Your First Triathlon
Just sign up! Really, I know you might be nervous, but trust me, the rewards and feelings you will get after your first triathlon will far outweigh the pain of training or the race itself. In fact, during my first triathlon I was so exhilarated that I didn’t even feel pain and had a smile on my face the entire time! So if you are even thinking about running a triathlon, go for it.
Brick Workouts for Triathlon Prep
What is a Brick Workout? What is a Brick Workout you ask? Simply put, a brick workout is a term used to define training in back to back events. This could describe a variety of events, but for the purposes of Triathlon Prep I would define it as a swim, bike, or run workout immediately [...]
Triathlon Packing List
Make Sure You’ve Got What You Need You’ve spent months preparing for your race, so the last thing you need is to have your mind elsewhere hoping you didn’t forget something. You have to have your mind on the race, so we’ve prepared a checklist of things to bring for your triathlon so you can [...]
Buying A Road Bike
Used or New, What’s the Difference? So you are ready to make the big jump and buy a road bike eh? Well first let me say that if you’ve been using a mountain bike for triathlons and just can’t take it anymore, don’t feel bad because I’ve been in the same place! I use a [...]
Increase Speed in the Water
How to Get Faster in the Water We all want to be better swimmers, but for most triathletes, the swim is an event that you just try to get through in order to catch up in your two strongest events, the bike and run. Like many of you, I used to get nervous when I [...]
Olympic Triathlons
Intermediate Triathlon The Olympic Triathlon steps it up a bit from its little brother, the Sprint Triathlon by doubling the size of each event. The Olympic Triathlon made its impact in the 2000 Sydney Olympics as the official “Olympic Triathlon,” and has become the official Triathlon event since.
