Buying gear for a runner sounds easy until you realize they probably already own the essentials. The shoes are sorted. There’s a drawer full of race shirts they’ll never wear again. The GPS watch has been on their wrist since their third half marathon. What they’re missing is the stuff that fills the gaps: the […]
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Walk into any running store and you’ll hear that cramping is a sodium problem. Scroll Reddit for five minutes and you’ll find someone telling you salt pills are a scam. Both sides sound certain, and both sides have numbers. If you’ve ever stood at the start line wondering whether you actually need that second electrolyte
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The pool is predictable. You can see the bottom, the lane ropes keep you straight, and nobody is splashing you in the face. Open water is a different sport. It looks the same from the shore, but once you’re in it, everything you thought you knew about swimming gets tested. Including your ability to stay
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You’ve watched enough race footage to know every pro is running with something tucked in their kit. The brands are everywhere: Maurten at Boston, GU at every aid station, Precision Fuel on the Tour. So you Google it, land on a wall of options, and realise nobody’s actually told you what makes one gel different
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Typing “make me a 12-week training plan” into ChatGPT will get you something back. It might look plausible. It might even be vaguely appropriate for someone. But it probably won’t be appropriate for you: your fitness level, your injury history, your schedule, your goal race. The output is only as good as what you put
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Shopping for a triathlete is harder than it looks. They’re particular about their gear, they’ve already bought the essentials, and if you get it wrong you’re basically giving them a paperweight. The good news: there’s a whole category of useful stuff that most triathletes want but never get around to buying themselves. These are the
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You’re somewhere on the run course. Your legs feel like wet cement, or maybe one calf just locked up so hard you had to stop moving. Either way, something has gone badly wrong. These are two of the most common ways a triathlon falls apart — bonking and cramping — and a lot of athletes
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Most people overthink gear before their first triathlon. They see the pros on Instagram and assume they need a $5,000 bike, a full aero kit, and more gadgets than a Formula One car. You don’t. A sprint triathlon is a 750m swim, 20km bike, and 5km run. Not Kona. If you already own running shoes
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Your GPS watch has heart rate zones. Your training plan probably references them. But if you’ve ever finished a “Zone 2” run feeling like you just raced, or cruised through a threshold workout wondering if you even did anything — your zones are probably wrong. Most are. The default settings on watches and apps are
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Race morning has a way of making everything feel more complicated than it is. You’ve trained for months, you know the course, and your gear is ready. But now you’re standing in the kitchen at 5:30am wondering if you can eat, and if so, what. Get this wrong and you risk feeling sluggish on the
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