so you wanna tri?

🏊‍♂️ Learning to Swim for Triathlon? Start Here! 🚀

Swimming is often the toughest part of a triathlon for beginners—but don’t worry, we’ve got you covered! In this episode, we dive into:

✅ Should you get a swim coach from the start? 🤔

✅ How to improve if you can’t afford coaching (videos, training groups & more)

✅ Our biggest swimming mistakes & what we wish we did differently

✅ The difference between swimming in a pool vs. a lake, river, or ocean 🌊

✅ The fear of open water swimming 😱

✅ Essential drills, strength work & tips for race-day confidence

🔥 Plus, we answer quick-fire questions and even try to convince YOU to sign up for a race!

🚀 Knokke-Heist 2025 – We’re coming for you! 🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️

In this episode, we break down our race picks for the year—why we chose them, what we’re excited (or nervous) about, and how you can pick the right race for YOU!

🏔️ Hills vs. flat courses – which is best for beginners?

📅 How to plan your training around your race choice

💡 What to look for when picking your first triathlonThinking about signing up but feeling lost?

We covered tons of beginner tips in Season 1, Episode 3.We’re always happy to help, so DM us with your questions or join us live next episode!

Drop your comments, ask away, and let’s get you to the start line! 🎙️🔥

🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️ Why We Tri – Season 2 is here!We’re BACK and doing things differently this season—we’re going LIVE - under a new name, so you wanna tri?🎙️ You heard the whispers in Season 1… now it’s happening. The boys convinced me (and we’ll convince you) to sign up for your first tri! Join us as we guide first-timers on their triathlon journey.In this episode we share our 2025 race plans, discuss what’s coming this season, and explain why we’re bringing the show live to YouTube.💬 We want to hear from YOU! Drop a comment, share your training goals, and tell us if we can convince you to sign up for your first triathlon.📅 What to expect in Season 2:✅ Live training updates✅ Beginner triathlon tips✅ Fun games, challenges & interactive Q&A✅ Guest speakers - think other triathletes, coaches etc.🔥 New LIVE episodes on Youtube every 2 weeks! Hit Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss an episode!

There were highs, there were lows, but they all did it.

Bringing you this last episode from 2 long distance triathletes and an Openlakes finisher.

We reflect back on the race, what they would do the same, what they would different...

And of course, the inevitable question of, what's next?

we were worried about DNF's, but hadn't considered a DNS! In this ep, we talk through how race day was and what exactly went down including bulls (not balls for once) and ding-donging. Were there tears? Were there any poop related incidents?

Did they do it?

We meet with less than one week to go for Ben and Alex taking on Challenge Almere, and just under two weeks until Open Lakes for Papa Woo. How are we feeling? What are our predictions? What's an activation session? Carb loading? Special needs bags on course?

And of course, it wouldn’t be an episode of why we tri without some toilet talk.

Race day(s) are fast approaching. The boys are getting their last big training sessions in now, counting down the days and thinking about what tattoos they are going to get.

We look back at their aims from 6 months ago to see if they've kept their promises to themselves. Has Papa Woo lost the weight he wanted to? Has Ben kept to his plan? And has Alex learnt from his nutrition mistakes? Well, if they haven't, it's too late now.

In this episode we invite Club Woo member James onto the podcast to talk about everything he needs to know before his first ever triathlon coming up soon.

Glasses or contact lenses? How do brick sessions work? Does he need a tri suit? The benefits of a cycling / tri club. Peeing in the wetsuit. And of course - if you shave your legs, how far do you go?

Papa Woo, Alex and Becca catch up after a small summer break (Ben was still off enjoying his holiday). Papa Woo is making good progress on his weight loss and consistency goals before his next race, Alex has been battling a few weeks of sickness but is starting to get back on it, and Becca's birthday 'presents' have changed the course of her training.

We also talk about the Ironman experience, including just how much the merch actually costs. We'll be comparing it to Challenge & Openlakes races in an upcoming episode.

In part 1 we talked about how the race went... in this part, we talk about the lessons we learned - pacing strategy, toilet breaks, fuelling, heart rate, proper swim sighting and more.

Hopefully we'll carry those lessons forward for the big dance!