We saw briefly in a previous chapter that to become stronger, you need to adapt your diet. And if you’re even slightly interested in triathlon, you must have come across lengthy articles about how to fuel before, during, after, and between races. Then you realise that you can’t escape being in one of the four situations above. That’s it, triathlon has taken over your life! From close and distant fellow triathletes I’ve met over the years, I’ve seen the full scale and conseque

Along with training, an important part of triathlon is nutrition. I enjoyed different types of cuisine in all their splendour and richness. Training and racing provided a great excuse to enjoy them even more, given that I would burn all those fats and calories on the bike, in the pool, or during a run. Unfortunately, it’s not that straightforward. If you want to perform better, you usually have to reduce the level of fat in your body, and to achieve this you not only need to

Once this is done and dusted, your life changes completely. Training becomes a habit—you start studying training plans, nutrition, bike accessories, new concepts for running shoes, and everything that takes place between lengthy sessions in the pool, where you constantly try to improve your stroke. The more you think about it, the more you want to do it again. So you start looking around for more races and, if you’re like me and enjoy traveling, you immediately see the benefi

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