Swim to Bike: Tidy-Up Your Triathlon T1
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Transitions can make or break your race, and Transition 1 is often where valuable seconds slip away. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the ins and outs of T1 with Coaches Jeff Raines and Jenn Reinhart. From sighting the swim exit and navigating the chaos of the transition area, to smart gear staging and finding your bike fast, they 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 swim to bike like a pro.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TryDOT podcast. Today I have Coach Jen Reinhardt, founder and lead coach at Reinhardt Racing, and coach Jeff Reins, biomechanics expert in the lead coach of Team Reins. |
| 0:11.5 | They are joining us to help us tidy up our transitions, specifically talking about the swim to bike transition today, aka T1. 60 minutes on T1. Let's do it. I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice of the people, and captain in the middle of the pack. We treat the show like any good workout. We'll start with a warm-up question. Settle into our mindset conversation and then wind things down by having our coaches answer an audience question on the cool down. |
| 0:38.5 | Lots of good stuff. |
| 0:39.6 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:41.4 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every |
| 0:48.2 | conversation. |
| 0:49.5 | Let's get started with today's warm up. |
| 0:52.9 | All right, Coach Jeff, Coach Jen, every sport has an individual |
| 0:57.3 | or a small team of individuals watching the contest, watching the game, watching the match |
| 1:02.8 | to make sure that all the rules are followed and the competition is fair. Some sports call these |
| 1:08.8 | folks referees, some call them umpires. They can be judges, stewards, |
| 1:12.0 | officials, and so many more names. My warm-up question today, what sport do you think is the |
| 1:18.9 | hardest on the officials? Jeff, what do you think? |
| 1:24.7 | You know, my fantasy football just kicked off last night. And by the way, the TriDOT Fantasy Football League, and we're in year three. |
| 1:36.2 | NFL, gosh, there's so fast-paced, so many moving parts. I don't know how each umpire or referee stays focused on their individual area or the things |
| 1:47.9 | that that they're looking for. It's crazy. I don't know. I'd say basketball is kind of the same. |
| 1:53.7 | Fast-paced rugby. Baseball, gosh, there's so many rules. They're like always stopping to, you know, review the footage and things. NFL is my answer, but anything super fast-paced. |
| 2:08.3 | Yeah, and this question was inspired, literally the week we're recording. In this sporting week, I've watched some U.S. Open tennis. I watched a T-100 |
| 2:17.8 | trathlon event two weekends back. I watched some WMBA basketball earlier in the week, |
| 2:23.8 | and preseason NFL has been going on. And so kind of watching so many different sports |
| 2:29.5 | in the same week, I was kind of like, man, like, it kind of made me think about this question. |
| 2:33.7 | Coach Jen, what does this answer for you? So we're week. I was kind of like, man, like, it kind of made me think about this question. Coach |
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