Battling Burnout: 7 Ways to Reignite Your Triathlon Passion
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The ebbs and flows of triathlon motivation are real, and many athletes can face burnout at some point in their sporting journey. It’s a normal part of the athlete journey, but it doesn’t have to derail your love for the sport. This week, Coaches Stephen Horan and Matt Davies join Andrew to share seven practical tips for preventing and overcoming burnout. From taking intentional breaks in structured training, to actually racing more (yes, really!), they dive into how variety, community, and even a bit of retail therapy can keep your motivation alive. Whether you’re feeling drained or just want to stay ahead of burnout, this episode will help you reconnect with your “why” and get excited to jump back in when you’re ready.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TriDOTP podcast. Today we are talking through the seven ways a triathlete can prevent |
| 0:08.9 | burnout. I've got two excellent coaches for this conversation, Stephen Horan, head coach of Iron |
| 0:15.0 | Iron Mind Endurance and Matt Davies from Precision Coaching, both join the show to help us enjoy |
| 0:20.2 | the triathlon lifestyle season after season after season |
| 0:24.1 | without getting burnt out and dropping off and going to a different hobby. |
| 0:28.9 | I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people and captain of the middle of the pack. |
| 0:33.2 | We treat the show like any good workout. |
| 0:34.9 | We'll start with a warm-up question, settle into our main set conversation, and then wind things down by having our coaches answer an audience |
| 0:41.6 | question on the cool down. Lots of good stuff. Let's get to it. |
| 0:46.3 | This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with |
| 0:52.6 | every conversation. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 1:02.5 | All right, Coach Matt, Coach Stephen, when an athlete joins TriDut, as they onboard, |
| 1:06.8 | there's a couple really fun questions they're prompted to answer, and some of those questions is how long? |
| 1:08.1 | Have you been a runner, a swimmer, a cyclist, and a triathlete, and that kind of |
| 1:12.3 | identifies in the system what we call an athlete's sport age, and it's just one of the many |
| 1:18.0 | factors that goes into building an athlete's training. |
| 1:21.5 | And so I'm just kind of curious to hear from you guys and to hear from our audience as well, |
| 1:26.5 | how long have you been a swimmer, a cyclist, |
| 1:29.0 | a runner, and a triathlete. Coach Matt, kicking us over to you first. |
| 1:35.1 | Cheers, Andrew. So yeah, first up, I was a swimmer as a kid. I was fairly decent back at sort of |
| 1:42.5 | school age. But at 5' nine on a good day, I realized |
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