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09/24/2026

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

Comment COACH for a free coaching consultation if the swim is the part that worries you.

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.

Comment COACH for a free coaching consultation and we will heat proof your plan.

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.

What surprised you on your first century? Drop it below.

09/17/2026

4 things your first half IRONMAN teaches you that a marathon cannot.

1. How to run on someone else's legs. After 56 miles on the bike the run is a different sport. No marathon prepares you for the first mile off the bike.

2. That fuelling is a skill, not a snack. A marathon can be survived on adrenaline and a few gels. A 70.3 cannot. You learn very quickly whether your nutrition plan was real.

3. How to be calm in a crowd of thrashing arms. The swim start teaches you something about yourself no start line on a road ever will.

4. That you can hold back and still finish strong. The athletes who do well on the 70.3 run are the ones who rode conservatively. That lesson changes how you approach every race after it.

What did your first Half IRONMAN teach you?

09/15/2026

4 things that actually matter in your first month of IRONMAN training.

1. Showing up, not showing off. The first month is about building the habit of training on the days you do not feel like it. Fitness comes later. Consistency is the whole job right now.

2. Learning what easy actually feels like. Most new athletes cannot go slowly enough. If you can hold a full conversation, you are close. If you cannot, slow down.

3. Getting in open water at least once. Not to swim far. Just to find out how it feels before it matters.

4. Telling the people in your life what the next nine months look like. Weekend mornings change. The earlier that conversation happens, the easier the rest of the year is.

What do you wish you had done in your first month?

09/13/2026

4 questions to answer before you pick your first IRONMAN race.

1. How many months do you actually have? A first full IRONMAN needs nine to twelve months of consistent training. Picking a race six months out because it is close to home is how people end up under-prepared and injured.

2. Can you train in the conditions the race will throw at you? A hot, hilly course in September is a hard choice for someone training through a cold winter with no hills. Match the course to the training you can realistically do.

3. What does the swim look like? A calm lake with a rolling start is a very different first race to a choppy ocean with a mass start. If open water worries you, choose the lake.

4. Who is coming with you? Race week is long and race day is longer. Having someone at the finish changes the experience. Choose a race the people in your life can get to.

Which race did you pick first, and would you pick it again?

09/11/2026

5 signs you are training too hard for your first IRONMAN.

1. Your easy runs are getting slower at the same heart rate. That is fatigue, not a fitness problem. More work will make it worse.

2. You are waking before the alarm and not falling back to sleep. Poor sleep in the middle of a training block is one of the earliest warnings the body gives.

3. You have stopped looking forward to sessions. Not the odd bad day. Weeks of it.

4. Your resting heart rate has crept up five to ten beats. Check it in the morning before you move. It does not lie.

5. Small niggles are not clearing. A tight calf that lasts three weeks is not a calf problem. It is a load problem.

Which of these have you ignored? Most of us have.

09/09/2026

3 things to stop doing in the last two weeks before your IRONMAN.

1. Stop adding sessions. The work is done. Anything you squeeze in now cannot make you fitter by race day, but it can absolutely make you tired. A taper is a reduction in volume, not a last chance to catch up.

2. Stop testing new things. New shoes, new gels, a new saddle position, a new wetsuit. If it has not been through a long session already, it does not go near race day.

3. Stop comparing your taper to other people's. Some athletes cut volume by half. Some keep a little more intensity. Yours was built for your body and your training block. Trust it.

What was the hardest part of your taper? Drop it below.

09/07/2026

The #1 reason busy professionals quit IRONMAN training in month three.

It is not the volume. Month three volume is still manageable.

It is the first bad fortnight. Work gets busy and a kid gets sick. Two long rides get missed in a row and suddenly the plan feels broken. The athlete looks at the gap between where they are and where the plan says they should be and decides they are behind. Then they either try to cram it all back in or quietly stop.

Neither of those is the answer. A missed fortnight in month three costs you almost nothing across a nine-month build. Cramming it back in costs you an injury.

Skip cleanly. Pick the plan back up from where you are, not where you were meant to be. The athletes who finish are not the ones who never missed. They are the ones who kept going after they did.

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