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Feisty Triathlon is a podcast from Feisty Media designed specifically for women who swim, bike, and run. It covers the full range of the sport: sprint-distance tactics, Ironman preparation, open-water swimming, race nutrition, and the conversations that don't usually make it into mainstream triathlon media. The show exists because women's experiences in triathlon are genuinely different, and the advice that applies to a 35-year-old male age-grouper often doesn't translate.
What the show actually covers
Each episode of Feisty Triathlon goes deep on a specific aspect of the sport. Some episodes focus on training structure: how to build a base without burning out, how to manage three disciplines when you also have a job and a life. Others bring in coaches, sports scientists, and elite athletes to talk through the evidence behind common practices. Recovery, periodization, heat adaptation, race-day pacing. The conversations are specific, not vague.
The show doesn't treat female athletes as an afterthought. Hormones matter in triathlon. So does the menstrual cycle, and so does the shift that happens in perimenopause and beyond. Feisty Triathlon addresses these directly, which puts it in a category most triathlon podcasts don't occupy. If you've ever wanted to know how your cycle affects your swim pacing or your fueling needs on the bike, this show answers those questions with actual research behind them.
Race coverage also features regularly. The show has addressed the Ironman Kona qualification system and what it means for age-group women chasing that slot. That's practical information that changes how athletes plan their seasons.
Who it's for
Feisty Triathlon works best for women who are already in the sport and want to get smarter about it. That could mean a first-year triathlete trying to understand periodization, or a ten-year age-grouper who wants to understand why performance shifted after 40. The show doesn't talk down to its audience. It assumes you know what a brick session is and moves from there.
It's also useful for women who are considering the sport and want an honest picture of what it involves. Triathlon has a reputation for being expensive and intimidating. Feisty Triathlon doesn't pretend otherwise, but it does show what's actually manageable with the right preparation.
Women who are already listeners of Hit Play Not Pause will find the tone familiar: evidence-based, direct, and specifically oriented toward female physiology. Feisty Triathlon applies that same approach to race preparation and sport-specific training.
What separates it from general triathlon podcasts
Most triathlon podcasts are built around elite male performance with occasional features on women. The advice, the training volumes, the race examples: all skewed toward a demographic that doesn't represent most of the people actually at the start line of a local triathlon. Feisty Triathlon corrects that.
The show also sits within a broader media network that takes women's performance seriously across multiple disciplines. The Feisty Women's Performance podcast covers training and health at a broader level, and the two shows complement each other well. Feisty Triathlon drills into the sport-specific detail; the sister show addresses the underlying physiology.
Production quality is consistent. Episodes run long enough to go deep but don't pad. Guests are well-chosen: coaches who work with age-group women, researchers who study female physiology, athletes who have actually raced at a range of distances and stages of life.
How to start listening
Feisty Triathlon is available on all major podcast platforms. New listeners can search the back catalogue by topic rather than going chronologically. If your priority is swim performance, start there. If you're building toward your first long-course race, look for the episodes on long-course preparation and race nutrition first. The show rewards selective listening based on where you are in your season.
If you're balancing triathlon training with managing menopause symptoms, the episodes on female physiology are worth prioritizing. The intersection of endurance sport and hormonal change is underserved in most sports media. Feisty Triathlon covers it without hedging.