We’ve been helping triathletes smash their goals for 28 years

– and inn 1989 when this mag launched, the method for estimating your maximum heart rate in training was to subtract your age from 220. The team wanted to make it clear that they’d help you reach your performance potential, so incorporating ‘220’ into the mag name was a way of reflecting that promise. The method may have moved on, but we’re as determined as ever to help you achieve yourour goals.

FROM THE VAULT ISSUE 34

Given our gear pages this month are dominated by our big wetsuits test, we thought it’d be timely to dig out May 1992’s ‘Wet Issue’ beauty from220’s vault. And true to form, edition 34 of 220 has plenty of early 1990s colour, with the imageheavy wetsuits review spread sharing the block colours of a Saved by the

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220 founder John Lillie’s big test is how many of the brands are no longer visible in triathlon swims, with O’Three, Terrapin, Spartan and Gul all largely absent, while Cornwall’s custom wetsuit specialists, Snugg, are the only outfit still going strong in 2017’s triathlon circles.

Elsewhere in the issue, there’s a big 220 interview with reigning Ironman worrld champion Mark Allenn in San Diego, trainingg articles on pylometriccs, pace training and swimmer’s shoulder, as well as a page on the increasingly popular trend of training and racing by heart rate.

There’s a big National Duathlon Championship race report from Burnham-on-Sea, which was won by our very own run coach Spencer Smith ahead of a field of 300 athletes.

There’s also coverage of the upcoming220 Series, the major UK race series of the day, featuring the Swindon Olympic, Windsor Triathlon, Ironbridge, and Bath Spa events.

“The wetsuit spread shares the block colours of a Saved by the Bell credits sequence”