USAT Events

Topic: Maximizing a GPS for Run Training in Long Course Triathlon
Presenter: Jim Vance

Elite Coach Jim Vance will present the metrics and tracking those metrics, to improve and maximize run training for long course triathlon, using a GPS device. GPS devices can do much more than just telling pace and HR, and Coach Vance will share how he uses these tools to maximize his athletes' preparations. These metrics include:

• Aerobic fitness
• Fat-burning economy
• Average pace tracking
• Peaking and tapering
• Using the data to build athlete confidence
• Race specific intensity and pace
• Pacing skill
  
  

Jim Vance

Jim is a Level 2 and Youth & Junior Certified Coach for USA Triathlon, as well as an Elite Coach for TrainingBible Coaching. Jim holds a BS in Physical and Health Education, K-12, from the University of Nebraska, where he ran track and cross country. He was a school teacher for 6 years, before committing to triathlon full-time. He is also the founder and Head Coach of TriJuniors, a USAT High Performance Team in San Diego, focused on developing youth and junior elite triathletes. 

Jim has spent time at the US Olympic Training Center, training under the guidance of the National Team Coaching Staff, as well as seen success with two World Championship titles as an amateur, in both XTERRA and ITU. His range of performances also stretch to Ironman, where he finished 3rd at the 2006 Ironman Florida, in a time of 8:37:09. He has coached National Champions, and World Championship podium finishers, for both amateurs and elites. In 2011, Jim was named US National Elite Team Head Coach for the Duathlon World Championships, leading the US to one of its best team performances ever at the event.