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Triathlon works best, long-term, as a lifestyle. Easier said than done?TRANSCRIPTThe Lonely Triathlete — Triathlon as a LifestyleI've been thinking a lot this week about the idea of triathlon as a lifestyle.And specifically, I'm thinking about the training side of triathlon.Because when somebody is new to the sport, I think one of the things that can be really interesting—and really beneficial—is that, over time, triathlon can become more than just something you do.It can actually become part of your lifestyle.And I started thinking about what that really means.Because we use the word "lifestyle" all the time, but what actually makes something a lifestyle?Well, I think one of the big things is that it's habitual.It's something you do repeatedly. It's something that eventually becomes almost automatic.I mean, think about eating breakfast. Or eating lunch. You don't wake up every morning and have a big internal debate about whether you're going to eat today.It's just part of your life.And I think there's something really interesting about what happens when training starts to move in that direction.When you're new to triathlon, you probably have to think about everything.When am I going to swim?When am I going to ride?When am I going to run?What workout am I going to do?What do I need to eat?What do I need to bring?Do I have clean cycling clothes?Is my bike ready?There's all this friction around the activity.But if you stick with it long enough, some of that starts to disappear.You know what Tuesday is.You know that Thursday is a run day.You know that Sunday morning is probably going to involve a bike.You start preparing your gear without really thinking about it.You start arranging your life around the things that are important to you.And eventually, you're not really asking yourself, "Am I going to train today?"You're asking yourself, "How am I going to make today's training work?"And I think that's a pretty significant shift.So what creates that shift?I think the first thing is consistency.And I don't mean perfection.That's an important distinction.Consistency doesn't mean you never miss a workout.It doesn't mean you execute every training week exactly as prescribed.It doesn't mean you never get sick, or injured, or have a busy week at work, or have something happen in your family.Consistency means that you keep coming back.You train.You miss a workout.You get back to training.You have a great week.You have a terrible week.You keep going.And eventually, those repeated actions start to become a pattern.And that pattern starts to become a habit.And the habit starts to become part of your life.I think patience is another big piece of this.Because triathlon is really good at teaching you that you don't get everything you want immediately.You can have a great training week and not see any improvement.You can work really hard for three months and discover that your FTP went up by 10 watts.And you might think, "That's it?"But then you look back two years later and realize that those 10-watt improvements, those little improvements in your running, those little improvements in your swimming, all accumulated into something pretty significant.That's the nature of endurance sport.You're accumulating.And I think that's one of the beautiful things about it.There's also resilience.Because if you're going to make triathlon part of your life, you're going to have setbacks.You are going to miss workouts.You're going to have bad races.You're going to get sick.You're probably going to get injured at some point.You're going to have periods where life gets in the way.And one of the skills you develop is simply learning how to pick yourself up and start again.And that's a pretty useful skill outside of triathlon, too.Because life doesn't really care what your training plan says.Sometimes life happens.And the question becomes, "Okay. What do I do now?"Not, "How do I make up every workout I missed?"Not, "How do I punish myself for falling behind?"Just, "Okay. What's the next thing I can reasonably do?"And I think that's another characteristic of something that's sustainable.It's flexible.It can bend without breaking.And that brings me to one of the dangers for somebody who's new to the sport.Because I think it's very easy to confuse enthusiasm with sustainability.You discover triathlon and you think, "This is amazing."And suddenly you're looking at training plans and YouTube videos and gear and nutrition and power meters and heart-rate zones and all of these things.And before you know it, you're trying to do everything.And you're training five or six days a week.And you've bought a bunch of equipment.And you're trying to optimize every workout.And you're exhausted.And you've been doing it for six weeks.And then you wonder why you can't maintain it.So I think one of the most important questions for a new triathlete isn't:"How much can I do?"It's:"What can I do consistently?"And maybe even more importantly:"What can I ...
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