Triathlon Books

Triathlete Magazine’s Complete Triathlon Book: The Training, Diet, Health, Equipment, and Safety Tips You Need to Do Your Best

In one handy, easily referenced guide, TRIATHLETE MAGAZINE’S COMPLETE TRIATHLON BOOK offers the best advice, stories, and tips from the top coaches and athletes who have contributed to the magazine over the years. Appealing to both novices and the most seasoned athlete, the book strikes a balance between technical depth and beginner-friendliness by getting right down to the guidelines that all triathletes can use. In addition, the book offers advice for the various categories of triathletes: beginners, veterans, short-course specialists, Ironman specialists, and others. Bearing the name of the most popular source for information on the sport, this book is sure to become a classic among triathlon enthusiasts.

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The Triathlete’s Training Bible

The Triathlete’s Training Bible provides triathletes of all abilities with every detail they must consider when planning a season, lining up a week of workouts, or preparing for race day. Using this comprehensive guide, triathletes will develop a personalized, self-coached training plan that will guide them to success in the sport.

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Your First Triathlon

Every year thousands of people decide to take on a sprint triathlon for the first time. Now USA Triathlon and USA Cycling certified coach Joe Friel provides a complete guide to finishing that first triathlon. The same principles and training methodology that the pros and committed triathletes rely on are presented here in language that a beginner can easily understand. Friel maps a course to prepare for a sprint-distance triathlon in 12 weeks, with five hours of training each week, plenty of rest, and the beginnings of a lifestyle marked by a commitment to health and fitness and personal growth. Your First Triathlon provides the training plans, workouts, checklists, and instruction that first-timers need. Joe Friel is known for his thorough approach and with his help, what may have begun as a challenge to complete a sprint triathlon will grow into a love for this demanding yet rewarding sport.

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Going Long: Training for Triathlon’s Ultimate Challenge (Ultrafit Multisport Training Series)

Going Long is the most comprehensive guide to racing long-course triathlons ever written. Combining science with personal experience, Friel and Byrn prepare every triathlete, from the working age-grouper to the podium contender, for success in triathlon’s ultimate endurance event. Sport-specific chapters outline training for each triathlon discipline and describe drills to improve form and efficiency. A newly expanded section on training the mind explores the all-important psychological aspects of racing, including goal-setting and visualisation. A detailed appendix includes key training sessions, workout examples, and strength training progressions. Going Long has long been the best-selling book on the subject of training for the long course. With expanded content and a new, two-colour format, this second edition is once again the premier sourcebook for triathletes who are serious about succeeding in the long-course distance.  

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Triathlete Magazine’s Complete Triathlon Book: The Training, Diet, Health, Equipment, and Safety Tips You Need to Do Your Best

Training, diet, health, equipment, & safety tips – this book has the information needed to participate safely & competitively in triathlete sports.

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Triathlete Magazine’s Complete Triathlon Book: The Training, Diet, Health, Equipment, and Safety Tips You Need to Do Your Best Reviews

Review by Trina P Steljes:

I am a beginner triathlete and I really thought this book covered the basics and then some. I am a marathoner so I didn’t really go over the running section but the bike and swim sections were great for learning basics and getting some drill and cycling advice.
However, the one obvious thing missing in this book for me was training schedules. Not one in the whole book! That is really what I was looking for as a beginner because I didn’t quite know how to structure my workouts on a daily basis. I did find quite a few training schedules on the internet though, and I recently bought a book with training schedules in it, so it wasn’t a big deal. I found this book to be very complete in all other aspects of the triathlon so far.

Review by Paul H.:

I’ve run numerous races (including marathons) but I was new to the world of cycling and swimming. This book had just what I needed to get started and get going. I found the swim section especially useful and learned a great deal about what my stroke should look and feel like. The simple leasons took 3 minutes off my 750m pace (in the pool).

Some of the off beat advice (matching clothes) for example seemed a bit silly and directed to those jonesing. But in the end, this was a very useful book and got me through the Chicago Triathlon with out too much difficulty. Some of the lessons just have to be applied to be realized however (read here: Open water swimming!).

If this book would have had some serious training schedules in it, I would have given it 5 stars. It does contain a weak training bit right in the middle of the text, but it isn’t all that helpful or informative.

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Triathlon – Swim Bike Run Decal Sticker – Size:2.0 x 7.0 inches – Color:White

Our high quality vinyl decals are a great way to accent your car, truck, motorcycle, Thule box, Yakima box, camper/RV, snowboard, kayak or almost any other smooth surface that you would like to personalize. Most decals are available in a number of diff

• High quality vinyl designed to last many years outdoors without fading
• Can be applied to almost any smooth surface
• Includes detailed application instructions
• These are quality cut decals. Image background color (typically white, gray or black) in images is negative space, ie the color of the surface the decals are applied to.

