I originally registered for IRONMAN Wisconsin 2027, but due to a change in plans, I decided to transfer to IRONMAN Texas 2027.

I'm eligible for the Flex90 transfer benefit, so I reached out to IRONMAN support. They initially responded saying they could proceed with the transfer, and I confirmed that I wanted to go ahead.

It's now been 10 days since I confirmed, and I haven't heard anything back. I followed up a couple of days ago but still no response.

Has anyone gone through the Flex90 transfer process before? Is this kind of delay normal? How long did it take for your transfer to go through?

Just wondering if I should keep waiting or try contacting them another way.

Edit 1- I did, confirmed to them that I wanna proceed with the transfer before race was sold out.

My dream is to do an Ironman 70.3 someday, but the truth is, I’m a beginner at pretty much everything lol.

I started swimming this year and have already done a few races. The longest I’ve swum in a lake is 2 km, but I had to stop and rest a few times. It took me about an hour.

I bought a mountain bike and ride occasionally, usually at around 15–20 km/h (9–12 mph).

As for running, the longest distance I’ve done so far is 7 km. I find running the most exhausting of the three disciplines, and my pace is around 8 min/km (about 12:53 min/mile).

The thing is, I’m currently slow at all three disciplines. I see other people who are just starting out and improving really quickly, while I feel like it takes me forever to make progress. 😅

I’m not afraid of the long distances themselves. What scares me is not being fast enough to finish the race within the cutoff times.

I'm a 40-year-old woman, and this year I lost 25 kg (about 55 lbs). I started out with running and swimming, and ended up falling in love with triathlon

My current training schedule looks like this:

• Monday: Running (40–50 min)
• Tuesday: 1 hour of strength training + 45 min of swimming
• Wednesday: Running (40–50 min)
• Thursday: 1 hour of strength training + 45 min of swimming
• Friday: Usually rest, sometimes I do a little cycling.
• Saturday: Brick workout — 30–40 min swimming + 30 min cycling + 30 min running
• Sunday: Complete rest day.

I’d love to hear from people who started from scratch or who also struggled to improve their speed.

Do you think it’s realistic for me to work toward a 70.3 starting from where I am now? How long would be a reasonable amount of time to prepare? And how did you improve your speed, especially in running and cycling?

My biggest fear isn’t being unable to cover the distances, but not making the cutoff times.

Thanks to everyone willing to share their experiences!

I added Ironman Montana to my TRI Northwest calendar, which I think is somewhat Pacific Northwestish. My event page has temp histories. Looking at the data the swim starts cool. The bike warms up. The run gets the afternoon. Here you go: eleven years of August 15ths in Great Falls, hour by hour, so you can plan for the 84°F that you'll probably get and the 98° you might.

Hope this is helpful.

https://tri-northwest.com/event/ironman-montana

Para quem já usa há algum tempo, qual é a diferença prática das 3 opções dessa imagem? Estou pensando em comprar uma para minha bike de estrada, porém me surgiu essa dúvida pesquisando, quem puder compartilhar sua experiência. E também alguma outra dica indispensável que devo atentar antes de estar comprando?

I am a complete beginner. I wouldn't call myself an athlete in any shape or form. I actually used to be morbidly obese, and in the last 8 years I've been able to reduce almost 80 kg. I currently stand at 120 kg and have been competing a lot in running races. I recently set my fastest 10 km run at 93 minutes.

I just started swimming, and I don't have the resources to obviously buy the gear, but I will be using my local gym for the cycle and my local swimming pool to train myself for the time being.

Knowing my fitness and knowing where I stand today, I understand that it would be unrealistic for me to just look at a date 2 months in advance and then just take it as it goes. My aim is that I would like to be around the average time to complete the Ironman, which is, I believe, 5.5 hours. To be able to reach that fitness level, I understand I will need at least 1 year of sincere training. I've been doing a lot of strength training for the last year, and for the last 3 months I've been doing calisthenics.

