BeginnerTriathlete.com

TESTIMONIALS

I consider BT membership some of the best bang for the buck I spent triathlon related. For basic training/equipment info, articles, videos, access to plans of all sorts is well beyond what BT charges. I think for a beginner to intermediate athlete it is invaluable. Upload log feature is excellent, graphs and amount of data to track and do basic analysis is excellent. I can't really say enough of good things about various levels of membership. The key is picking the level that will suit you. - atasic

I just upgraded to BRONZE and importing from my Garmin is awesome. Way better than paging through the laps on the watch screen and typing them in. I think it's worth the time spent. I also like being able to enter a planned and compare my planned training to my actual training. - ahohl

The only time I regretted was when I let my membership lapse for a week or so. I was in between training plans, and so I decided I didn't need the daily e-mail reminder when my plan lapsed. Within a few days of lapsing, I was sick of manually entering the Garmin data (how can I find that more tiresome than the actual workout? I wish I understood that), and re-upped. Otherwise, I am very happy with the SILVER membership. I'm not good enough to get a coach, and don't have aspirations at this time to do so. My top reason for doing tri's is to control weight, not to be more competitive. - gearboy

First 6 months I had free membership, then went to SILVER for the logs & plans, now I have ONLINE SUPPORT and have to say its worth it. Coach and program support is pretty nice. Some people prefer to build their own and that is ok but being only 1 yr in the sport this gives me alot of info. Online support with Garmin watch is absolutely amazing. Being able to have everything in 1 log is priceless. - trix

I have the BRONZE membership, mainly for the Garmin uploading feature and the equipment tracker. My husband does my plans, so I don't use the free ones for myself. I do, however, use the couch to 5K plan for my running peeps. Never regretted joining. Not once. - Mrs. brown_dog_us

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I keep renewing so I can have that cool little SILVER medal under my name. But seriously, I love my SILVER membership. I can upload a IM plan and adjust according to my needs. The silver plans are much more detailed and involved than I would do on my own. Not having to type in Garmin data is awesome. - papson14

I love my SILVER membership and access to all the plans. I have used them pretty much exclusively and they have gotten me to many PR's and through my first (and hopefully second) IM. - Kido

I upgraded to SILVER in January. I had plenty of training books and stuff, but I felt that the amount of effort these guys put into the site I wanted to give something back. That being said, I like the training plans I've gotten a lot. And the Garmin plug-in is huge for me! - mcgilmartin

I started at BRONZE, went up to SILVER for more plans, tried the ONLINE SUPPORT option (and benefited from it) last summer and am back to SILVER because I really don't have many questions for the coaches. I really benefited from the NUTRITION membership too and highly recommend it. - skarl

I am going to suggest you upgrade, simply for the fact that you can then import the training plan and more fully use the features of the log. Keeping track of my progress, whatever the plan, I find to be valuable and BT does it well. You get a TON more choices for the SILVER, including a plan written by a D3 Multisport coach. They are involved and accountable to BT which I think says something good. Unless money is an issue, I think the silver membership is worth it. - BikerGrrrl

SILVER: I have used several of the plans: 1/2 marathon, Oly, and winter maintenance (run focused). I customized winter maintenance (because I wanted to do Jorge's Winter Cycling Plan) with little difficulty. The 1/2 marathon got me across the finish line faster than I thought I could. The Oly plan I wasn't a big fan of (not very predictable in terms of volume, bounced focus from sport to sport, just didn't feel organized enough for me). What I have realized is the plans are a great starting point for me - then I do some customization based on my specific needs/schedule/work load, etc. I like having the freedom to look at all of the plans - even if I'm not going to use them. - itsallrelative_Maine