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Garmin 500 for cycling/920 for running and swimming with a soft chest strap. Power2Max power meter. I generally ride to power but have a HR ceiling I won't go over.

70.3s are the best distance. Hard, big crowds, but no 6 hour days on the bike. You can actually have a life outside of sleeping, training, eating, and work.

There are holes in the back so you can bolt your own cages on. You can run 1 straight back or 2 on the angles. Very versatile.

BTW to answer the original question I just got a Cobb JOF 55 saddle and it has the option for their own integrated rear hydration system. The platform is designed to carry a tool bag and keep it out of the wind. cobbcycling.com/shop/accessories/rear-mount-water-system

People do Ironman as a "life experience". Actually the WTC caters much of their events towards these folks.

Put them in your special needs bag? I'm not really a fan of using real food for racing. I find that it's hard to get in the amount of cals/carbs/sodium that I need for the distance and it's hard to transport that amount of food.

That's because tri race wheels are all about aero and little about weight. BTW the cheapest way to go about getting a race wheel set is to get a used front 606/808/HED3, and a disc cover for your existing rear wheel.

Unless you're doing the Alpe d'Huez Triathlon do it on a tri bike.

Tri bike. A well fit tri bike hides the largest object causing drag, the athlete, from the wind. Yes race wheels will make you faster, but not that much faster. Plus if you make friends in the tri world you can borrow race wheels.

It depends. If I don't need the rear bottle holder I run an Xlab mini bag that attaches to the rails. I have stuffed everything in an aero bottle on the frame. I've also put all my nutrition in my kit pockets and used my bento box for tube/tools.

Normally with a cold (and I assume cold medicine) you get a higher HR than normal, not lower. Not being able to get your HR up and sessions being more difficult than usual has rest week/over training written all over it to me.

Swim- Time. I really don't care about pace until afterwards so just time here Bike- Total time. 3 second power. HR. Pace. Distance Run- Time. HR. Distance. Pace

It's not easy to do what you're talking about. It takes a ton of patience. I find that you need to know your zones and be a slave to the data. In a 5 zone system do A TON of work in Z2 running. A bunch of work in the top of Z2/bottom of Z3 on the bike. Do a lot of your base work in the morning and fasted. The more…

I have a Power2Max and love it. Power Tap just released a ton of different options too. Quarq is always a trusted option. All work with Garmin watches/bike CPUs

All power meters that are Ant+ compatible will read on a Garmin bike CPU

I'll be interested to see the implications of Challenge eliminating pro purses has on their future. Hope they continue to grow and this is a minor set back.

I've run a few and have attended 2 or 3. It's a great way to figure out exactly where you stand on skills and have qualified folks to bounce ideas off of. Also you get a few days of focused work and fellowship with other triathletes.

Or put your long run mid week. Long course triathlon training is ALL about consistency. Runners will say "my goal is XX miles this month", a normal age grouper who has other responsibilities should be "my goal is to get 90% of my scheduled workouts in."

If you want to. Just be very cognizant of the added recovery needs coming out the back end. I'd rather an athlete be able to wake up and execute the next day's workout correctly, but if you feel the need go for it.

I generally have my athletes run 25-35 minutes off the bike with their long rides. The main goal is to learn to get your HR under control off the bike and find a groove. There are zero physiological benefits to doing LONG bricks.

Ironman Texas Shadow Creek Ranch Sprint Cypress Sprint Redman 70.3 which is also the US Long Course Nationals Ironman Florida

As someone who does 8-20 hours of cardio per week I can say without a doubt that walking has zero effect on building muscle. Lift , eat at a surplus, put on muscle.

Yeah I can't stress that enough. Each athlete is different. I coach athletes that came from a distance running background and can go ALL DAY LONG so what they really need is a ratio of power and speed work to base work that is skewed towards power and speed. I was a power lifter prior to finding triathlon. I've spent YEARS…

2 great blog posts on cadence from arguably the preeminent coach in triathlon: http://trisutto.com/come-in-spinner-the-bike-cadence-debate/ http://trisutto.com/top-gear-the-bike-cadence-debate-continued/

Just as an example template a 20 week 70.3 or 140.6 template might look like this: Weeks 1-4: Base 1 Week 5: Testing Weeks 6-9: Base 2 Week 10-12: Power Endurance (Hill Repeats, Low Cadence intervals, etc) Week 13: Testing Week 14-16: Speed Endurance (distance repeats up to 5k, tempo intervals, etc.) Week 17-18: Race…

Actually periodization works great. Generally programming out in 3-6 week blocks. Base blocks last longer than speed focused ones because they take less of a toll on the body. It really just depends on the individual athlete as to how you cobble blocks of training together. You have to take strengths/weaknesses/ability to…

This is very important. Being at the right angles takes a lot of the stress of the skeletal system and puts it into the muscles. Body position, cleat position, crank length, all very important.

I don't think it's too much either. As long as you can lay out a logical plan that builds towards multiple goals you should be fine. You should also mentally prioritize goals so that if one needs to be sacrificed because of injury or a life event it doesn't become a major stressor.

I have a coach. She's in CT and I'm in TX but it works for me. I train at 4:30/5 AM during the week so training with other people is a bit over rated for me. I do my long rides on the weekends "with" folks from my tri club or athletes I coach or I go by myself. My workouts are tailored to what I need so I generally start…