Vivek Sharma · @the.singing.triathlete

The race is always
inside your head.

Building mental strength through endurance sport. Sharing everything I learn along the way.

Follow the journey First Ironman guide →
3 Finish lines Goa 2024 · Western Australia 2025 · Tallinn 2026
0 Prior experience Couldn't swim 25m a year before Goa
515 km. What's next. Ultraman 2027 · 3 days · for a cause

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Guide · Live

Your First Ironman, Answered Honestly

Every question you're too hesitant to ask on a forum. 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, Ironman WA, and Ironman Tallinn felt like from the inside: the doubt, the hard stretches, and what was waiting on the other side.

3 racesGoa · WA · Tallinn
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Ultraman · 2027

The Road to Ultraman

515 km over three days. After Goa, WA, and Tallinn, this is the next chapter. 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), Ironman Western Australia (2025), and Ironman Tallinn (2026). 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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