8 Triathlon Tips From a Successful Beginner Triathlete

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Joanne Courtney is a world champion and Olympian curler who just retired and has decided to become a beginner triathlete. She just completed the sprint distance PTO Canadian Open in a time of 1:14 which is a fantastic performance for someone competing in their first triathlon. Joanne couldn't swim several months ago, didn't own a bike, but ran a few half marathons in her life, now it's time to step up to the half-Ironman triathlon distance.

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0:00.0	What's up Motivators, Taryn here with Joanne Courtney,
0:03.0	a world champion curler Olympian
0:06.0	who just raced her first triathlon yesterday
0:09.0	here at the PTO Canadian Open,
0:12.0	and it being 26 hours since your first race finish.
0:17.0	We are going to have eight tips,
0:19.0	specifically for beginner triathletes from a beginner triathlete who just killed her race yesterday.
0:24.6	We're going to have some training tips and racing tips.
0:27.6	My name is Tereng Gazelle. In my 20s, I was overweight, unfulfilled, and couldn't even run to the end of the blog.
0:33.6	Over the following years, I found endurance sports, lost 65 pounds, won age groups,
0:38.6	race world championships, broke records, and trained and learned from some of the best
0:42.9	athletes and coaches in the world.
0:45.3	You too can use endurance sports to change your life and accomplish your fitness goals.
0:49.9	You just need a system, a system that's meant for us amateurs who want to be our best while feeling our strongest and healthiest.
0:57.6	My company Motive offers that system,
1:00.0	and I want to share some of the tips from it today.
1:03.0	All right, Joanne, first tip is.
1:05.7	Be disciplined with your efforts.
1:07.8	The easy efforts have to be super easy.
1:10.8	It's really boring because those easy
1:12.4	efforts are often really long, but you need to stay disciplined with the zone two stuff.
1:16.9	When I say being disciplined with the efforts, I also mean be disciplined when it's intense.
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