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Park Tool BBB-2 The Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair – 2nd Edition

A visit to your local mechanic costs you time and money, especially when you could learn to pull that bottom bracket yourself. But even the most seasoned home mechanic will find the Park Tool book useful when there’s a k jewel dangling from the stand. Compiled and updated yearly by the number-one bike-tool company in the world, the Big Blue Book contains step-by-step instructions for repairing everything from road to bmx bikes, whether you’re doing simple maintenance or a complete overhaul. Lots of photos allow your 6-year-old daughter to walk you through the most complicated of repairs, and as a result you’ll spend less money on six-packs for your local mechanic.

• Park BBB-2 Big Blue Book of Bike Repair- 2nd Edition-2008
• New 2nd edition 2008 – Updated to include new topics, techniques and equipment.
• BBB-2 provides both the novice and veteran mechanic the information to perform nearly any repair !
• Perfect reference guide and step-by-step repair manual for nearly any bik/Road, MTB, BMX.
• A Do-it-yourself Bicycle Repair Guide from Park Tool w/easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions.

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Iron Ambition: My Journey from Seat 2A to Ironman

UPDATED: Iron Ambition chronicles a CEO’s mid-life odyssey from corporate excess and sloth, to completing the Ironman Triathlon. This is NOT a book for those looking for training advice. It is the story of all the mistakes made trying to do too much, too soon, and wasting thousands of dollars on unnecessary equipment that made little difference in the end. This book is really targeted toward mid-career, 6-figure executives who struggle with the daily battle of balancing work and family while harboring the guilt of broken promises and delayed dreams. The wildly-mixed reviews reflect the disappointment of athletes who were seeking training advice or who misinterpreted the author’s intention of helping others avoid his costly mistakes by candidly acknowledging his near-obsession with Ironman and how this costly pursuit took over much of his life. Since completing the Ironman, the author has also completed the ULTRAMAN, a 3-day stage race format triathlon consisting of a 6.2 mile swim, 260 miles of cycling and a 52-mile double marathon run on the final day.

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Iron Ambition: My Journey from Seat 2A to Ironman Reviews

Review by WonderWmn:

The first tip-off that you should avoid this unedited mess of a book: it’s a vanity publication. Despite his repeated claims of his enormous financial worth, the author apparently did not spend any money on a professional editor to whip this book into shape and it shows. (For example, an editor would have likely caught and prevented the same passage concerning Botox and wet needling from appearing in two parts of the books.)

The lack of editing can be confirmed simply by looking at the table of contents. The author spends 75% of the book in a meandering account of his injuries and the very expensive (and often unnecessary) equipment that he uses in order to finish in the middle of the pack and then he gives a cursory overview of different events he entered, leading up to his ultimate goal of the Tempe Ironman in November 2008 (Chapters 10 and 11 out of 14). So little attention is paid to this race that it was ultimately anti-climactic.

I agree with the reviewer who advises that one cannot use this book as a primer for triathlon training — mostly because it is impossible to do so. The author does not give a chronological account of how he developed his training in running, cycling or swimming. For example, he suddenly goes on 100+ mile rides without any mention of a gradual increase in mileage. On one page, he mentions he is sidelined by injury for more than a week and a few pages later, he is crowing about how he completed an event — which is completely disorienting unless you flip to the end of the book to read his brief overview of the event. There is no continuity or development that would give the reader any sense of the author’s increasing physical abilities. This book is of limited value to triathlon newbies – even a newbie knows better than to go running for long miles in new shoes, yet this author does it repeatedly with predictable results. Also, although the author mentions that he has lost a great deal of weight, he does not give any indication of how he accomplished this or managed to keep the weight off. It’s a complete mystery.

I completely disagree with the reviewer who states that the author does not endorse products. This book was one long fawning ode to the Endless Pool. (My Kindle finds 39 references to the Endless Pool.) It’s ironic because the author was indicating how well prepared he was for the swimming portion of the Ironman Triathlon because of his use of the Endless Pool but he developed a debilitating cramp that nearly caused him to drown. The author’s repeated efforts to search out “the best” (read: most expensive) products and coaches is tiresome and leads one to dismiss his judgment.

I seriously question anyone who finds inspiration in this author’s account. He sacrifices his family and business in the pursuit of becoming an Ironman. This is not something he does for his own satisfaction, he simply wants the satisfaction of bragging to others that he is an Ironman. Similarly offputting is his goal of beating a certain percentage of participants (“I wanted to beat 200-300 participants so that I actually was faster than a bunch of participants; that would be really great.” Even though he finishes in the bottom 25% overall in the Ironman, he still takes pains to mention that he “crossed the line in front of 600 other entrants…”). Rather than focusing on beating his own personal bests, he derives satisfaction only from comparing himself to others.

