Keeping your technique strong when you're tired and after the bike
Any triathlete can perform well when they're fresh. But the real test comes later: when your arms feel heavy, your legs are like lead coming off the bike, and the race is long, and your body just wants to give up everything you've built. This module teaches you to maintain good technique when you're tired. It's the most effective lever for a triathlete aiming for a personal best: for the same effort, economical technique helps you go faster and costs you less. We're talking about technique under pressure here. Your pace plan and effort management fall under the Race Strategy family, and organizing your bike-to-run transition (T2) belongs to the Transitions, Equipment, and Rules family.
What you'll learn
- •You understand the effect of heavy legs after the bike and adapt your stride to get going again quickly.
- •You maintain your economical technique when the effort lasts: posture, cadence, and foot plant held despite fatigue.
- •You adjust your bike and open water technique according to the terrain: turns, climbs, descents, accelerations, wind.
- •You connect good technique to your energy expenditure: an economical movement consumes less oxygen and fuel.
- •You make core stability the guarantor of your posture when fatigue sets in, across all three disciplines.
The lessons
You can read the lessons before or after the quiz, at your own pace.