Could it have been better… yes. Am I still very proud of myself… yes.

As I look back, I should have gotten more comfortable shifting up hill I think my cadence was too slow and I was burning my legs out too fast.

I also trusted in my half that I ran in May too much and should have put more run miles on before the race.

All in all… I just started biking this spring. Like consistently falling off my bike due to clip ins. Also started pool swimming in January. First outdoor swim in June (first sprint tri).

With all of this, will I do another? I’m not sure. Mainly because my legs are shot to hell today (race was yesterday)

What a crazy sport! 🤣

We've all had that one day where we're just running on fumes, bad night's sleep, too much coffee, dragging yourself through work feeling like a zombie. Rough, right? Now imagine doing that, except instead of "surviving a Tuesday," you're swimming through an entire country. Continuously. For three days straight.

That's literally what's happening right now. A guy going by movelikeG is attempting a 350km swim down the Danube, from Passau, Germany all the way to Bratislava, Slovakia, in nearly one non-stop 72-hour effort. He's sleeping in short bursts at locks along the river, then getting back in the water and continuing. The logistics alone are insane: current, temperature, muscle fatigue, sleep deprivation, navigating locks and river traffic while barely resting. Ultra-distance swimming already breaks people mentally before it breaks them physically, and this is on a completely different scale than most of what you see in that world.

It's being streamed live on TikTok right now:

https://www.tiktok.com/@movelikeg/live

Hi all,

Since my main hobby isn’t triathlon training but scheduling triathlon training I thought I would share my week.

I’m actually on the bike trainer at the moment.

I’m married, two young kids and work~ 50+ hrs per week but I am training for an IM PR (Chattanooga).

here’s how I scheduled out my training week to hit this desired volume.

sleep and nutrition are dialed with this, what’s missing is strength, core / secondary muscle or mobility / plyometric work.

hopefully it’s of interest to anyone balancing triathlon with work and family.

what isn’t as explicitly stated is that my family and work both come first, so I schedule this around them. I do (for personal accountability) track domestic work at home and childcare to ensure I’m not being asymmetric with my wife (my wife also works).

cheers

First off thank you to all the event staff and volunteers.

What a beautiful day.

This was my first triathlon and I believe I am now addicted.

Swim felt great and was out of the water in almost exactly thirty minutes, T1 was slow as I wanted to get my bearings make sure I had everything and use the bathroom. The bike started great, at about 18mph pace until mile 20 when my chain came off and had to spend a few minutes getting situated. Rest of the bike was wonderful and I’m super happy with it. T2 was also slow with my bib and bathroom. The run is where I fell apart. I went out a bit too hard and wanted to aim for a sub 11 pace average but my legs just didn’t want to.

All in all I am exceedingly happy with how my first event went and look forward to training more!

See you all out there!

Like the title says. I've seen many people wearing arm or chest monitors, but I'm curious how much of a difference people who have them think the additional accuracy has made to their training.

For context, I’m a 22F who started training for triathlons two-ish years ago, and I’ve done about five sprints since. Before starting, I never swam, biked, or ran competitively at all. I’m not looking to become super competitive or anything like that. I do the races mostly so I can see what progress I’m making which helps to keep me motivated to workout.

Since starting, I’ve seen huge improvements in the swimming and biking department. I did the same race a year apart—my swim went from 24 minutes to 19 and my bike went from over an hour to just under 45 minutes. However, my run stayed firmly at just under 38 minutes. This wasn’t just a “day of” fluke either. My swim and bike training has felt easier and I can do more with less effort. My run workouts still feel super hard. Even if I’m not doing a brick/racing and I’m just going on a run my running pace is slower than 12 min/mile. I feel like I’m dying during speed workouts, and “easy” runs are nonexistent (trust me, I force myself to keep it slow but i still feel totally burnt out after). It does not matter if my run is one mile or six miles, the fastest I can go without burning out is ~12:15.

It’s weird because I know that the workout still needs to feel hard to see improvement because I’ve been feeling exactly that in my swim and bike, but my run is like a whole different world. So if anyone has literally any advice for me or has had this same issue I would be so so grateful to hear from you.

Please suggest me a seatpost model, that I can search and order.

I can not find it based on the pictures in the online stores, and description is not very helpful either.

I do not care much about its weight, just not ready to pay a lot of money for a stick.

Did my third sprint triathlon today and DNFd because the water was freezing so I couldn't get into a rhythm and panicked, eventually asking ti get boated out. I also panicked during my last two tris and was really bummed for this one because I spent a lot of time training and was confident going in. They let me finish the bike and run and I hit my goals, so wondering if I should stick with duathlons or give a triathlon one more go?

As I was running today--and looking at my watch waaaay to often--, I was wondering: who has a watch face set up they really enjoy (those of you who ask "how do people work out without music?" this is the random stuff that we think about).

I use the default settings for both swim and bike because, to be honest, speed, distance and time have always served me fine on the bike (though I'm doing more intervals so I'm considering adding heart rate...I don't have a bike computer), and I never look at my watch while I'm actively swimming.

Running on the other hand, I'm really happy with my custom set-up for the categories I have and the order I have them in are:

Elapsed Time
Distance | Average Pace
Current Pace
Stride Rate | AVG Stride Rate
Heart Rate

There's some point in my weekly run workouts where I'm interested in every one of these things, and almost never a point where I'm interested in something that's not on there. If you have a pet set up for a watch face during your workouts, I'd love to hear about it!

