8 Race-Day Breakfast Ideas From Triathlon Coaches
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and on race day it's absolutely crucial. In this episode, we hear from 8 different triathlon coaches to see exactly what they eat before toeing the start line. From short course sprints to long course endurance events, we dive into how fueling strategies change and why topping off glycogen stores can make or break your performance. Whether it's oatmeal, bagels, fruit, or electrolytes, you'll get practical tips and fresh ideas to dial in your own race-morning nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | What fuels triathlon coaches on race morning? Well, we asked seven coaches and one food kept coming up |
| 0:10.7 | again and again. Welcome to the TryDot podcast, everybody. I'm Vanessa, your average |
| 0:15.9 | traffley with elite level enthusiasm. Today we're going to dive into a fun and practical question. What do |
| 0:24.7 | trathlon coaches actually eat for breakfast on race day? I think this is something that we all want to |
| 0:30.6 | know what everyone else is doing. And so here we're going to just give you all the answers from |
| 0:35.5 | eight of our famous, fabulous coaches. |
| 0:39.0 | And to join me here, to help to answer this question, is coach Jasmine Mosez. |
| 0:44.9 | Jasmine is founder, president, and head coach of the South Bay Squad. |
| 0:50.6 | Now, not only is Jasmine an amazing and fun person to talk to, but she's also a certified |
| 0:56.4 | integrative nutritionist and health coach, which makes her the perfect guest for this conversation. |
| 1:03.6 | So we asked TriDoc coaches to submit videos about their real race morning meals, and Jasmine |
| 1:09.6 | and I are going to break them down together, |
| 1:11.9 | what works, what might not, and how you can use these ideas to fuel your best performance. |
| 1:18.6 | So we're going to start things off as usual with the warm-up question. |
| 1:22.2 | We're going to settle into the main set conversation and then wind things down by having |
| 1:26.3 | Jasmine answer an audience question on the |
| 1:28.8 | cool down. |
| 1:29.7 | Lots of get stuff. |
| 1:30.8 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:33.3 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with |
| 1:39.7 | every conversation. |
| 1:41.5 | Let's get started with today's warm up. |
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