Coach Vinnie
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My coach’s name is Vinnie Santana – a real Brazilian with a real Brazilian name. He works with Ironguides and “the Method”. It’s awesome, Vinnie is a great coach, very knowledgable and supportive in many ways. The simplicity with which he approaches the sport and the training is fantastic, simplistic but professional. Simplisitic in terms of gear that I need. You think that you enter Triathlon because of all the gear, it might be true, but I am glad to have found that I am still in it even after being introduced to the ‘no-gear approach’.
He just had an article over at xtri.com, it is about coming back after retirment. He is either targeting Lance Armstrong or myself. Not that I have been in retirement, but I have been out a few days too many due to sickness, which is part of the article as well.
He is concerned over what I’ve lost and trying to get me back on track. I think I have been doing allright, good enough to go and do Singapore 70.3 on Sunday.
As training…
Coach Vinnie Santana is ironguides’ Brazilian “Young Gun” and fastest coach! An 8’50” Ironman athlete at age 22 a few years ago, Vinnie is “ex-TBB” and came out of teamTBB’s Triathlon Kids program in Brazil. Vinnie’s great feel for Method training and enthusiastic, caring approach for every athlete shows through in his highly detailed, energized communications with his athletes. Based in Bangkok, Vinnie coaches online athletes from around the world and provides in-person coaching to a strong squad of local squad of athletes. More about Coach Vinnie over at Ironguides
It says that “he served time with Team TBB” – sounds like the military, and perhaps it was…