Vivek Sharma · @the.singing.triathlete

The race is always
inside your head.

Building mental strength through endurance sport — and sharing everything I learn along the way.

Follow the journey First Ironman guide →
2 Finish lines Goa 2024 · Western Australia 2025
0 Prior experience Couldn't swim 25m a year before Goa
515 km — what's next Ultraman 2027 · 3 days · for a cause

What's here

Guide · Live

Your First Ironman, Answered Honestly

Every question you're too hesitant to ask on a forum — about whether you're too old, too slow, too new, or too busy. 70.3 and 140.6, metric units, Indian context.

40+ questions8 categories
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Race Reports · Live

What It Was Actually Like

No splits. No charts. Just what Ironman 70.3 Goa and Ironman WA felt like from the inside — the doubt, the hard stretches, and what was waiting on the other side.

2 racesGoa & Western Australia
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Ultraman · 2027

The Road to Ultraman

515 km over three days. After Goa and WA, this is the next chapter — and a fundraise to give more men access to endurance training as a path to mental strength.

Target: 2027Fundraise coming
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The story

This Is Not a Fitness Story

Nobody taught us that doing something hard for yourself is allowed. This is the honest account of what endurance sport actually gives you.

Delhi → Western AustraliaUltraman 2027
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About

Not a coach.
Just someone who showed up.

I'm Vivek Sharma — an Indian triathlete who finished Ironman 70.3 Goa (2024) and Ironman Western Australia (2025). A year before Goa, I couldn't swim 25 metres and didn't own a road bike. What changed that was people — a friend who lent me a bike, someone who found me a swim coach, a training group who let me figure things out alongside them.

I discovered something on the way to those finish lines that nobody told me in advance: endurance sport builds mental strength in a way nothing else quite does. Not by talking about hard things. By doing them, week after week, until the hard thing isn't hard anymore — and you realise you've become someone different.

This site is where I write what I wish someone had told me. And where I'll launch the campaign for Ultraman — the biggest hard thing I can currently imagine.

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Vivek running the Ironman WA marathon along the Busselton foreshore
Ironman WA · Dec 2025
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