Your Questions Answered: Off-Season Motivation, Nutrition Fads, Short Course Racing, Coaching Benefits, and More!
The TriDot Triathlon Podcast
TriDot Triathlon Training
4.9 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
We're back for another episode where our triathlon coaches answer YOUR questions! Coaches Brandy Ramirez, Stephen Horan and Sion McIntosh jump into the hot seat on this round-robin, rapid-fire episode! Learn tips for staying motivated during the winter months, maximizing your TriDot schedule balancing all the disciples (including strength), and how to read your swim workout wile in the pool. Listen in as the coaches teach us about salt intake and endurance nutrition and how to effectively add and train for a swim/run race. They also discuss what to look for in a coach and the benefits of TriDot coaching. This episode has a tip for everyone!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TryDOT Podcast. Today is episode 325 of the show. Every 25 episodes, we dedicate our full time to an episode asking audience questions. I love these episodes. First off, they're way easier for me. You guys write the questions. I just asked them. And secondly, we get to cover a solid variety of topics in a short amount of time with a roundtable of coaches. |
| 0:27.3 | I love this four coach panel we have here today on the screen for our YouTube audience. |
| 0:32.4 | The coaches I have today are coach Brandy Ramirez. |
| 0:35.7 | She's the TriDop Pool School Director. |
| 0:38.6 | I have coach Stephen Horan, the founder and head coach of iron mind endurance uh and coach sean mccintosh |
| 0:43.9 | from precision coaching based in the u k they are revving and rearing and ready to go to answer |
| 0:50.5 | your questions um i don't say this often enough but if you're watching the show and you're enjoying the show, |
| 0:56.1 | please, by all means, leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. |
| 1:01.1 | If you're watching us on YouTube, like and subscribe, all that jazz, all of those actions. |
| 1:05.7 | Just help our show with the algorithms and help us find new listeners. |
| 1:09.5 | Thank you in advance. |
| 1:10.5 | We love you guys. I'm Andrew the Average Trilete, voice of the people, and captain of the middle of the back. As always, we treat the show like a good workout. We'll start with our warm-up question. Settle into our main set conversation. We'll ask our coaches your questions, and then we'll wind things down with a short little cool down. Lots of good stuff. |
| 1:28.2 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:35.4 | This is the Tridot podcast, the triathlon show that brings you world-class coaching with every conversation. |
| 1:37.7 | Let's get started with today's warm-up. |
| 1:41.3 | Okay, for our warm-up question today, I know all of the coaches on this call and all of our |
| 1:46.6 | listeners. We've done a lot of races in our time as triathletes. And what I want to know today, |
| 1:52.3 | across the swim, the bike, and the run individual splits you've gathered across your career. |
| 1:58.5 | What single split are you the most proud of? Coach Stephen, you've done a lot |
| 2:04.1 | of racing. I'll throw this to you first. Yeah, so first off, excited to be here. Hopefully |
| 2:08.7 | everyone's getting ready for the holidays. So it actually took me a little bit to think about |
| 2:13.6 | like my best individual like split. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TriDot Triathlon Training, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of TriDot Triathlon Training and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.