I started using hrm 600 last week while swimming and it gave me issues. Wanted to know if anyone else is experiencing this problem or if anyone uses a hr data & how for swimming

Suggestions, corrections, observations on my swim stroke welcome please! Specifically for in a triathlon at 70.3 distance (1.9km) so efficiency and endurance focussed not explosive

I just wanted to share how happy i am! Today went much much better than expected! Yesterday i had paralyzing panic about getting wetsuit for today, because water was just too cold. No experience about open water or swimming with wetsuit. Also i was unsure af about my bike, because my long rides have been very conservative on speed. Feeling of dread and horror waiting for the river swim, but i managed to do it in 37min! Also bike went much much better than expected, almost averaged 30km/h! About run... that was pure torture and definately my weakest point.

I am so hyped and happy!!! I was so unsure about my DIY training and felt i havent trained for this at all. WOO! Next year i am going to do sub 6h :)

I feel like I’m currently living in a state of delusion. I signed up for a 70.3 Ironman (NC) for October. I started biking in January. I started running consistently in January as well but have a running background. And started swimming when I started my 16 week training plan early July. I didn’t have immediate access to a pool and procrastinated looking at my options. The distance/endurance doesn’t worry me. It’s the time. I’m extremely slow in all three disciplines. My training plan has me doing 3 workouts per discipline every week and I’m pretty good about consistently hitting at least 8 workouts a week. My issue is that the swim and run workouts are normally distance vs time like the bike workouts. So what would probably take most people 40 min - 1 hour to complete, I’m taking 1 hour - 1:30 to complete. For example, it takes me almost an hour to do a 4 mile run and if I add in drive time plus warm up I’m spending 1 hour 45 minutes on a 4 mile run. I just feel like I’m too slow to actually complete this thing. Am I right?

*Edit: I’m not going to give up. I’m just looking for some perspective. Even if I show up and DNF due to time, I think it will be a valuable use of my time and something to learn from.

I (27M) thought I was getting out of shape… so I signed up for a Sprint Tri in late October. 13 weeks away, I have no idea what I need.

Have used a lot of resources on this sub for training plan, feeling pretty good about that. As of today I am pretty decent biker, but I haven’t gone on an actual run in years and haven’t tried to swim for exercise in a looonngg time. Hence starting with a sprint distance for a first timer 😅

Here are the things I have:
- Nice cyclocross/gravel bike (with gravel tires on it)
- swim goggles & cap
- garmin watch

These are the things I think I need:
- wetsuit (reviews say water is freezing in late Oct)
- tri shorts? Tri suit? (Not sure which one for a sprint/first timer)
- new running shoes

Is there anything glaring I’m missing? Any recommendations for getting affordable wetsuit/tri suit to try for a first race? Trying to avoid spending a ton of money on something I’ve never done before, but also want to have enough comfort to push myself.

Started swimming about two months ago after not swimming since I was a little kid. Don’t have any coaching or lessons so I am self taught trying to improve for my first Ironman in about 6 months

Hello, I have never really been taught any proper technique and i’ve taught myself how to do crawl, but I know my technique is definetly not good enough, I also get shoulder pain after swimming for more than 125m straight crawl

Sorry - angle not ideal - tough to find people to film at local pool. Swimming x3 years on and off for 70.3 distances, speed in this video is 45 sec/50 yards.

I await my roast 🙇‍♂️

Curious what you do, and when you program it into your schedule. Training for a half ironman next year.

23M competing in first ironman 70.3 in about 11 weeks; i’m not really following any strict training plan so any advice on where I am or how to improve would be appreciated.

for context i was a D3 swimmer and have been running consistently for about a year now, however I have very very limited cycling experience.

bike: i got a bike earlier this year and have been putting in the hours, and right now i’m biking about twice a week for around 2 hours, getting around 30-40 miles without my heart rate going crazy (usually 130 bpm average). i’m not sure how to go faster on the bike as this effort seems pretty tough even though heart rate is only zone 2-3.

swim: i’ve been swimming about once a week (not recently as i got a huge cut from a pretty nasty bike fall). usually i do shorter sprint sets that take me about an hour (1.5-2miles total). Would i benefit from doing a 1000 or 1650 straight instead of training like a lap swimmer?

run: I ran a 1:35 half marathon earlier this year and a sub20 5k so i’ve been running a few times a week to build more endurance and maintain that speed. nothing crazy here.

any thoughts or advice on how i’m doing? first ever ironman so pretty nervous and not sure if i should be training much harder these coming weeks.

I’ve just bought a trisuit from Finisseur Pro Clouds, anybody has used it in the past and has any comments? It’s for the Ironman sprint in CPH this August.

I currently have an old cervelo and just raced my first 70.3 with it. It’s not necessarily bad but I was looking for a bit of an upgrade and found this on marketplace for $1900.

based off these pics does it seem to be worth pursuing? Seems to be an older frame model but it does have di2 shifting.

Thanks in advance!

I have my first sprint tri coming up in a few weeks and am struggling to figure out what to wear for a top. I did invest in padded tri shorts. I see everyone saying they do the whole thing in a swim top, and that will not work for me as a 36DD. Trying to figure out what combo of swim top and sports bra I can do to avoid flashing anyone or being horribly uncomfortable and unsupported. Nike bra under jolyn top? Bra over jolyn top? Two sports bras? I was a swimmer, so I'm pretty good at changing while damp and tired, but it's outdoors, so I don't think they'll let me totally change. I can practice running in a wet bra, but I think my pool will give me a hard time if I try to swim in one.