Tremayne Performance Coaching works with triathletes across Victoria, from Gatorade Series regulars at Elwood and Sandringham to age-groupers targeting Geelong 70.3 and Melbourne 70.3. The coaching is fully remote, delivered through TrainingPeaks, and built around individual physiology rather than a generic plan.
Victorian fields are among the deepest in Australian triathlon. Breakthrough results come from training that is matched to the athlete, the race calendar, and the conditions. Cookie-cutter programmes do not cut it against that kind of competition.
Racing in Victoria
The Victorian season is bookended by two of the country's strongest long-course events. Ironman 70.3 Geelong opens the calendar in February with a rolling bike course along the Bellarine and an exposed, frequently hot run along the waterfront. Melbourne 70.3 closes the season in November on the Mornington Peninsula, where race-day conditions can be dramatically different to what you trained in.
For shorter-course racing, the Gatorade Triathlon Series runs through venues like Elwood, St Kilda, Sandringham, and Portarlington. Shepparton Triathlon Festival is the step-up fixture for athletes wanting long-course experience without the Melbourne logistics. Challenge Melbourne and the state championship series round out a packed calendar.
Every race on that calendar demands a different build. Training for Geelong in February is not the same as training for Melbourne 70.3 nine months later. The programme is structured around the event you are targeting, your ability, and the time you realistically have each week. Your race distance does not determine your volume. Your ability and your lifestyle do.
Training in Victorian Conditions
Victorian training has its own flavour. Port Phillip Bay gives you open water swimming from Elwood, Brighton, Williamstown, and Mordialloc, though water temperatures can drop below 13 degrees in winter and demand a considered acclimation approach. Beach Road is effectively the national cycling highway, and the corridor from Brighton through Black Rock out to Mordialloc is arguably the most used training road in the country.
For hill work, the Dandenong Ranges put serious climbs within an hour of the CBD. Mount Dandenong and The 1:20 are staples. Further south, Arthurs Seat is the benchmark climb for peninsula-based athletes. For longer endurance work, the Macedon Ranges and Yarra Valley deliver the rolling terrain you need to build durability for 70.3 and Ironman racing.
Four seasons in one day is real. A programme that ignores summer heat at Geelong, winter winds on Beach Road, or the cold start temperatures of a Melbourne 70.3 swim is a programme written for someone else's climate.
The Tremayne Performance Method for Victorian Athletes
Every athlete on the roster goes through heart rate testing and DFA a1 ramp testing every six to eight weeks to establish their individual training zones. This is the foundation. You need to know your own thresholds before you can train them properly. Those zones then drive the day-to-day work in the five-zone model used across all TPC programming.
Training distribution is pyramidal. Roughly 70 per cent of your weekly load sits in Zones 1 and 2, about 25 per cent is in Zone 3, and the remaining 5 per cent is reserved for Zones 4 and 5. This is the opposite of the popular 80/20 polarised approach, and it is what builds the sustained race-pace capability that long-course Victorian racing demands.
The coaching covers swim, bike, and run, integrates with whatever tech you already own (Garmin, Wahoo, Polar, power meters), and is delivered through TrainingPeaks with weekly communication and direct coach access. You can read more about the full Tremayne Performance method or the underlying DFA a1 analysis.
Results from Victorian Athletes
Craig Hoffmann took 25 minutes off his 70.3 time at Geelong in 10 weeks of structured training, going from 5:12 to 4:47 and moving from 75th to 22nd in his age group. His bike split dropped from 2:35 to 2:23. His run dropped from 1:57 to 1:44. The training was built around his individual thresholds, not an estimated benchmark.
Jeremy Laing moved through from club-level racing to a top-5 finish at the Victorian State Championships in the Lightweight Men's Single, racing A-Grade against the strongest scullers in the state. The principle carries across endurance sports: structured work, individual zones, consistent progression.
These are not outliers. They are what happens when the programme is matched to the athlete.