Sam Long may have committed to the T100 again this year – but that’s not his big 2025 target.
When announcing his full race schedule in his latest YouTube video , which is embedded below, the ‘Big Unit’ admitted that top-level triathletes currently have an embarrassment of riches to choose from.
In 2024 he had a packed programme which saw him not only take in six T100 events but also win IRONMAN Chattanooga as well as two 70.3 races, all of which helped him finish the year in fifth on the PTO world rankings.
There will again be a combination of T100 and IRONMAN-branded events but he’s clear on his ‘A+ race’ in the upcoming campaign and that’s the IRONMAN World Championship in Nice on 14th September. Kona 2026 already in the picture
Looking at the year as a whole, Long says: “There’s so much to pick and choose from right now – every year I feel like it gets more and more complicated [in terms of] what I’m going to go after.”
He says one important consideration – and learning from the recent past – is reducing the amount he travels: “I raced on five continents last year. I just think if you do too much international travel, it just kills your energy. But maybe even worse is it just kills your mood, it just kills your vibe, it just makes life unenjoyable.”
So that’s one change factored in but that trip to Nice in the second half of the year is the […]
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