What's up Trainiacs? This is Triathlon Taryn. This is no triathlon Kim, also known as NTK.

In my 20s, I was 215 pounds and I was unhappy working the desk job I was at. Now I'm a 941 Ironman athlete who, with your much appreciated attention, gets to make a living in the sport that I love.

Through this podcast and our ever popular YouTube channel, we bring you triathlon stories, science,

and training from amazing people around the world to help you get to your start lines confident

and your finish lines strong.

And as the resident non-triathlete, I try to keep this show fun and accessible for everybody.

Let's do it.

Today's podcast is brought to you by the free virtual camp that we are putting on.

Given what's going on all around the world, a lot of athletes are stuck inside.

A lot of athletes are not really focused on racing right now

because who knows when we'll be racing. So what we've done is we've put together a virtual

triathlon training camp. Now what this is is about two years ago, we held a virtual triathlon

camp that we held in person over Zoom and Skype

meetings, and we walked people through several workouts, but more than anything, what I wanted to do

is make sure that athletes who attended this camp walked away from that session and all of that

information, a better triathlet regardless of whether they worked

with us on Team Trainiac, whether they worked on their own, whether they hired a coach.

The whole idea is that I can go and make you suffer for four days in a row, but that really

isn't going to make you a much better triathlete.

What's going to make you a better triathlet is understanding what your race nutrition should be,

what your zones should be, what type of strength training should you be doing, how to figure

out your race pace, all of these things that you can take from a camp and translate into the

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