GUIDES.
These guides are here to educate and support you on your triathlon journey — training, racing, and season planning:
Follow the WattX path.
More on your triathlon journey
Distance, your first race, open water, bricks, race week, nutrition, and more — nine guides in a sensible read order after the path above.
Triathlon Distance Explained
How to choose a triathlon distance — compare sprint, Olympic, 70.3, and Ironman by training demand, recovery cost, and race-day requirements.
Your First Triathlon Explained
First triathlon guide for race week and race day — registration, transitions, kit, pacing, and what your first result actually tells you.
Open Water Swimming Explained
Open water triathlon swim guide — why pool CSS and race pace differ, with practical sighting, pacing, and start-execution fixes for race day.
Brick Session Explained
Brick workout guide for triathlon — train the bike-to-run transition with classic, race-pace, multi-repeat, and long bricks placed by phase.
Olympic Race Explained
Olympic triathlon pacing guide — 1500 m swim, 40 km bike, and 10 km run targets from CSS, FTP, and FT, with execution tips for age-group racing.
Race Week Explained
Race week triathlon checklist and strategy for the final seven days — taper correctly, confirm nutrition, sleep, packing, and bike setup before race morning.
Race Analysis Explained
How to analyze a triathlon race: interpret splits, run fade, and pacing execution against CSS, FTP, and FT, then decide if threshold syncs are justified.
Long-Course Nutrition Explained
Long-course triathlon nutrition guide for 70.3 and Ironman — carb targets, hydration, sodium, and gut training to support pacing and run performance.
Returning From Injury
Returning from triathlon injury guide — keep training where possible, redistribute load safely, and follow a structured ease-back to full training.
Tyre Pressure Explained
Triathlon tyre pressure guide — set PSI from system weight, tyre width, and surface to balance rolling resistance, comfort, and puncture risk.
How to Test Your Thresholds
What swim, bike, and run thresholds mean in triathlon — baselines from field tests or race analysis — protocols for CSS, FTP, and FT on WattX benchmark testing and the race vault.