TriVelo Coaching is one-on-one online coaching for age groupers training for an Ironman or Ironman 70.3, in any country. We ask for 12 months for an Ironman and about four to six months for a 70.3 if you already have some experience. It costs $99 USD a week, plus GST in Australia.
Head coach Gerard Donnelly won the Australian Ironman Championship in 1988 and was runner-up in 1989. He now meets our coaches each week to go through every athlete.
We will never use AI to write your program or coach you. Read our stance on AI.
Time to prepare: We ask for 12 months. Six months is the absolute minimum.
Longest sessions: A solo ride of up to six hours and a three-hour run
Time to prepare: Brand new to the sport: about six months, and up to 12 if you've never ridden a bike or done a triathlon. Intermediate or experienced: four to six months.
Longest sessions: A long ride that goes past your expected race ride time. If your race ride will take three hours, you build to at least four. You also swim at least twice a week.
Those times are for doing it properly. Short builds can work, but as we say on the podcast, "you are banking on everything going right."
All of these come from case studies on our Get Fast Podcast.
He'd barely trained since 2011. His FTP went from 213 W to 278 W in that time, and he later took his 5 km pace from 6:04 to 4:50 per km. He asked us: "would you take on an old, average but determined bloke?"
She'd coached herself until then and hadn't raced an Ironman since 2001. It took 18 months, around a busy job and a son.
She's a 26-year-old pilot with an irregular schedule. Her 70.3 best is 5:08.
He's a strong former rower who fits training around shift work as a med student and doctor. From Western Sydney 70.3 to Melbourne 70.3, on different courses, his bike went from 2:15 to 2:04 and his run pace from 3:53 to 3:42 per km.
She finished in 6:10, four months after joining us. Her weekly running went from 10 to 20 km to more than 30 km.
He made the 1,900 m swim cut-off by about six minutes.
We calibrate your numbers in week one and recalibrate them every four to six weeks. Your sessions come from those numbers, so your race targets come from work you've actually done.
Gerard asks athletes to show how they got their numbers. If your plan says 200 W, you prove it from your training. Your plan gets checked before you race.
You ride and run at the power and speed you expect on race day. You also practise fuelling at that same intensity, because a bunch ride won't tell you what your race will burn.
We go through what happened and what comes next.
Your coach reviews your data and your notes, and that decides what you do next. There's no fixed plan loaded six months ahead.
You get one coach, who moves sessions when work or family gets in the way. We don't put a limit on how much our coaches contact our athletes. Our goal is to get you the best results possible, and we communicate as much as that takes.
Ours costs $99 USD a week, which is about $429 USD a month, plus GST in Australia. The same price covers a 70.3.
Apply and tell us. Mitch came to us 14 weeks out from Ironman Western Australia with no Ironman behind him, and he went 10:28 at Busselton. He also got injured along the way and couldn't run until four weeks out. Gerard's advice is not to copy that. Give yourself as long as you can.
Yes. Most of our athletes train around work. Gerard will ask about your job and family on the call. If the time you have doesn't suit your goal, he'll say so.
Talk to us about your starting point on the call. We've taken athletes from being unable to swim 50 m to finishing a 70.3.
Yes, on the bike you ride. Train and race from the same power meter, so your race numbers match your training.
If your calibrated numbers don't improve in your first 8 weeks, the coaching is on us.
No. We don't lock you into a fixed six or 12-month contract, and you pay weekly in advance. You can pause for genuine reasons such as injury or significant illness.
More questions? Read the full coaching FAQ.
Also see: triathlon coaching, how much to train for a 70.3, how to peak for your race, what's included, about Gerard and Jordan.
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