Tim & Rinny's 6 Lessons for a Long-Lasting Triathlon Journey
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Staying in the sport of triathlon takes the right motivation, dedication, and a healthy mind and body. IRONMAN World Champion Mirinda Carfrae and IRONMAN Champion Tim O'Donnell both enjoyed long and rewarding professional triathlon careers and continue to train while coaching Team Salty Bears. So naturally they are perfect to share the six lessons they learned to help have a long-lasting journey in triathlon. Tim and Rinny teach us the importance of always redefining goals and share tips for avoiding burnout. They stress the importance of strength sessions and adjusting your training when needed. Armed with wisdom from Coach Tim and Coach Rinny you will be all set to enjoy this sport for many more years to come!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Triedout podcast. On the show today, we have Iron Man world champion Miranda Carfrey and |
| 0:06.0 | Iron Man champion Tim O'Donnell joining us to share their six tips for longevity in triathlon. |
| 0:12.7 | They both enjoy long professional careers and now coach athletes through Team Salty Bears. |
| 0:17.8 | They are the perfect coaches to teach us about how to enjoy a long, healthy journey |
| 0:22.9 | in triathlon. I'm Andrew the average triathlete, voice to the people and captain of the middle |
| 0:27.4 | of the pack. As always, we'll start off with our warm-up question, settle into our main set |
| 0:31.6 | conversation with Tim and Rennie's tips, and then wind things down by having our coaches answer |
| 0:36.5 | an audience question on the cooldown. |
| 0:39.0 | Lots of good stuff. |
| 0:40.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:43.2 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 0:51.3 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 0:55.9 | Tim and Rennie for our warm up question today, I want to know if you were to register for |
| 1:02.2 | a triathlon relay event and could have any two professional triathletes as your teammates, |
| 1:08.8 | who are you choosing? And they can be currently in the profile, they can be retired, they can be alive or dead, |
| 1:14.3 | anybody in the history of triathlon, who would you want on a relay team with yourself? |
| 1:20.2 | Coach Rennie, what do you think? |
| 1:22.7 | I would pick a couple of old friends, retired triathletes. |
| 1:26.7 | I go for the fun factor. I probably pick two of |
| 1:29.8 | my biggest training partners over the years, Julie Dibbons and Laura Bennett, just because, |
| 1:35.5 | I mean, I think it would be just a lot of fun. If I'm picking myself on that team, we're not going |
| 1:40.6 | to win anything. Would you do the run, Rennie? Would you do the run? |
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