
If you’ve been following along with our Triathlete Challenge: At Home this month, then you know we’ve been building to a virtual “triathlon” event the last weekend of May.
If you’ve done all the workouts over the four weeks—which you can find a full list of here—and followed the recovery schedule, then you’ll be ready for the big day. And if you haven’t, that’s OK too. You can still do the virtual “triathlon” event even if you haven’t done all the Challenge workouts. Just like you can show up to a regular race—except this one’s against yourself and you need to be safe and follow the rules of the road.
Now to get ready for the big weekend, we wanted to lay out all the details. That way you’re prepped for (sorta) race day.
The virtual Olympic-distance “triathlon” will consist of three parts: strength, bike, run. The bike and run will be Olympic distances: 40K and 10K, respectively. The strength portion is a timed 15-minute round, developed by our strength coach Kate Ligler—videos of each of the exercises are in the links below. Your “triathlon” then will look like this:
You can do them all in a row or you can space them out, that’s up to you. You’ll have three days over the weekend to log all three workouts: from 12:01 a.m. MT on Friday to 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday.
Now for the important part and the reason we all do triathlon: the swag.
There will be two prize packages awarded to participants in the Challenge event. Each prize package will consist of a Strava premium membership, a Giro Vanquish MIPS helmet, and a Roll Recovery R3 foot roller. One prize package will be awarded to someone participating via the Triathlete Challenge Facebook Group and one to someone participating via the Triathlete Magazine Strava Club. A winner will be selected from each platform at random — no, going faster will not make your odds of winning greater.
To be eligible to win:
Good luck!