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Triathlon5 min read Three Sports, One Body, One Week The instinct is to divide your time evenly between the three disciplines. That is close to the worst possible allocation, and here is what to do instead. Read the piece → Triathlon6 min read Training Systems vs Goals: What Creates Consistency? Everyone on the start line wanted to finish, so the goal was never what separated them. What a system is, and how to build one in four questions. Triathlon6 min read Four Minutes You Can Have for Free. I watched an athlete lose three and a half minutes in transition at a race he finished eleven seconds off a podium. Nobody trains the cheapest time. Triathlon6 min read Your First Triathlon. Nobody warns you about the body marking, the cold, or the fact that everybody looks like they know what they are doing. They do not. Here is the hones Triathlon6 min read Triathlon Brick Sessions: Types, Purpose and Timing Most athletes do one kind of brick, a long ride with a short jog tacked on, and call it done. There are five, and they train completely different thin Triathlon5 min read Free Ironman Training Resources: What Actually Works You can absolutely prepare for a full distance using free material. Here is what free does well, the two places it will let you down, and how to cover them. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Ironman Race-Day Nutrition Without Stomach Problems The single most common reason people have a bad day. What to eat, how much, when, and the mistake that ruins more races than under-eating does. Read the piece → Triathlon8 min read Heat Acclimatisation for Triathletes in Cold Countries Heat is the cheapest adaptation available to a British triathlete. What it actually changes, two protocols that fit around normal training, and how fa Triathlon5 min read Choosing a First Ironman Plan There is no best plan. There is a plan that matches your available hours and your starting point, and four things it has to contain. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Triathlon Pacing Across the Swim, Bike and Run The run split is written on the bike, and the bike is written in the first four hundred metres. By the time you feel the mistake, you made it an hour Triathlon5 min read Starting When You Are Not an Athlete Everyone in this sport started somewhere, and the successful beginnings look almost nothing like the plans people download. The first twelve weeks matter most. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Race Week Is Where People Unravel. Eleven months of good work, then seven days of panic. Almost everything that goes wrong in race week is somebody trying to help themselves. Triathlon4 min read Half Ironman vs Full Ironman Training: What Changes? The distance doubles. The training does not, and the parts that change are not the ones people prepare for. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Should You Do a Sprint First? Yes, and not for the reason people assume. A sprint teaches you almost nothing about endurance and almost everything about racing. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Eating Enough Without Spending a Fortune Heavy training weeks demand a lot of food, and the standard advice is expensive. What actually matters, what does not, and how to do it cheaply. Read the piece → Triathlon6 min read Fuelling, Sprint to Full Distance. A sprint needs almost nothing. A full distance needs a plan you have rehearsed for months. Most fuelling disasters are a gut that was never trained to Triathlon4 min read The Four Things You Actually Need Triathlon is very good at selling you things. Here is the genuine minimum, the handful of upgrades worth having, and the money most people waste. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read The Off Season Is Not Time Off. What you do in the eight weeks after your last race decides more about next season than anything you do in spring. Most people either stop entirely or Triathlon4 min read Doing This on a Normal Salary Triathlon has an expensive reputation and it earns it. It also has a genuine budget version, and the difference between them is about four decisions. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Training Around a Job That Owns You. Ten hours a week, done consistently, beats fifteen hours done for three weeks and then abandoned. The plan has to fit the life you have rather than th Triathlon4 min read Best Time of Day to Train for Triathlon The physiology says late afternoon. The evidence from actual working parents says something completely different, and the physiology loses. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read The 80/20 Rule, and Why Most People Get It Backwards Eighty percent easy, twenty percent hard. Almost everyone who tries this fails at the same point, and it is not the twenty percent. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Training for an Ironman Without a Coach Most people do not. But the argument that coaches are unnecessary and the argument that they are transformative are both right, about different things. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Minimum Training Needed to Finish an Ironman People finish full-distance races on six or seven hours a week. Here is the genuine floor, what has to be in it, and what it costs you. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read What Is a Good First Ironman Finish Time? The honest distribution of first-time finish times, why the number you have in your head is probably too fast, and the only time goal worth setting. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Ironman DNF Rates: How Many Athletes Actually Finish? Fewer than you fear on race day, and far more than anyone counts in the eight months before it. The failures that matter happen long before the start line. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read The Real DNF Numbers Around eight percent of starters do not finish a full distance. The variation between races is far more interesting than the average, and it is almost entirely weather. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Why Athletes Do Not Finish an Ironman It is almost never fitness. Two things end most Ironman days, and both are entirely fixable in training. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read How Much Does an Ironman Really Cost? Entry, bike, wetsuit, travel, pool, food and the things nobody warns you about. The honest total, and the version that costs a third of it. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read There Is No Easy Ironman, But Some Are Kinder What actually makes a first Ironman course forgiving. Elevation is only the fourth most important thing on the list. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Can You Do an Ironman With No Racing Experience? You do not need a racing background to finish an Ironman. You do need to have solved four specific problems before race morning, and none of them are fitness. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read There Is No Ironman Body Walk any full-distance finish line and the range of shapes crossing it will surprise you. What body composition actually predicts, and what it does not. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Can You Do an Ironman With a Full-Time Job? Yes, and thousands of people do it every year. The question is not whether the training fits in your week. It is whether the recovery does. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read How Many Hours a Week Does Ironman Training Take? Ten hours a week is the number everyone repeats. It is an average across months, not a weekly constant, and it is not the number that matters most. Read the piece → Triathlon4 min read Ironman Training Schedule for a 9-to-5 Job The actual weekly structure I give athletes who work office hours. Where the sessions go, why the order matters, and the two-a-day trap that ends most blocks. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read What Kind of Job Actually Lets You Train for an Ironman? It is not about how many hours you work. Three things predict whether a job and an Ironman can coexist, and hours is only one of them. Read the piece → Triathlon5 min read Ironman Training on a Body That Already Works Builders, nurses, warehouse staff and anyone on their feet all day. Your job is training volume you did not log, and it has to come out of the plan somewhere. Read the piece → Triathlon10 min read Online Triathlon Coaching UK: What to Look For (and What to Avoid) What separates real online triathlon coaching from a PDF plan and a WhatsApp group. A no-nonsense guide for UK triathletes choosing a coach.