Achieving Triathlon Race Weight

Achieving Triathlon Race Weight

From The Lonely Triathlete - triathlon training and motivation for the masses by Todd Sauder

May 31, 2026 · 28 min

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The episode discusses the importance of achieving optimal race weight for triathletes and the personal journey of the host in managing weight while training.

Don't most of us want to be the most optimal weight for racing? Don't most of us love eating? Don't most of us just let nature take its course and we'll then just race at whatever weight we happened to get to? It doesn't have to be that way. Come join our growing community at www.patreon.com/thelonelytriathlete TRANSCRIPT Welcome back to The Lonely Triathlete. On January 2nd, 2026, I stepped on the scale and saw a number I wasn't expecting: 193 pounds. The strange part wasn't the number itself. The strange part was that I was already training again. I had restarted my triathlon training at the end of October. I was doing dryland swim training, cycling, running, and doing all the things endurance athletes are supposed to do. Yet somehow I was carrying around an extra 23 pounds compared to where I sit today. And you know the strangest part of all? I didn't really think I needed to lose weight. I mean, I knew I was way heavier than I wanted to be for race performance but... I didn't look overweight. I wasn't struggling to fit into my clothes. Nobody was pulling me aside to express concern. The weight was distributed evenly enough that I simply looked like a bigger version of myself…

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