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10/10/2026

3 things I would change if I started my IRONMAN journey again.

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1. I would run my easy runs much slower. Running every session at the same medium effort is the most common mistake I see, and it is an easy one to fall into early on.

2. I would practise race nutrition from the first long ride, not the last month. Your gut takes weeks to adapt, and the earlier you start the more options you have.

3. I would get help with structure earlier, instead of guessing. Knowing what each session is for makes the whole journey simpler.

What would you change if you started again?

10/08/2026

4 ways to fit IRONMAN training around a 50-hour work week.

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1. Protect the long weekend sessions. Everything else in the week supports those two.

2. Use short, specific midweek sessions. Forty-five focused minutes beats ninety aimless ones.

3. Commute by bike or run when you can. It turns dead time into training time.

4. Have a fallback version of each session for the weeks when work takes over.

What is the hardest part of training around your job?

10/06/2026

5 things that decide whether you run or walk the IRONMAN marathon.

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1. How hard you rode. Most walking on the run is a bike pacing problem showing up late in the race.

2. Whether you kept eating on the bike. Fuel taken at hour five pays you back at hour nine.

3. Your plan for aid stations. Walking them on purpose is often faster than fading between them.

4. How you handle the first 5km. If it feels easy, that is the correct pace.

5. Whether your long runs ever happened on tired legs. The marathon starts after 120 miles of other work.

10/02/2026

If you're training for an IRONMAN and you can't hold a conversation on your run, you're going too hard.

When I first started training for an Ironman, I ran every single run like it was a race. It didn't make me faster. It just left me tired for the sessions that actually mattered: the long runs and the hard days.

If you're training for something long, like an IRONMAN, a 70.3 or any triathlon, most of your training should be at a conversational pace. Push every run and you're heading for injury and burnout.

Training for a fast 5K? Different story. But for endurance, easy is where the magic happens.

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09/30/2026

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5 things that separate a finisher from a DNF .

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1. They fuelled early and kept fuelling. Most DNFs on a hot day start as a nutrition problem four hours earlier.

2. They paced the first hour on the bike with restraint, even while being passed.

3. They planned for the dark patch rather than being surprised by it.

4. They practised the things that go wrong. A dropped bottle, a flat, a wetsuit that will not come off.

5. They had permission to slow down. Athletes who believe slowing is failure are the ones who stop entirely.

Finishing is a skill, not a fitness threshold.

What is your next race?

09/27/2026

4 things that change in your second IRONMAN.

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1. The fear moves. You are no longer scared of finishing. You are scared of a time.

2. Your easy days get harder to protect, because you now believe you can handle more.

3. Nutrition becomes the limiter instead of fitness. This is where most second timers find their improvement.

4. The training gets lonelier, because the novelty that carried you through the first one has gone.

The second one is a different problem to solve.

How did the first one go?

09/24/2026

3 things that decide your swim before you get in the water.

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1. Where you seed yourself. Go honestly. Starting ahead of your pace means being swum over, and panic costs more than position ever gains.

2. Whether you have practised a mass start. Contact is the thing that frightens people, not distance. It can be rehearsed with a few friends in open water.

3. Your first 200 metres. Adrenaline spikes your heart rate and breathing at the gun. Going out controlled for two minutes settles the entire swim.

The distance is almost never the problem. The first two minutes are.

How is your open water confidence right now?

09/22/2026

5 things that break down in the heat that never break in training.

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1. Your sweat rate doubles and your usual bottle count is suddenly wrong. Most athletes plan fluid for the conditions they trained in.

2. Sodium becomes the limiter, not water. Drinking more plain water in heat causes its own problem and it is a dangerous
one.
3. Your stomach shuts down. Blood goes to the skin to cool you and away from digestion, so the fuelling plan that worked in March stops working in July.

4. Heart rate drifts at the same pace. If you are pacing to heart rate you will end up slowing far more than you need to.

5. Your goal time stops being realistic and you refuse to accept it. Adjusting early is what saves the day. Heat acclimatisation takes about two weeks and almost nobody plans it.

What conditions is your race likely to be?

Another great weekend for our TriFocus Athletes with 6 athletes completing their first IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 races. E...
09/22/2026

Another great weekend for our TriFocus Athletes with 6 athletes completing their first IRONMAN and IRONMAN 70.3 races.

Eva and Mark Lubbe completed IRONMAN Maryland and what a power couple those two are. From not being able to swim 25m 7 months ago to the achieving the ultimate title in Triathlon. They put in the work and earned every praise they got.

Erika Tuttle, Kaden Meier, Zach Santmier completed IRONMAN 70.3 Michigan. These 3 all had the grit and determination to cross through that finish line strong 💪 all 3 had been working hard in their training and we are proud of how far they’ve came.

Juan completed IRONMAN 70.3 Tri-City. He persevered through a tough day and was able to finish strong.

TriFocus is lucky to have such a great group of athletes training and achieving their IRONMAN dreams. If you’re interested in joining the team, schedule a call today 📞

09/19/2026

5 things that go wrong on your first 100-mile ride.

1. You go out at group ride pace and pay for it after mile 60. The first two hours should feel almost too easy. If they do not, the last two hours will be a slow negotiation with your legs.

2. You under-eat because you are not hungry. Hunger arrives after the damage is done. Set an alarm and eat every 20 to 30 minutes from the first hour, whether you feel like it or not.

3. You run out of water before you run out of road. Plan your refill stops before you leave the house. A 100-mile ride in warm weather can need six bottles or more.

4. Your saddle and your bike fit start to argue with you around hour four. Nothing you can do on the day fixes that. Get the fit sorted weeks out.

5. You forget that you have to run afterwards. Even a 20-minute jog off the bike teaches you more about race day than the ride itself.

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