Outdoors

Most triathletes I’ve coached over the years didn’t grow up as swimmers. They ran cross country in high school, or they picked up cycling in their twenties, and then triathlon pulled them into a pool for the first time as adults. If that sounds like you, welcome to the club. The swim is the leg…

You can run a decent 10K. You can hold a solid pace on your bike for two hours. So a triathlon should be simple, right? Not quite. The swim, bike, run combo tests you in ways single-sport training never does. Runners often struggle in the water and misjudge the bike leg. Cyclists frequently blow up…