Hey everyone, welcome to the TryDOTP podcast. Today we are walking through our eight tips for racing your very first 70.3.

It's quite a distance. It's quite a distance. I was extremely nervous and anxious the first time I took on the half Iron Man distance.

And so today we have a coach with us who is going to give us eight huge tips for having a great day out the first time you take on the half Iron Man distance.

Our coach today is coach Ryan Tibble.

He is the founder and lead coach of a sin to multi-sport.

He has 12 70.3 finishes on his personal racing resume. He's gone

longer than that, plenty of times. He's gone shorter than that plenty of times. But importantly,

for today's conversation, he is coached hundreds of athletes to their own middle distance

finish lines and has learned plenty that he can offer us today. Coach Ryan, welcome back to the show.

Hey, thank you. I'm very excited about this. Fresh off of 70.3. It's just, it's such a fun distance.

I can't say more so much more about it, but I will. That's coming. Your most recent 70.3 was the inaugural Little Elm, just outside of Dallas, Texas. I was there. I cheered you on. I said, go Ryan, I think twice when you went by on the run course.

You did. How was your day out there? It was, you know, what, everybody's going to talk about. Everybody has talked about it. It was windy, really, really windy, to say the least.

You really felt like you were in an air tunnel that was throwing out, you know, about, you know, 25, 30 mile per hour winds and 45, 50 mile per hour wind gusts.

And so it definitely lent to a very challenging day on the bike in

particular. But yet it was, that was mitigated by all seeing all my friends. It felt like a

a North Texas championship race just because it brought out everyone from Texas there.

Yeah, I sure did. And I enjoyed all the Troutoutes, I got to see.

But anyway, I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice to the people and captain of the middle of the pack.

Today on the show, like always, we'll start off with our warm-up question.

Settle into our main set where Coach Ryan will give us his eight big tips for conquering this distance for the first time.

And then we'll shut things down with our cool down.

Well, I will ask Coach Ryan a question from our audience.

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