Your friends head out for an easy run and chat their way through 5:30 kilometres. You try the same thing with a heart rate cap and end up at 7:00, watch beeping, feeling like you’re barely moving. It’s easy to assume your zones are broken, or your body is. Usually neither is true. There are
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You pull your bike out of the travel case at the hotel and something’s off. Shifting hesitates, a hanger looks bent, or there’s a clunk that wasn’t there on your last ride at home. A mechanical during race week feels different from one during training. There’s no home shop with your maintenance history on file,
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There’s no single “easiest Ironman 70.3.” Depending on which leg gives you the most trouble, swimming, biking, or running, a completely different race is the right call. A lot of “easiest 70.3” roundups also treat a current-assisted swim as one race’s unique selling point, when it’s actually a fairly common course feature. Augusta, Washington Tri-Cities,
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Store-bought carb drinks add up fast once you’re training more than a few hours a week. A single serving of Precision Fuel PF60 or Maurten Drink Mix 160 runs $3 to $5, and if you’re doing back-to-back long rides or brick sessions, that adds up over a season. I started mixing my own a while
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Buying gear for a new cyclist is a minefield. Bike shops love to upsell, Amazon reviews are half fake, and everyone with a road bike has an opinion on what a beginner “needs” on day one. I’ve been riding long enough to know what actually gets used and what ends up sitting in a drawer
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Most people sign up for a sprint triathlon before they’re ready. That’s fine. That’s how it should work. The trouble starts when they look for a plan and find either something built for athletes already training 10 hours a week, or a patchwork of Reddit advice. This is a free 12-week sprint triathlon training plan
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I’ve been quietly stalking Canyon Grizl builds for a few months now, telling myself it’s just research for The Rift or Unbound, not an actual commitment. The more Unbound race reports I read, the less it sounded like a straightforward physical test and the more it sounded like something closer to respect than a PR
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Plenty of triathletes set one zone 2 heart rate and use it everywhere: same number on the bike, same number on the run, same number for every easy session in between. Then the ride feels suspiciously comfortable while the legs burn out before the watch says anything, or the recovery run somehow drifts ten beats
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Ironman gets the marketing budget. T100 gets the highlight reel and the pro prize money. But some of the most legendary races in the sport happen well outside either series, and if you’ve read our breakdown of T100 vs 70.3, you already know these branded tours don’t own triathlon, they just own the marketing. Once
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Zone 2 has had a strange couple of years. It went from a training zone triathletes used quietly to a thing longevity podcasters talk about like it’s a supplement. Somewhere in that jump, a few claims got repeated so often they started sounding like settled fact. Some of them are not. I went through the
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