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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Nomio has shown up on a lot of start lines this year. Mads Pedersen credits it with his best 90-minute ride ever. Cole Hocker took a shot before a 5K world title. A concentrated broccoli sprout extract selling for around $28 for four doses is now a fixture in pro team fridges, and it is
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Type “how to find zone 2” into any search bar and you’ll get four different formulas within the first five results, each claiming to be the correct one. One site tells you to subtract your age from 220 and take 60 to 70 percent. Another swears by 180 minus your age. A third wants you
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You just crossed the line at your first Olympic distance race, and the 70.3 is already living in your head. Everyone says it’s a step up, but nobody tells you what that actually means week to week. Is it just more of the same sessions, stretched longer? I’m going through that exact jump myself right
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Search T100 Vancouver and most of what comes up is written for the 100km distance: the pros, the broadcast schedule, the Age Group World Championship qualifiers. If you’re actually trying to figure out whether the Olympic distance is worth your race weekend, none of that helps much. I raced it myself in August 2026 with
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Every triathlete with a power meter eventually asks the same question in transition: how hard can you actually go? Ride too easy and you leave time on the table. Ride too hard and the run turns into a survival shuffle by kilometre three. The gap between those two outcomes usually comes down to one number,
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