Finally, I wonder how anyone can find inspiration in the author’s macho and unsportsmanlike conduct. For example, the author gives this account of his response to a cyclist who was drafting behind him on a windy day: “[T]his joker on the riverbed trail had no problem drafting behind me and he wouldn’t get around me. Finally I just pulled over and stopped… until he finally ventured out into the wind on his own. With that, I jumped on his tail and drafted right behind him yelling at the top of my lungs for him to be a man, take his pull and show me what he had. I taunted him mercilessly by yelling, ‘Is that all you’ve got?!’ I got him so worked up (or scared) that he went out really fast, totally burned out and then as he pulled over gasping, I took the opportunity to blast by him so quickly that he had no chance to bridge the gap and I dropped him.” Really nice behavior, is that what was inspirational to the other reviewers? Perhaps the others found it inspirational that the author has to be told that when he is engaging in poor sportmanship? (“I also learned that it was sort of poor form for an age-grouper like me to sprint the last bit of the race trying to pass everyone. Apparently, that rookie move was sort of poor sportsmanship, but I really didn’t know any better.”)

I typically only write reviews when I find that the existing reviews are misleading and have lured me into purchasing something I would not otherwise purchase. This is one of those instances. I found the author’s tone to be so arrogant, egotistical and self-congratulatory that it was difficult to finish this book.

This is not to take away from the author’s admirable dedication to mastering the triathlon – it takes extreme dedication to get up at 4:30 a.m. (or even 2:30 a.m.) to fit in a workout and to train so hard. However, I take issue with the organization and overall tone of the book.

Review by Joshua J. Steimle:

Cons: If you want the super-negative review, go read the 1-star review. It’s harsh, but a lot of it is accurate. The editing of the book was not done very well. I was surprised to find out it was edited at all, since I noticed at least 50 errors while reading it, and like the negative reviewer I found much lacking in the general form of the book. I think if the author were to re-read the book now, after having let it site for awhile, he would find numerous areas to improve.

Pros: But so what? Even though I’m a bit of a critic when it comes to books, I still enjoyed reading the book. Just because it’s not the highest quality writing it didn’t turn me off. The book is not intended to teach you everything you need to know about doing an Ironman, but it is helpful in communicating a sense of the sacrifices that may be necessary in order to pull it off. But like any other biographical book, it’s one man’s experience and may or may not relate to the experience of anyone else. In my case I found it highly relevant because I’m from SoCal, I’ve swam at the Boy Scout camp at Cherry Valley on Catalina Island, I’m also a business owner, I’ve experienced the same sense of shame at my fatness, and I’m walking the same path towards an Ironman. I think if you’re a beginning triathlete interested in doing an Ironman then you’ll find the book interesting and helpful. I came away from the book feeling a sense of hope, the feeling that “Man, if this guy could make it with all his injuries and setbacks, this certainly isn’t impossible for me.” To me, that’s the primary theme of the book.

Could the book be better from a technical perspective? Sure, there’s no doubt about that, but the technical issues don’t ruin the content.

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Triathlon: Through the Eyes of the Elite

In 1974, two members of the San Diego Track Club conceived of an idea meant to be little more than a fun, yet challenging break from the tedium of traditional training. They called it a Triathlon. Today, Triathlon has evolved from its rudimentary beginnings in Mission Bay into an endurance event of immense international appeal. Deeply embedded in the public consciousness, Triathlon is now poised to debut as the inaugural event of the 2000 Summer Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. What is it about the sport and its competitors that intrigue so many people worldwide? Triathlon: Through the Eyes of the Elite tells the dramatic and compelling stories that revolve around the young sport of Triathlon. From an in-depth and truly unique perspective, we share both the historical documentation and evolution of the sport as well as the lifestyle, perseverance and passion of the professional triathlete. Our film is essentially a “behind the scenes” look at the sport of Triathlon with the Olympics serving as the dramatic backdrop.

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Trizophrenia: Inside the Minds of a Triathlete

Life is better when you’re a triathlete. That is what author and illustrator Jef Mallett believes. This light-hearted declaration of love for triathlon is colored with humor, personal experience, and felicitous connections to literature, history, and music. Beginning with the alluring excitement (and terror) of the new triathlete, Mallett delves into the intoxicating subculture of the sport that is three sports. Sweeping text and amusing illustrations bring to life the countless conundrums a triathlete embraces?from the glory of training to the lasting rewards of racing. Triathletes and those who love them will find this book a fun and worthy indulgence.

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Trizophrenia: Inside the Minds of a Triathlete Reviews

Review by Caroline G. Hemenway:

Quick review ’cause I gotta get out and do a brick. Jef Mallett nails this! He truly captures the angst, joy, satisfaction, stomach churns, and inexplicability that tangles its way through triathletes. By doing so, he gives us the gift of great peace in knowing We Are Not Alone. He makes you laugh a lot (good cross training, btw). Woven in here are myriad tips for being ok with wherever you are in this great sport, however old you are (I’m an “older” convert), and for how to improve if you want to. A big plus: You’ll find yourself reading pieces of this to your baffled partner and cheerleaders and skeptics and see the light come on in their heads. They won’t be any less baffled, but they will be more understanding!

Review by AuntieM:

This was a Christmas gift for my sister-in-law. It was a well received gift but for an experienced triathlete; it is funny more than informational.

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