience that didn’t make things any easier. Nonetheless, […]

While I was up in Lake Placid, I chatted with a gal from Triathlete magazine named Mackenzie Lobby.  She was very nice and luckily she was interested in using my as a reference of a topic I am interested and well educated in.  I was really curious how the article would come out, but it […]