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 episode is beginner tip number eight, where I'll talk about

training for an Olympic distance race.

So this follows nicely along from last week's episode, episode beginner tip number seven,

on training for a sprint distance race.

If you haven't listened to that yet, you should definitely do it.

I will kind of assume that you have done it already in this episode and leave some of the

things that apply to both training for whatever race really

if you're a beginner.

I will leave a bit of those things that I already said out to not make a complete repetition

of last week's episode.

But there will be some specific stuff and some of the most important things I will repeat

here just to make sure that you remember it because repetition is never wrong. there will be some specific stuff and some of the most important things I will repeat here

just to make sure that you remember it because repetition is never wrong after all.

So one assumption that I'll make here when training for an Olympic distance race is that

you have already completed at least one sprint distance race.

So you're not completely new to triathlon, although I know there are people that sign up for

their first race and it's an Olympic right away.

But this means that we don't need to talk about some of the things that we did last time

like first needing to get comfortable in the water, especially in the open water, learning how to

handle your bike, those sorts of things. But just be aware that if you are not comfortable,

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