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Guides & Knowledge Base

Knowledge on training, nutrition, gear and race strategy.

Guide

Create a triathlon training plan with Claude

Two ways to a plan in Tri-Train — the deterministic generator and a conversation with Claude that knows your Garmin data. When each one fits, how to brief Claude and how the sessions get onto your watch.

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Analyse Garmin data with Claude — the Tri-Train MCP server

How to connect Claude to your Garmin and Strava data without installing anything — what an MCP server is, what Claude can see, which questions are worth asking and where the limits are.

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Training

Building a Triathlon Training Plan — Structure, Progression, Control

How a triathlon training plan comes together: backwards from race day, with periodisation, a recovery rhythm and a rate of progression that does not end in overtraining.

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Einstieg

Triathlon for Beginners — Planning Your First Season

Which distance suits a first race, what a realistic training week with three to five sessions looks like, and which equipment you actually need.

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Grundlagen

Setting Your Training Zones — FTP, Threshold Pace, LTHR and CSS

How to measure your thresholds for bike, run and swim, which tests are worth doing, and why zones from the 220-minus-age formula are useless.

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Grundlagen

Understanding Training Load — TSS, CTL, ATL and TSB

What TSS measures, how fitness (CTL), fatigue (ATL) and form (TSB) come out of it — and why negative form in the middle of a build block is exactly right.

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Wettkampf

Tapering Before a Race — Less, But Not Slower

How long the taper runs for each distance, what volume remains, and why intensity and session frequency are precisely what you do not reduce.

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Training

Swim, Bike, Run — How Much of Each

Why training time is not split the way race time is, how the balance shifts with distance, and what to cut first when training time is short.

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