Why Triathlon Taren Quit Strava

Triathlon Taren got called out for not being on Strava after telling people to follow him there, he explains why he hasn't been on Strava in over a month and if he'll be back on. Triathlon Taren starts the day with the longest marathon swimming workout of the year: a 4.5 hour pool swim with mostly freestyle swimming, then he heads home to explain the purpose of the long marathon swimming sessions, how the swimming workout was designed, and finally why he hasn't been on Strava in a long time.

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[dmosier]

all that time in the pool and no headphones? About when did the hallucinations start?

[jonasfloriani]

Hi Taren...you can use the 'drill' setting on the 920xt for the kicks...it will count the time and when you are done you manually add the distance of the drill so you get it right...

[mattgray]

Taren, just purchased one of the new training programs. Looks great, cannot wait to get started.

[EmileKleinhans]

Hi Taren. When you hit the lap/rest button you can scroll up to the drill menu and do your kick set and then the 920xt will predict and ask you in the end how far you kicked or did a drill. Thereafter scroll down and continue resting and hit rest/lap again to do rest of you swimming. Great swim there. My furthest was 5km.

[renaudgrandgeorge]

Hi from France.
Taren, 1 nutrition question; how come you still have solid food during swim sessions? Wouldn't gels be more convenient and/or easier on your bowels (beside being more rapidly digested)?

[Theferrell]

I feel ya man. Once I had a workout in college that was 10, 000 yards in 2 hours for a distance workout. Yea, that day really hurt. In addition, every year, we do 100 100's at full out race pace on the 3 minute intervals. Had to hold 46 second 100 freestyles, and 51 second 100 backstrokes. Sufficeth to say, we ate at a brazilian steakhouse for like 3 hours after that workout :D

[Planetarypilgrim]

Since I have limited time I have also not been on Strava, even getting a bit behind on these you tube videos. So understand completely

[cheeplestase]

my phone won't even open strava or sweat mobile. I log my runs on an old school training log and it works great for me. I appreciate the videos, its helping me a lot to better understand tri training

[timbranton]

Ouch. What a swim.

Agree completely with your decision. Recording, editing and posting a video every day is a massive commitment.

Look forward to seeing how your community develops

[bonn]

dude 155 in the middle hurts my legs just thinking of it

[wagnerabreu]

Hi Taren, have you ever thought about hosting a show like the Ginger Runner Live? It's the only thing I miss in your channel.

[jorrevandeweyer]

Hi tarin i have my A-race in 2 months (national youth championships) for triathlon and I'm struggling with running pain. I'm not to sure what it is exacly but I think it's a shin splint on another spot again. What should i do? I' m seeing a doctor in a few days but should i try to train my running yet or just replace it with more biking and swimming? Ant tips?
And I want to thank you for your vlogs you really inspire me and motivate me, when i feel like f*ck every thing what am I even training for? And i watch your videos i want to get outside and get fast so thank you !!! You rock

[rmoreno]

I wish we had an indoor pool where I'm from in Texas.. 1 hour swim and my skin on my neck and shoulders starts burning :(

[woody]

Didn't mean to call you out. You're not up for syncing the workout to strava and just leaving the comments and forum alone? I just think it's a nice way to back up the vlog .

[permablegms]

I'm a competitive swimmer and I also do triathlons but we do 2 swim practices a day that are about 13-15k total a day

[immerchriswell]

Taren if you don't post to Strava how can I keep up with your workouts/life? It's not like you vlog every day. Can't wait for you to hit the taper PROcess.

[biggowiggo]

8:09 How much less can I do? For instance cutting half of the swim training you accomplished this day. Although psychologically it may have an advantage, it takes quite a long time to recover well and you're also losing time to do a lot of other things.
Keep up the good work though!!

[tomwtri]

Hey Taren, I totally understand the time commitment on everything outside of YouTube. Did you know you can do automatic uploads to strava after every workout? You can do auto sync with your garmin connect & strava, that way every time a workout gets uploaded to garmin connect, it gets uploaded to strava

[loganlessard]

I swam 1, 8km in 30 min non stop and at the end I wasn't feeling my arm and could have probably continued swimming

[AmyStone]

I literally cannot imagine anything worse than this many hours in a pool. Good job.