The 24-week training program is laid out in four six-week increments. This represents the day-by-day, week-by-week work to be done in preparing for a successful long-distance triathlon. Okay, you've finished your first short-distance triathlon, maybe even an Olympic distance or half-distance triathlon. Now it's time to up the ante and go further and faster. Paul Huddle and Roch Frey are up to the challenge. Longer workouts, balancing work, family, and training, adding speed work, recovery, and the mental game are all essential when you decide to move up to the long distance. No one has more training or racing experience than Roch and Paul. They will get you to your target race healthy, happy, and ready for more. Guaranteed.

During his twelve-year career as a professional triathlete, Paul Huddle finished over twenty long-distance events and well over 300 triathlons. As a partner in Multisports.com, Huddle is involved in production, administration, and instruction at triathlon camps and clinics all over the world. A former professional triathlete from Canada, Roch Frey has been involved with triathlon for over twenty years. After winning the Canadian Long Course National Championships in 1993, he turned to full-time coaching and combined forces with Paul Huddle, Paula Newby-Fraser, and John Duke to create Multisports.com. Formerly the editor-in-chief of Triathlete Maga-zine, T.J. Murphy is now editor of CitySports Magazine in San Francisco and a regular contributor to Ironmanlive.com. He finished four Ironman® events, including the Ironman® Hawaii in 2000.