Chances are, if you’re a triathlete, you’ll be racing and/or training somewhere where you’ll need sunscreen, and the SPF number is not all you should be looking at. Race day is not a day to try and get a tan, so find one that works and load it on. Some athletes even carry a small [...]
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As the season starts to wind down, for most, it’s a great time to set some fitness benchmarks. Benchmarks are key to tracking improvement and ensuring that your training is actually doing what it’s supposed to do. They’re also a good way to see how much you slacked off during the winter!! Depending on the [...] In our opinion compression socks can be beneficial for triathletes. They are great for recovery from hard runs, long days at work, or traveling. They can also be used during hard training runs if you don’t mind getting heckled by 99.9% of the population. Wearing them in a race, however, we’re not sold on. [...] So, are you better off getting a triathlon specific frame, or better off attaching clip-on aero bars to your road bike frame? This topic has been grilled to death on the internet but we’re going to talk about it regardless. I did my first two Ironmans on a road bike with aero bars and have [...] We’ve learned this lesson for the second time recently, it’s worth paying attention to and one we won’t forget again. Not all energy gels are created equal. 100 calories of this product, is not the same as 100 calories as that product…at least as far as your body’s ability to absorb and digest those calories [...] If you’re reading this tip – you’re lucky. I would consider it one of the biggest lessons we’ve learned as triathletes. As promised in the last tip about avoiding orthotics, here’s some great ideas to get you going on strengthening your feet. Having strong feet will help eliminate the need to throw corrective support [...] Ironmantriathlontips.com has taken up a new look. Bare with us while we make small changes here and there over the next week, this will hopefully provide a more user friendly experience…and allow the comments to work properly which they rarely did on the past layout. So, we’ll have another tip coming shortly. Hopefully something [...] This one will no doubt be controversial, and we welcome your comments if you find otherwise. However, we’re pretty hard headed on this topic and can pretty much guarantee (no guarantees) there’s a better (and much cheaper) way to solve your run pains than to get yourself some orthotics or supportive insoles. This [...] |
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