Hey, what's up everybody and welcome back to That Triathlon Show, the podcast presented by Scientific Traathlon.com.

I'm your host, Michael Erickson, and this is episode one of a new beginner tip series.

So it's beginner tip one.

And this episode will be an introduction to this new series of episodes that is meant for beginner triathletes.

On this episode, I'll quickly describe what this series is about and what you can expect from it,

but I'll also give you a specific quick tip for this first one, and this will be around how you should structure your training if you're starting

training now in the winter in January and you have a race in your summer what training phases

should you go through all right so first the background of these beginner tip episodes is that

in the autumn of 2017 i made a call to action on this podcast that if you're

a beginner and you want more beginner episodes, then send me an email, tweet me or shout at me that

you want that. And if I would get more than 10 responses, I would start creating a weekly

5 to 15 minute episode with one simple tip for beginner triathletes.

Well, I did get more, quite a few more than 10 responses.

I have a few other names here actually and I want to give you guys some shoutouts for taking action and emailing, tweeting, etc.

So big thanks to Imtias, Marina, Jean, Stephen, Carl, Neil, Lyndon,

Carly, Dean, Andy, Robert, Crystal and Marcus, and everybody else that contacted me that I've

missed from this list. Anyway, the reason that I did not pull the trigger earlier on starting

creating these episodes is that I was just simply very, very pressed for time and I couldn't commit to it back in autumn.

But now I think I can take the leap and commit to it.

So, the idea is that once per week, on Fridays, I'll release an episode called beginner tip something.

So for example, this episode is called beginner tip one introduction.

So it will be short and sweet five to maybe 15 minutes at most, very actionable and practical,

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