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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐈𝐇𝐀𝐈 𝐖𝐀𝐕𝐄
A weekend of breakthroughs.
Max is back. The Chinese team stepped up. And four years of hard work finally started showing where it matters most, on the race course.

Is this the start of a great Chinese wave?
Not yet.
But is the future bright? You bet it is.

Read the story behind a very special weekend for Trisutto in The Weihai Wave. 🌊🇨🇳

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Does triathlon add more to my life than it takes away?

It was 2 a.m., four hours into a wait at the airport, with another 14-hour flight still ahead of me, when a surprise Business Class upgrade at the gate was a wonderful gift.

But it got me thinking. Business Class is still, in many ways, just a more comfortable version of economy. You still travel to the airport when they tell you. You still queue for security and immigration. You still sit around waiting. You still leave when they decide and land where their airport happens to be.

The real luxury of a private jet isn’t the seat or the food. It’s buying back your time, avoiding much of the above. I see the same thing with the athletes I coach.

The younger ones, or those newer to the sport, are chasing PBs. Training hard to unlock the next improvement in performance. That's how you find out what you’re capable of. However, the athletes I’ve worked with longest, particularly those in their 50s and 60s, start to think about time differently. Not because they’ve gone soft. Because at some point you start doing the maths on how many good, healthy years you’ve actually got left. And it changes what you’re willing to spend them on.

For years, success in triathlon has been measured by more. More training. More races. Another Ironman. Another medal. Another qualification. Another finish line. But the question eventually becomes: which experiences are actually worth spending my good years on? Fewer races, maybe. But better ones. Somewhere I actually want to be. With people I actually want to be there with.

The same applies to training. I’m a great believer in getting the work done. But not every hour has to be justified by physiological adaptation. A two-hour ride on a beautiful morning isn’t wasted time just because 75 minutes on the turbo might produce the same training effect. I might actually enjoy those two hours. That ride is part of the life I’m trying to build. Three hours staring at a garage wall because a programme says I need more volume is a different thing entirely. Those are three hours I don’t get back.

So the objective changes as we get older. Don’t simply maximise performance. Maximise the return on the time invested. At the end of a season, perhaps there’s a better question to ask than how fast we went.

Does triathlon add more to my life than it takes away?

Many triathletes work so hard in the swim that their legs are already paying the price before the bike begins.

Place-Press-Push is a Trisutto swim technique built around efficient, arm-led swimming, helping you move through the water while keeping your legs fresher for the rest of the race.

The result is a calmer swim start, better control and more confidence when the effort continues beyond the pool. It is a coach-led approach used successfully by world champions, but it is just as valuable for anyone preparing for their first triathlon.

Progress comes from desire, discipline, dedication, determination and detail : not from expensive gadgets or sporting ego. Success is not winning every session. It is becoming a little more capable, confident and consistent each week.

Want to improve your swim in a friendly, supportive environment? Join our weekly swim coaching sessions in Crowle. Message us to find out more.

Congratulations Dieske, 2x National Champion 🏆

National Champion Crosstriathlon! 🤩🇳🇱🎉

Super happy to have convincingly defended my title from 2025!

Just six days after my half distance race and in the middle of a big training block, I went hard from start to finish and it paid off. It hasn’t always been easy lately, which makes me extra happy with this result 🔥

Renkum is a special race to me and I really enjoyed the day with family, fellow athletes and friends 😊🫶🏼

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Congratulations Michelle, rising to the occasion with a well-deserved victory at the Long Course Super Tri in Weihai. (3/100/25) 🥇👏🇨🇳

Breaking into the WTCS Top 10. Fantastic effort and result Lin! Congratulations 👏🇨🇳

A historic day in Weihai for Indonesian 🇮🇩 Triathlon as Martina makes her WTCS debut.
Congratulations Martina, finishing 29th with the 3rd fastest bike split of the day 👏
pratiwii

A big congratulations to the Team China 🇨🇳 Men’s team in Weihai, smashing the previous best results at WTCS races.
Jerry 16th
Fan 24th
Little Tiger 30th

In a post‑race interview, the men’s winner, Max Studer expressed his gratitude to the Chinese triathlon team:

“𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴, 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘪. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩‑𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱.”