How to complete an IronMan

How to complete an IronMan?

An IronMan is one of the hardest competitions. Be one of them it's really hard. It is necessary to complete a long distance triathlon: 3.8 km swim, 180km bike and 42.2 run in a time less than 15 hours.

I want to give you some advices which you can use it for every triathlon competition:

1. The training has to be progressive. It's not good to train really hard the first week and then get leisured for two months. It's important to know yourself step by step.

2. Never do your best in a train. You need energy for the next day.

3. If some part of your body hurts, stop it. This is the most common problem.

4. Almost never train running and cycling the same day.

5. Swimming fits with all the sports. You can swim and run or swim and cycle. It is really difficult to get injured swimming.

6. Take care with long running distances. Don't do too much. It is an attack against your knees.

7. Take the costume of cycling every weekend is necessary. Always enjoy it, if you don’t, it could be awful.

8. Eat a lot of carbohydrates. It is the best way to recover energy.

9. Going out at nights... Personally I think is good to enjoy some days with the friends. To go out helps to keep going. However, tabacco, lots of alcohol, weed... you are out.

 

With these steps you can achieve every kind of triathlon.

 

 

Salud and miles.