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Triathlon is culturally perceived as a solo sport. Yet its three disciplines — swimming, cycling, running — are among the ones that benefit most from being practiced together.
Join TriMatesAsk any triathlete what they did this weekend. Chances are the answer will be: "long solo ride", "pool session alone this morning", "1-hour easy recovery run". Everyone, individually, at different times.
This pattern has become the norm. Amateur triathletes train mostly alone, even though they practice three sports that aren't individual at their core.
Each of its three disciplines benefits from being shared. Here's why.
Easy runs, fartlek, track sessions: running naturally accommodates groups of varied paces. You can run side by side, chat about breathing, double your enjoyment. It's also the historical format of clubs and running associations.
Amateur cycling invented the peloton. Riding with others means sharing turns at the front, benefiting from drafting, securing the outing in case of trouble. A long solo ride is sad — a group ride is memorable.
Pool lanes and supervised open-water sessions almost always work as groups. The motivation to grind out the laps comes as much from your lane-mates as from the session itself. And in open water, it's also a safety matter.
It's harder to cancel a session when someone is waiting for you. Consistency is the key to any endurance progression — and consistency is far easier to hold in a group.
Training with others forces you to confront your paces, your gear choices, your recovery routines. It's also how you learn the technical details no book covers.
A story to tell when you get home. A funny moment from the session. A friendly bet on the next intervals. Team sport creates memories where solo sport creates data.
Puncture in the middle of nowhere, strained calf 15 km from your start point, panic in open water: leaving in a group reduces both the risk and the fear of risk. This is what holds back many beginners, especially in open-water swimming and cycling.
Triathlon wasn't always solo. The pioneers trained in clubs, shared brick workouts, planned their season together. The shift is recent, and comes from three factors.
Strava, Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks: tracking apps have made individual performance-tracking the norm. You watch your own numbers, without looking at others.
Clubs provide structure, apps measure, Facebook groups improvise — but nothing really facilitates meeting between amateur triathletes by sport, level, area and time slot.
The myth of the triathlete preparing alone, in silence and suffering, remains very present. It writes well — but it excludes many people and isolates even more.
TriMates is a free community platform, with no subscription or membership fee, built to make triathlon a team sport.
On an interactive map, every member posts their training sessions (run, ride, swim — date, place, level, distance) or joins the ones of other TriMates near them. Automatic matching alerts you when a session fits your sport, level, area and time slots.
TriMates is not a club. No commitment, no fixed schedule, no annual fee. Just a tool to turn every session into a chance to meet someone. Particularly useful in summer, when clubs shut down and the community keeps running.
Join the community for free and find your training teammates.