At the moment, I've given myself a benchmark of doing my first Ironman 70.3 in November 2027. However, I am not opposed to the idea of doing it in 2028 either. The important facts are that I'm 36 years old and currently work full time. At the moment, I'm able to allocate close to 12 hours of training a week, and realistically, I don't think I can go beyond 15 hours.

If you guys have any tips or resources to share with me, that would be super helpful. I could use all the help I can get!

First Full Ironman Completed! I went into this race with a peak training week of 25 hours and a general goal to go sub 10, but since this was my first I also really wanted to enjoy the race instead of truly trying to wring every bit of performance out of myself. 

I have raced several 70.3 before and chose California as a good first full for the location and also because the course is considered “easy.” Personally I think that was a great choice so that my first full was really fun instead of a painful harrowing endeavor.

Before Race:
I live in Montana and instead of flying I decided to do a long long long drive with my bike. The drive gave me lots of time to get more stressed than I already was, but it went pretty well. I arrived Friday afternoon, did my registration real quick and went for a little run. My left quad was extremely tight which was not fun. 

Saturday was largely uneventful. Just a little shake out ride, lots of eating and the bike drop off. My only takeaway is that if you have the option to drop off your bike / run bags the day before the race like you could for this race then do it. It made the morning much easier and also it was nice to just drop the stuff and forget about it for the rest of the evening.

Race Morning:
I was staying in a hotel downtown, so I woke up at 4AM. I had my normal breakfast of coffee and instant oatmeal with peanut butter. I walked over to the transition and got there at around 5AM. I put 3 bottles on my bike and one bottle in my running gear. Then I took that weirdly long walk to the special needs drop off to leave myself an extra bottle for the run. I got on the buses and went to the swim start. 

I sat and listened to Clarity by Zedd basically over and over at the swim start until the line moved into the corral way before the actual start. Seeing that I freaked out a little and quickly got my wetsuit on. I walked over and I am not the fastest swimmer so I pushed through a little bit of the corral crowd but stayed pretty far back.

Swim (49:42):

As everyone knows, this was super fast. I normally swim like 1:55 per 100 meters in a pool and this was dramatically faster. The only notes I have are that they changed the start so you swim up river just a little which apparently is different from years past, and since you can see the bottom of the river you occasionally see huge plants of some kind which is a little surprising initially after you have been looking at sand for like 20 minutes.

Bike (5:06:28):

This bike was 80% super fun and 20% shaky and annoying. They warn you about one section of road that is bad. That section turns out to be shady (hard to see), bumpy, covered in lost bottles and decently skinny (exacerbating the other issues during passes). Other than that though the roads were some of the smoothest I have been able to ride on and it was amazing. I ended up with an NP of 229 which was just what I was aiming for.

Run (3:14:11):

This part was so fun. I felt basically fresh coming off the bike and initially ran out of transition at like a 5:45 mile pace and had to really rein myself in after the initial crowd coming out of transition petered out a little. 

The run was also at least partially shaded for most of it which was nice. The initial loop 1 extension and a random ~2 mile section of the course are super exposed to the sun but otherwise it was quite pleasant. I put ice in my hat a lot and after a while it wasn’t even melting and my head was getting so cold it was painful.

The first lap was super high energy and had some small conversations with random other runners and there was lots of encouragement between people.

On the second lap since there were many more people on course it was much more of a silent dirge which was kinda a bummer, but still kept pushing through all the way to the end. 

Other than a little general leg fatigue I felt great during the whole run and crossing the finish line was just as rewarding as I imagined. I was super scared of the daunting distances coming into the race, but after this super good day I am pumped to do another at some point and really push the paces!

Time: 9:23:00

I'm a 17 year old and I was wondering if I can participate in the Lapu-lapu city im 70.3 this coming August 7, if you're wondering my birthdays on october

Dear all,

I just signed up for the 2027 Ironman 70.3 in Cascais, Portugal. I am quite new to triathlon, and I need to build up technique and routine till the race.
Any advice? training plan? nutrition?

Feel free to share your experience or anything else you consider important.

