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Triathlon - Transition Tips
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Ideas to make your transitions as fast - or faster - than the rest of your triathlon legs.

About Triathlon Swimming - Tips and Tactics for Triathletes
Level Two Triathlon Coach and triathlete Brendon Downey, from the Millennium Institute of Sport & Health in New Zealand, offers some triathlon swim technique tips and tactics for triathletes that don't have to do with the actual swimming.

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Transition One
Make sure you are aware of how you are supposed to enter and exit the transition zone prior to the event start. The race director will announce the procedure.

Transition Two
Follow the same basic rules as you did in the first transition.

Triathlon Transition Tips, from Triathlete.org
Getting in and out of the transition area makes all the difference in a sprint race, but smooth  race transitions also help in Ironman distances.

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