Camps With MCC
Camps 2025
2025 I want to provide you options to train with me in person, learn and get quality time together. I enjoy the opportunity to see you and get that face time. I’ve seen so much value in these spaces.
I’ll be providing 3 very different opportunities, Tucson, Italy and Girona. All will provide different and unique opportunities to spend time together. The choice is yours! I’ve chosen my partnership with each camp experience to set us up for the absolute best experiences together.
Tucson Camp
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Monday March 3rd kick off welcome dinner through to Saturday March 8th farewell dinner .
In its 18th year running in a row this camp has a deep history of creating an environment that will bring you to a new level. Marilyn Chychota and Jesse Vondracek come together to bring you the very best to start your year right.
MCC partnered with Jesse Vondracek. For this season we have refined the Tucson camp schedule to suit different abilities and goals for different athletes. There will be opportunities for new camp athletes right through to experienced athletes looking to push their boundaries. With a great team of coaches we will provide top notch skills sessions as an opportunity to learn. We will have the option of an A or B group that are catered to different needs depending on if you’d like to really push yourself with something more epic that day or if you’re looking for the space to do a session that is not quite as spicy. You can look forward to a great week that will increase your preseason fitness and improve your overall skills.
Italy Camp
Dates May 26th - May 31st, 2025
If Tucson isn’t your jam then the next opportunity to experience an amazing trip of training, coaching and travel together is in Italy. I’ve partnered with Jennifer Vollmann of Finding Endurance and Cris Corazzini to provide us with an outstanding week filled with swim, bike, run, food, wine tasting and much more.
Check out all the trip details, itinerary and registration HERE *When you register add MCC next to your name.
Girona Camp
August 12th - 18th, 2025
No time for camps or travel early in the year but still want to have a camp together? I checked out Girona in 2024 to see if this would be a great place for us to have another amazing opportunity together. It is everything the hype suggests. I loved it. I couldn’t pass up offering this experience to you all for 2025. Partnering with Finding Endurance and Cris Corazzini once again we will be excited to share Girona with you. I hope you can come to this one, it was one of my favorite weeks all year.
Camp information including the full itinerary, trip details and registration HERE *When you register add MCC next to your name.
WHY CAMPS!
Grit happens. And sometimes in the most surprising places. Our triathlon camps are an opportunity to find out who you are. And. who you are not.
We are proud that we create a safe environment for athletes to exceed their abilities.
Our camp attracts the best and people who want to be their best. Our camp creates lifetime friendships and people who will inspire us for a lifetime. At the end of camp, we become a band of people who laugh until we cry, regale each other with stories and digest a margarita or two. Sometimes an athlete fails a workout in the process. And when they fail, it is inspiring to see them dust themselves off and try again. Failure is acceptable. Cracking is not!
We came to camp as individuals and we left as a team.
Triathlete Magazine rates us as one of the premier camps to attend when seeking a personal record. See what some of our camp athletes had to say in Triathlete Magazine
"The draw: Over ten years strong,camps include fully supported training and guidance from a team of veteran coaches, some of which are current or former pro triathletes. Education is a big priority.
Game-changing gain: Because these are longstanding camps that see a lot of returning athletes year after year, new campers learn not just from the coaches but also from the “senior” campers. This camp’s reputation for camaraderie and friendliness is second to none."
Marilyn has been organizing and coaching camps for over 25 years. We see a lot of value in camps for an athlete’s overall development and setting up your year well.
Marilyn: “As long as I can remember doing this sport, I have been going to training camps. Plain and simple, camps are good! Everybody gets something different from them, but everybody gets something. I find that camps are one of the most important pieces in developing an athlete.
I have always approached camps with the attitude to learn as much as possible about myself, my limitations, and to really take the opportunity to push myself in some way.
I always push myself to new levels at every camp I’ve ever done. I won my first Ironman after attending a camp.”
We want to provide great learning opportunities outside your normal environment. We will not only set up training to push you outside your comfort zone, but create environments for you to learn new skills. We hope you leave not only fitter, better as an athlete all around and with friendships for a lifetime. With access to Marilyn and her team we hope to give you every opportunity to learn from us making you stronger and smarter athletes. We come together here as a team to become the best we can be, all while having fun.
Our goal is to provide not only a good foundation of training volume but also provide as many coaching and education opportunities with us as possible.
*Read here how ready do I need to be for camp.
Certified experienced coaches with over a decade of elite experience. Every session you will have experienced coaches guiding and teaching you.
Camps provide amateur and professional athletes an opportunity for a block of challenging training completely focused and catered. Your job will be to eat, sleep, learn and push yourself to new levels. You will come together with like-minded, similar-ability athletes that you might not get to train with at home. At camp, you have the chance to push each other and support one another. We provide many opportunities to learn new things to become a better athlete. Our camps are where athletes often step up to a new level, not only from pushing new boundaries, but also being around a new level of training and thinking you would not normally be exposed to. I experienced this when I first raced professionally and attended a camp. I went on from that camp to win my first Ironman. These camps can shape your perspective on what it takes to be good.
Need some competition? We always have athletes trying to push themselves during each event. And they enjoy pushing each other too. Plus they respect that each of us may be training each day for different reasons. You get exactly the training stimulus you want or need.
CAMPS ARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO:
Be exposed to new things, so come with an open mind to learn.
Meet new people who share your interests. I've made some of my closest friends from camps.
See a new place.
Test and push yourself in an environment where you don't have to worry about much other than training.
Create memories and expose character you never knew you had.
Always come armed with a good sense of humor.
Always come humble and ready to learn.
I promise that you'll walk away with new friends, new perspectives, and a new motivation towards your season.
Testimonials:
“This camp is amazing! The high level of coaching, camp experience, and iconic training ground of Tucson attracts dedicate, talented and passionate athletes. The combination of coaching, organization, and community keeps me coming back year after year. It’s a perfect environment to increase fitness, knowledge, and skills heading into the season. And it's just a lot of fun!”
“Marilyn's deep experience in running camps definitely showed - everything ran smoothly with a great mix of coaches (variety of backgrounds cycling, swimming, triathlon) and top notch support! Amazing group of athletes with a variety of levels meant you could push yourself on any and every workout. This was my first time attending a MCC camp and it definitely won't be my last!”
“Camp provided an opportunity to get outside with amazing athletes and just train, as much as I wanted to, in safe spaces, alongside other hardcore humans, with a coach’s feedback. It was a week of fun, laughs, and hard work to BEST prepare for the year ahead!”
RUNNING YOUR OWN CAMP AND NEED HELP? HIRE ME TO HELP YOU AT YOUR CAMP
**You can also hire me to coach at your camp, speak at your camp, or help you learn how to create a successful camp. Email me for inquires.
Athlete Quote: Rene Miles- " It isn't easy to create a team atmosphere when athletes work and train together on a daily basis. However, Marilyn has been able to bring together her athletes from all over the world to work together as a team at camp and accomplish that within a matter of hours. I now know why she wanted me to come to camp and am so thankful that I did."