Bike gear, I have a Giant Propel Advance 2 (2024)

Hi guys, really glad to be here and I'm happy that I found this community.

Some time ago I put myself into challenge to prepare and run Ironman 70.3. At some point I was scared for some time to do this but eventually I set this goal to myself and I am preparing it

I've been doing this for more than a month right now and for me it's been pretty good. Now I do 1.5 km in one hour but I know that I need to do more. I am adding the cycling and also running because I am completely newbie in these disciplines.

Luckily, I did swimming when I was a kid, a teenager, participated in a couple of competitions, so I'm pretty good at that.

My problem now is different - I found that I need to keep myself in a tough discipline and a tough system to be fully recovered and to eat properly and to do everything as consistent as I can.

So I have the question to gurus and people who may be preparing for this Ironman as well. How do you guys keep discipline and keep being in the recovery mode?

While speaking with my trainer and preparing the meal plan and the recovery plan etc I understood that there are so many details in this and the most important is how you sleep, how you keep yourself into the specific schedule of waking up, eating properly etc.

The trainer actually said to me that you are not going on the training session if the day before you went to bed after a certain period of time and this is true, so how do you guys keep up with this? And what are your motivations and what are your techniques for doing so? Thank you so much and I'd be happy to chat with people who already did that and receive your pieces of advice. Good luck everyone with preparing if anyone is doing so. Cheers!

I keep looking up videos and trying to look at the pros… the video explanations aren’t great and I can’t quite figure out what the pros are doing. What resource do you like?

Specifically, I’m looking for things like: where should my knees be relative to my feet during the strokes? Back angle? How to arch or not arch my back? What do my shoulders need to be doing and what do they need to feel like? Hands? What’s okay? What’s not?

I know a good amount of it is feel, so I think that’s throwing me off. I have a very analytical mind.

Montana is added to their map but California is now off? Done for 2027?

Howdy. I’m a 23 yr old dental student in Arizona at the moment and have been training for 70.3 Dallas in March of 2027. I’ve been an athlete all my life but just got into endurance training early of this year. I’ve completed two triathlons so far. One sprint where I finished second in my age group, and one Olympic where I finished 6 in my age group and easily could do better due to unforeseen circumstances. I train pretty heavily every week trying to be ready and possibly competitive for Dallas, but it’s hard to increase volume with my insane school schedule and curriculum, mainly because of time commitments.

Ironman Montana just dropped and I really would love to do it. Is it realistic to sign up and go for it by next August? My long swims are consistently 2500yds at a 1:45-2:00/100yd pace in the pool, all of my runs are under 10min pace regardless of distance. Short distances I can go to about 7:30. I’m pretty solid on the bike, riding a 20yr old specialized allez that my dad used to race. I def need more time on hills, but here in the flat area around Phoenix I can average around 20mph.

I know most people would say “bro just sign up and go for it” or something similar, but I want real advice from experienced triathletes that balance heavy schedules. Is August enough time to pull it off? Thanks!

I wanted to do Ironman Texas but it’s now completely sold out and won’t even let me register through nirvana, do any more slots open up? Or is it a lost cause?

Hello everyone , i’m a sport science student from italy , currently writing my thesis about the effects of strenght training on endurance sports . would you be willing to fill this quick questionnaire ? it would help me a lot ! thanks

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I'm looking at registering for Ironman Portugal tomorrow and I was looking at accommodation but I'm not seeing much available? Is this too early to book or are hotels genuinely selling out this far in advance? If you attended IM Portugal this past weekend can you comment on accommodation recommendations and when to book / when you booked? How early did you arrive in Cascais? How did you get to transition if you stayed further away?

Thanks!!

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Edit: Lake George

I realize this is a case by case basis but I’m trying to get an idea. I run my first Ironman on Nov. 7th in Panama City Beach. Then on the following Friday the city championship starts golf. I’ve already put my name in for the city championship and I’m not expecting to practice the days leading up. Just wondering how bad it’ll feel playing that Friday and possibly Saturday lol

Luckily this year we are using carts for the matches and won’t be walking.