Vision Quest Coaching

I got my ass handed to me here. It hurt so good.
I went in for a baseline assessment, which basically involved getting my bike on the trainer and pedaling until I wanted to puke.
This place is what I imagine it would be like biking on the Starship Enterprise would be like. There is a command center with computers that control all the trainers on the floor. They automatically adjust to replicate any number of courses, from Ironman Arizona to the Tour de France. Giant computer screens display your progress, or help distract you with a movie or the news.
This place also has locker rooms and is impeccably clean. I’m looking forward to going back to do a little recon on the Racine 70.3 Ironman course this spring.

Best training facility and coaching staff I’ve ever worked with.

VQ is a coaching and training facility for cyclists and triathletes. In terms of elite training, this is pretty much as good as it gets — and you don’t have to be an elite athlete to train there. Having completed my first Ironman triathlon in 2008, I decided I wanted to come back stronger and faster, so I hired a coach and got a membership with Vision Quest. It was the best thing I could have done; I took 3 hours and 9 minutes off the previous year’s Ironman time. To boot, the staff is extremely knowledgeable, friendly and engaged.
Caveats: You get what you pay for; unless you do the Taste of VQ program, the rates are not cheap.
Though they do have a developing juniors program for cyclists, VQ is not particularly kid-​friendly (but I don’t have any kids)!
The competition is fierce, so at times it is difficult to get an easy workout in because everybody else is riding, running or swimming faster than you.