Bike to Run: Transform Your Triathlon T2
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Transitions can make or break your race, and changing between sports are often where valuable seconds slip away. In this episode, we dig deep into the ins and outs of T2 with Coaches Elizabeth James and Ben Sommerville. From getting your legs ready for a run while wrapping up your ride and finding your transition spot fast to practicing the sequence of changing your gear quickly and what amenities the coaches recommend you use or skip in the transition area, Ben and Elizabeth share practical tips and real-world strategies to streamline your next race. Plus, enjoy some unforgettable stories from their own triathlon journeys. Whether you're a first-timer or a seasoned racer, this episode will help you move from biking to running like a pro.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TryDOT podcast. Today I have professional triathlete and coach Elizabeth James and coach Ben Somerville from Precision Coaching. They are joining us to help us tidy up our transitions. And this week, we're specifically talking about that bike to run transition, aka T2. If you watch last week's show, we talked all about T1. So if you're, |
| 0:22.7 | if you miss that one, go back, listen to that one, then catch this one. It's going to be great. |
| 0:26.9 | 60 minutes on how to nail your T2. I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people, |
| 0:32.4 | and captain of the middle of the pack. We treat the show like any good workout. We'll start |
| 0:36.3 | with our warm-up question, settle into our mindset conversation and then wind things down by having our coaches |
| 0:42.4 | answer an audience question on the cool down. Let's get stuff. Let's get to it. |
| 0:48.1 | This is the TriDOT podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 0:56.2 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 0:59.7 | Okay, Elizabeth Ben, last week having this transition conversation, I asked coach Jen Reinhardt and coach Jeff Reins, |
| 1:08.8 | what sport they think is the most difficult for the referees, the umpires, the people, |
| 1:14.4 | the people monitoring the competition, right? |
| 1:18.0 | And so this week, I'm going to follow that up with a similar one for the two of you. |
| 1:22.6 | I want to know what sport you think looks the most difficult for the players. The athletes actually competing |
| 1:30.7 | in the competition. Lots of potential answers here. Elizabeth, what do you think? I am going to go |
| 1:38.7 | with gymnastics. And I think you through this. Yeah, like, I mean, there's so many different |
| 1:43.8 | events within gymnastics. |
| 1:45.9 | This is terrible. I think they call them events. I honestly don't know. |
| 1:49.5 | I think you're right. I think you're right. |
| 1:52.1 | As soon as that came out, I was like, oh, man, I'm probably even miss speaking about, you know, the sport itself and the different events or whatever they're called. |
| 2:00.0 | But particularly the men's |
| 2:03.7 | still rings and the women's and just i mean the women's wet which one the balance beam yes oh my gosh |
| 2:13.8 | like how in the world i mean one with, like, do you have the strength to just |
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