IM70.3-MEL-2026 · ST KILDA, AU

Daily training journal — building toward IRONMAN 70.3 Melbourne.

RACE START
2026-11-08 · 07:00 AEDT
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DAYS
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HOURS
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MINUTES
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SECONDS
SWIM
Port Phillip Bay, St Kilda
1.9km
BIKE
Beach Road · 2 laps
90km
RUN
Catani Gardens · half marathon
21.1km

Latest entry

On the edge of impossible

Breathing became much, much easier.

What is impossible?

Today I had a strong swim session. Breathing became much, much easier, though this 1.9 km task is still impossible where I am today.

Got up in the morning and had a banana smoothie with berries, protein powder, and creatine.

Going to Jaipur, but the planning was such that I would do a swim session before I leave. For it, for Jaipur, there is no more priority in life currently. I am reading a book called Eat and Run, and I'm reading a book on running and focusing on swimming. It's an irony of life, but it is what it is.

Breathing became much, much easier.

Sahil Mehta triathlon training image from Sat Jun 27 2026 00:00:00 GMT-0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
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RUN · 21.13km ↗

Training log

Training log — last 14 days

VOLUME · 14D
109.5km
-17%
DURATION · 14D
13:58hrs
ROLLING
STREAK
7days
ACTIVE
WEEKLY VOLUME · 12W SWIM 5.3km BIKE 63km RUN 41km
W-11W-10W-09W-08W-07W-06W-05W-04W-03W-02W-01THIS

Why I'm doing this

I am not training to finish my race in November. I am training to be the best version of myself.

This is a public ledger. Every workout — the good, the boring, the ones I would rather not remember — gets logged here automatically from Strava. No filtering. No retroactive story arc.

I am 40-something, working a real job, training around it. The interesting stuff is not the race day. It is the ordinary morning before work. The lap before the rhythm clicks. The kilometre where the mind stops narrating and the body just gets on with it.

Melbourne is the deadline. Showing up is the point.

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