Training Load Data for 95 Age-Group Triathletes Across Six Months

95 age-group triathletes from 25 countries provided objective training load data for 34,731 sessions over six months. The dataset includes session distance, duration, average heart rate, and training stress score, analyzed by sex, age, race distance preference, and training phase. Author Leighton A. Wells published the data on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare weekly training load metrics between long-course and short-course triathletes based on reported minutes, kilometers, and TSS.
• Analyze variations in training load across different training phases (e.g., specific, off-season) using the weekly metrics provided.
• Investigate the association of demographic factors like sex and age with objective training load measures such as heart rate and TSS.

Strengths

• Contains data from 34,731 individual training sessions, providing a detailed activity-level view.
• Includes objective metrics like training stress score (TSS) and average heart rate for each session.
• Covers a diverse cohort of 95 athletes from 25 different countries.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the main aggregated table is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small in scale at 186.7 KB, representing a limited sample of triathletes.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Data collected via an online survey from a cohort of age-group triathletes.

Time Range

Covers a six-month observation period (specific dates not provided).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 05:23:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Triathletes from 25 countries; specific countries not listed.