Gifts for triathletes: before the season and after the race

What to give a triathlete depends on timing. Before the season, give something they will use in training. After a race, give something for recovery or something that records the race. The ideas below are sorted that way and include several things we do not sell. A triathlete has usually chosen their own equipment, so ask before you buy anything that has to fit.

Before the season

Training for three sports uses up a lot of small things.

Smaller gifts

• Spare inner tubes, CO2 cartridges and a puncture repair kit. Check the tyre size and valve type on their bike first.
• Anti-chafe balm and a race belt for the start number.
• Swim caps. Goggles only if you know which model they use, because fit varies from face to face.
• A tow float for open-water training, if they do not already have one.

Larger gifts

• A bike fit with a professional fitter. You do not need to know any sizes, but they have to book the session themselves.
• A swim technique lesson or a block of coaching, if they have said they want help with one of the three sports.
• A wetsuit, but only bought together with them. Size and cut have to be tried on.

After the race

A massage, a meal out and a day with nothing planned all work after a race, and none of them need sizes or files.

A medal hanger is a good gift if the medals are sitting in a drawer. We do not sell hangers or medal frames. Sports shops and online retailers do. If the race sold official photos, you can also buy the one they like most.

A race entry for next season suits someone who has already said they want to race again. Read the organiser's rules on transferring and cancelling an entry before you pay.

A print of their own race

This is the one thing on the list that we sell. A triathlon can be recorded as one multisport activity or as separate swim, bike and run files. Our Multisport motif draws the legs on one sheet and gives each leg its own row of numbers in its own unit: pace per 100 m for the swim, km/h for the bike and pace per km for the run. It takes up to 10 legs.

The print is made from the person's own recordings. It is not the official course, and we are not affiliated with Ironman or any other race organiser. We write "Ironman" and "70.3" here only because those are the names people search for.

### What happens with the swim?

It depends on where they swam. An open-water swim recorded with GPS has a line, and it is drawn like the other legs. A pool swim has no route. Garmin's manual for the Forerunner 255, for example, says the watch measures pool distance by counting completed lengths of the pool size you have set. So a triathlon with a pool swim gives a print with a bike line and a run line. We have a separate article about printing an open-water swim, and one about a print of a long-distance triathlon.

### Price and delivery

A poster costs from 319 kr (30×40 cm), Museum 250 gsm paper from 369 kr, and a framed print from 799 kr. Production takes 2 to 4 working days. Delivery takes 2 to 5 working days in Denmark and 3 to 8 in the rest of the EU, and we do not ship outside the EU. A personalised print has no cooling-off return, but you can cancel for free until the order is released to print. The full list is on the specifications page.

You need the triathlete's files to order. We do not fetch another person's Strava, so ask them to send a GPX, FIT or TCX export of the race. If that would spoil the surprise, a partner or training friend may be able to ask for you. If it is for Christmas, check the order-by dates.

If you cannot ask them anything

Choose a massage or a meal. Everything else on this page works better with one question first: what size, which model, or which file.