No Limits Map to Triathlon Podcast · Todd Malcolm - Ironman specific triathlon coach

206 - I just signed up for Calgary 70.3

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Todd Malcolm opens by saying he has signed up for Ironman 70.3 Calgary. He makes it clear this is not just a casual entry. The race sits inside a bigger goal: qualifying for his 12th world championship, this time in Nice in 2026. He is speaking as a coach, but also as the athlete who still has to do the work. That tension gives the episode its shape. Earlier in the year he went to California for a five-day training camp. The group returned to Wildflower after a seven-year gap, and they raced there on the final two days of the trip. He also went to Victoria 70.3 and watched that race. Those experiences sit in the background while he thinks through what his own summer needs to look like. He explains that a lot of his week is already locked in by coached sessions. He leads running class, lake swims, and a group bike ride, so those workouts are the ones he knows will happen. The solo work has to slot in around them. For him that means long runs, a bike ride on his own, and another run when the week allows it. He says the long run is the piece he really needs to protect. That is where the build lives. He had just come back from New Brunswick, where he was helping his wife set up a cottage for the summer. He brought his swim gear and running shoes with him. The pool was closed. He did not want to swim in the ocean because of jellyfish. So he ran on the beach every day instead. He says it was beautiful, and he got a little sunburned too. Back home, he starts laying out the next stretch of training. The plan is a 90-minute long run on Sunday. The following week goes to 1 hour 45 minutes. The week after that moves to two hours. He points to the July 7 week as the third week in that progression. The whole thing feels like a coach thinking out loud in real time. He is checking the schedule and checking what can be stacked on top of what. That is why the episode moves the way it does. It is part race sign-up, part travel log, part training audit. He keeps circling back to the same idea: the workouts he leads will happen, so the key is making sure the solo work does too. By the end, he is looking ahead to Calgary and inviting people to say hi if they see him on the course or on the sidelines.

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A race signup becomes a calm, practical reset on training discipline.

The episode centers on Calgary 70.3, with Todd Malcolm laying out a 2026 Nice world-championship goal and then working through what that choice means in practice.

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Episode 206 is a coach's own signup story: Todd Malcolm has entered Ironman 70.3 Calgary on July 27 and is aiming at a 12th world championship spot in Nice, France, in 2026.

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