How to Get Started and Progress in Triathlon

Another Mother Runner

Sarah Bowen Shea

Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This is the ideal episode for folks who are curious about trying a triathlon, as well as triathletes looking to move up to a longer distance race. This special episode is hosted by Coaches Liz Waterstraat and Jennifer Harrison, who have each completed 200+ triathlons and coached hundreds of triathletes to success. The coaching duo detail how to get started in the three-discipline sport, then how to move up from sprint to Olympic distance, Oly to 70.3, and finally the big kahuna, Ironman distance. Want more? Join a live triathlon webinar with Coaches Jen and Liz on Wednesday, April 24 at 8 p.m. EDT. Register here. AMR Answers returns in two weeks: To record your question, call 470-BADASS1 (470-223-2771). When you shop our sponsors, you help AMR. We appreciate your—and their—support! Take steps to better running: Use code AMR15 for 15% discount at Currex.com Get 20% off, plus free shipping, on all IQBar products by texting AMR to 64-000 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.8	Get 20% off all I-Q-Bar products, plus get free shipping.
0:31.5	Just text AMR to 64,000. You probably tuned in for AMR answers, but surprise!
0:53.6	Instead, we're serving up a special standalone episode hosted by coaches Liz Waterstrot and
0:58.3	Jennifer Harrison.
0:59.5	The topic?
1:00.4	Triathons and when to step up to certain distances, as in when to consider your first try,
1:05.0	when to move up from a sprint to Olympic distance, when to consider a 70.3 distance,
1:10.0	and if you're ready to take on an Iron Man triathlon.
1:13.1	Both women should be familiar voices to you.
1:15.0	Liz is a frequent co-host of the Another Mother Runner
1:17.5	podcast on Fridays and Jen is a frequent guest on that show.
1:21.4	Both women are well respected, longtime multi-sport coaches in the
1:24.8	Chicago land area. They're also both successful well-honed triathletes each
1:28.8	having competed in more than 200 triathlion, including numerous Iron Man events.
1:34.8	Coaches Liz and Jen also coach all of our heart rate training and
1:39.2	triathlon programs in our train like a mother club.
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