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Your first 70.3 could start this Monday.
IRONMAN 70.3 Texas is on Galveston Island on April 4, 2027. That’s 22 weeks out, right inside the 20–24 week window most first-timers need for a half.
Why it made the list:
→ sheltered bayou swim, wetsuit likely
→ almost no climbing on the bike
→ three flat run loops, crowds every lap
The honest catch: coastal wind. Flat on paper isn’t flat with a headwind.
New on every TriLaunchpad race brief: tap “Build my plan for this race” and V.E.C.T.O.R. plans every week from today to the start line, around the hours you actually have. Free, by email. Your key bike sessions come as TrainingPeaks-ready files (swim and run are in the plan).
DM me PLAN and I’ll send you the brief. Send this to the friend you’d race it with.
V.E.C.T.O.R. is an AI, not a doctor or certified coach. Share any plan with yours.
¿En español? Escríbeme PLAN y te mando el brief en español.
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Found our race: Ironman 70.3 Acapulco. This beginner brief has the course, costs, where to stay & a race-morning plan: triathlon.mx/pages/ironman-7…
05 of 10 — Getting there and staying there are two different races
A plane uses its maximum thrust for takeoff. It takes everything the engines have to get that much weight off the ground. Once it’s at cruising altitude, the pilots pull the power way back, and the job becomes navigating, managing fuel and steering around storms.
Jet engines can only hold takeoff thrust for a few minutes. Stay there too long and you wear out the engine.
My first triathlon felt like takeoff. I had to learn to swim in open water, buy gear I didn’t understand, and wake up at 5 a.m. to train three sports. It took everything I had.
Staying fit felt different. It didn’t ask for heroic effort. It asked for consistency, patience and steering around what can bring you down: injuries, burnout, skipped seasons.
I think money works the same way. Making it takes takeoff thrust: hard work, risk and full commitment. Keeping it seems to ask for something else: humility about risk, not betting it on someone else’s dream, and remembering that luck played a part.
The tricky part is that nobody tells you when you’ve reached cruising altitude. The habits that got you off the ground feel like the ones that will keep you there. That’s the moment I try to watch for, in training and with money.
Lots of people get fit and don’t stay fit. Lots of people get rich and don’t stay rich. Maybe they just never noticed it was time to pull back the thrust.
Take off with everything you’ve got. Then watch for the moment to cruise.
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Your gym bag talks before you do. 🏊♂️🚴♂️🏃♂️
Nobody at the gym knows you swim at 6am, ride on Saturdays and run on tired legs. The bag can say it for you.
10 drawstring bags from the TriSpirit store, each one a slightly different confession:
→ Tri Mode On: training is a setting, not a mood
→ Eventually: slow is still a finish
→ I Tri For Beer: honest about the motivation
→ Tri Today, Walk Tomorrow: yes, the stairs will hurt
Which one is you? Tell me in the comments, then send this to the training partner who still shows up with a grocery bag.
DM me “BAG” and I’ll send you the link to the one you picked. All ten are on triathlon.mx (link in bio). Also the easiest gift for the triathlete who’s impossible to shop for.
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03 of 10 · things triathlon taught me about money 💵
nobody asks a triathlete how many years the training added to their life. they ask for your time.
and don’t get me wrong, i want the medal. i want the faster split. the race on the calendar is what gets me out of bed at 5am. chasing the outcome is good. it gives the training a direction.
but if the outcome is the only thing i measure, i miss most of what the sport gave me. the health. the years i probably added. feeling younger at 48 than i did at 38. the things i can still do because my body still works.
i see money the same way.
ask how much you’ll make. ask about the salary, the bonus. those are fair questions and goals worth chasing. just don’t stop there. ask how your life gets better. how much time it frees up. what you’ll finally be able to say yes to.
because when the number is the only scoreboard, it’s never enough. there’s always someone with more money, more power. someone who swims faster, rides faster, runs faster. i didn’t need a results sheet in pontevedra to know that.
the medal is a snapshot. the training is the story.
the number in the account is a snapshot. what it gives back to your life is the story.
go for the medal. go for the raise. just keep counting what you gained on the way there.
what’s one thing money gave you that never shows up on a statement?
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