If your feed has been full of grainy race photos and an unfamiliar gel wrapper this summer, you’re not imagining it. Riders at the Tour de France, and the team behind Yomif Kejelcha’s world-record marathon debut, are both talking about the same ingredient. For decades, coaches blamed lactate for the burn in your legs and
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Buying gear for a swimmer is harder than it looks if you don’t swim yourself. Goggles fog, caps rip, and half the accessories on Amazon look more like torture devices than training tools. The good news is that swimmers actually use a short, predictable list of gear, and most of it is cheap. If you’re
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You open your plan and it says “tempo run.” Your training partner’s plan says “threshold run.” You compare notes and realize you might be doing the same workout, or two completely different ones, and neither of you is sure. It gets worse when you read three articles and get three answers. The terms get thrown
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If you’ve done a 70.3 and you’re eyeing a T100 race, you’ve probably noticed the marketing. Pro athletes, big prize money, a course you supposedly get to share with the best in the world. It sounds like the next level up. I went straight to Lucas, a training partner of mine who’s raced two Ironman
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If you have spent any time around triathlon, you have heard someone say “Kona” in a slightly lowered voice, like they are talking about a place that might not actually exist. It is the race people build a decade of training around. It is also one of the most misunderstood events in the sport, partly
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You felt the twinge, ignored it for a week, and now you cannot run without limping. The first thing most of us panic about is not the injury itself. It is the fitness we imagine draining away by the hour. Here is the reassuring part: you lose it slower than you fear, and most of
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I bought the Favero Assioma Pro RL to put on my triathlon bike for a couple of specific reasons. My road bike is already running Look Keo pedals, and switching to a different cleat standard would have meant keeping two sets of shoes. A crank-based power meter wasn’t the right fit either, because with pedal-based
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Choosing a GPS watch for triathlon used to mean defaulting to Garmin and spending whatever it cost. That’s no longer true. COROS and Suunto have both released genuinely capable mid-range watches that handle swim-bike-run transitions, dual-band GPS, and real training data. The hard part now is knowing which one is actually worth buying for how
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The swim is the discipline most triathletes improve the least between races. A coach on deck helps, but most self-coached athletes never get that kind of feedback. Smart swim goggles put real-time data in your line of sight while you swim: pace, stroke rate, heart rate, and in open water, a compass that keeps you
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You lace up for an easy run. Comfortable pace, normal effort. Then you glance at your watch and your heart rate is sitting at 168 bpm. That is not a Zone 2 number. You slow down, it drops a bit, but the moment you hit any kind of incline or mild headwind it creeps straight
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