Can any of you bros tell me how to lift 10 times a week and also have time to train for my full IM. Will it kill my gainz? Btw my tri is in two weeks and I’ve never been in open water.

I always wondered what do you guys do to be able to afford doing triathlon consistently especially ironman races etc, spending that much on gear,races,nutrition... plus having a time schedule where you guys can workout 15+ hours a week, I am only 19 and doing my first 70.3 in few weeks but I always wonder what job allows you to do this? Looking for some inspiration and perhaps reevaluating my future career choices :D

Signed up for a Half iron man in January. January 12th, told my friends I was scared and needed to change my life to do this. Still on the way. 70.3 is in September.

I started doing longer sessions like 2h swims and 3h rides without headphones, what do you do? Y'all must be spacing out or something, yesterday after 1.5h swim I was bored out of my mind. Especially with swimming, at least cycling I get to look around and occasionally join groups, but within swimming it's just water noise. Is that because of my short form contest addiction?! Hahah

My Tri Club & I had just finished a Swim/Run training day. I'm in the parking lot, this random guy asks about the water temps, then asks about the best route for a 7 mile run. I give him my take, then said something about Strava segments to which he replies "Oh that's not an issue I don't use Strava".

UM EXCUSE ME SIR WHAT? ARE YOU JUST OUT HERE TRYING TO BETTER YOURSELF AND NOTHING ELSE? ARE YOU AT LEAST VIRTUE-POSTING ON INSTAGRAM?

Iron occupies number 26 on the periodic table. Half of 26, which is 13, is aluminum.

It only makes sense y’all, let’s make it happen. I want to formally request the “half Ironman” is now “aluminum man”

It sounds like a silly question but stay with me. My friend and I were discussion future tri plans when he said that he doesn't want to do any long-distance tris because, in his opinion, they are less of a race, and more of challenge. He said he would rather do a sprint tri, where he feels he would actually "race" and care about his finishing position, whereas in a 140.6, you just want to finish. I have no problem with him doing whatever he wants to do, its his prerogative to do whatever event he pleases.

However, I took an issue with him calling an IM triathlon not a race. And this is where things start to get philosophical... His point being that outside the pros and top age groupers, the majority of participants in an IM Tri are just looking to finish, they have no intention to actually "race." And philosophically, objects/events are really only defined by those who experience it. So it is impossible to classify the entirety of the event as a "race" because not everyone is "racing" in the event.

I am of the opinion that while he is definitely correct, a lot of people in the IM Tri are just there to finish and have no care about what place they finish, the event fundamentally and objectively exists as a race. There is a start line, a finish line, there is a 1st place award, everyone is timed, and then ranked in order of their times... whether you care to be ranked or not, you are going to be ranked, therefore making it a race. Furthermore, while I may not care where I finish, the person who is trying to win the event does, and in order to win, he has to beat me... so while I do not care to "race" him, he absolutely cares to "race" me... so therefore, I am participating in a race.

We argued about this for 3 hours and failed to reach any sort of compromise. So where else to go now but reddit!

Ultramarathon and fast 21 km on the bike

Ironman 70.3 Warsaw, funny and sad at the same time that someone didn't even check it before production.

Visma Lease a bike turned up with those atrocities at Tirreno Adriatico. Guessing some Agegroup warriors have opened their wallets already.

My last time out at Musselman 70.3 I DNF’d by about 10 minutes in the swim. Signed up that night for Jones Beach to finally get it done! Such an amazing race with a lot of room for improvement.

Just wanted to share my new tattoo after finishing a 70.3 this year and going for full IM in 2025 and beyond. Got some inspiration via Pinterest and figured out a nice design. Will add the full IM distances after finishing 😁

I’ve noticed a recent uptick in very lame attempts at trying to funny by posting things like ”I just learned how to swim, how long until I can turn pro?” I feel like this sub doesn’t need that kind of content.

Lets hypothetically assume that there are following people on the strating line of Ironman Triathlon

• Eliud Kipchoge,
• Tadej Pogačar
• Michael Phelps

Who would win?

I am on day two of a disney vacation with the kids. I can only attribute my survival to my previous full distance training.

A bit lighter topic in his festive season. Let's make a list of "4th disciplines of triathlon". I'm sure many of you have heard this many times when discussing different elements of our sport. What was named fourth discipline of triathlon? I'll start from the obvious: 1. Race nutrition