s3/e29 Intro to Triathlon As a Runner with Coach Danielle Hirt (@runwithcoachd)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Are you interested in delving into the world of triathlon as a runner? What do you need to know? Coach Danielle Hirt (@runwithcoachd) is here to talk about all the things you need to know to get started in triathlon as a runner!
-Overview of triathlon as a sport
-Different triathlon distances
-Where should a runner start when they want to make the transition into tri?
-Biggest differences between training for a marathon/half standalone vs in a triathlon
-Training intensity distribution in triathlon training
-Brick workouts
-Racing & transitions
-Can triathlon make you a better runner?
-and more!
🕶️🦩This episode is sponsored by GOODR SUNGLASSES! Every pair comes with a 1-Year Warranty and 30-day FREE returns. 100% satisfaction guaranteed (plus Goodr is 100% Carbon Neutral company + 1% for the planet 🌎) Get FREE SHIPPING on your next order of sunglasses & support the show using code RUNEXP at www.goodr.com! 🕶️ Coach D - endurance coach and personal trainer. Danielle has over a decade of distance running and recently turned to triathlons. She's completed two half Ironman distance triathlons and at the time of this recording is one week away from her third. Running will always be her first love but swimming and biking are a fun cross-training compliment! Danielle loves to introduce athletes to the sport of triathlon and help them unlock their athletic potential. www.runwithcoachD.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explain podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner, or you've been doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is |
| 0:26.3 | endurance coach and personal trainer, Coach Danielle Hurt. She is a multi-time marathoner and now |
| 0:31.8 | recently a multi-time half-iron man finisher. And she is here today to talk to us about triathlon |
| 0:36.7 | as a runner, because I assume |
| 0:39.5 | rightly or wrongly that if you're listening to this podcast, that your primary sport is running, |
| 0:43.7 | but maybe you are curious about triathlon. And how would you entree into the sport of triathlon as a runner? |
| 0:50.4 | What does it take? What are the different distances? How is it different? How is it the same? |
| 0:55.7 | And Danielle is here to answer all those questions for us. Now, you may remember her as a guest back |
| 0:59.7 | from season one talking about three hour half marathon and six hour marathon training schedules, |
| 1:04.2 | but this conversation is a heck of a lot of fun, and I hope you learn something new. |
| 1:09.0 | Now, before we get started, don't forget that fall races are coming |
| 1:11.8 | up feels like super fast. And if you want to bounce your questions, ideas, concerns, many freakouts |
| 1:18.4 | off a coach. I am here. And I offer coaching consults in the 30 and 60 minute increment for anything |
| 1:24.5 | that you might want to talk about as it relates to running, racing, even if you're |
| 1:28.4 | not racing, we talk about running and questions that you have to help you feel like you're on |
| 1:32.8 | the right track and to maybe correct some things that aren't going the way that they should be. |
| 1:37.0 | So you can book those on my website, runningexplain.com slash coaching consult, or you can also |
| 1:41.6 | follow the link in the Instagram bio at Running Explained. Hope to see some of you soon. Danielle, welcome back to the show. I'm so excited to have you here. Yes, Elizabeth. I'm excited to be back. It's been a while. It has. It has. Over a year, you were a guest back on season one. We talked about training for a six plus hour marathon or a three plus hour half marathon. I know that episode was |
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