Top 10 Things To Do Between Now and Race Day

Spring is (finally!) starting to present itself, and as the days get longer and the weather gets hotter, we find ourselves getting more and more excited to start racing.

But we’re not there yet. Or at least most British and European athletes aren’t, with the first races of the 2026 season scheduled in late April and early May.

Now’s the perfect time to get excited about racing … and to prepare yourself for the season ahead.

Here’s our list of the top 10 things you should do between now and race day.

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2026 Aquabike Season Preview

The first races of 2026 have already begun in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, UAE, USA and the Northern Mariana Islands (the first aquabike race ever to be held here!). But for the rest of us, the 2026 race season is yet to begin.

However, the start of race season is definitely getting nearer. The weather is warming up, the days are getting longer, and bikes are starting to emerge from turbo trainers and out on to the roads.

So, here’s our 2026 Aquabike Season Preview. There’s already so much to get excited about.

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Aquabike World 2025 Season Review

What a phenomenal year of aquabike racing 2025 was. With aquabike athletes from 56 different countries competing throughout the year, over 10,000 race finishes and 3 countries hosting their first ever aquabike race, 2025 has firmly stamped its place in aquabike history. And that’s before we even mention the incredible season of Neil SEMMEL!

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True Aquabike Dedication

To be honest I really didn’t know what headline to use, to give this story the credit it deserves. It is about a great achievement of an athlete but also a massive tribute to this project. It might not be visible from the outside, but I invest so much time in Aquabike.World and there are times when I wonder, if people actually really care about it. But its stories like this, which show that there are people who do care about it, who have a great passion for the sports and take some extra motivation from what we do.

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My Top 5 Features of My Aquabike Premium Account

Have you ever wondered if it really makes sense to pay for a premium account? Georgia Hamblett gives you some insights on how usefull the features for Aquabike.World premium members really are for an athlete.

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Off-Season Do’s & Dont’s for Aquabike Athletes

By Coach Karen Parnell MSc, Triathlon & Multisport Coach

The off-season is a gift. Used well, it protects your long-term progress, tidies up niggles, hardens your strengths (swimming and cycling!), and lets you stroll into base training feeling fresh, not rusty.

Below are coach-tested, evidence-backed do’s and don’ts tailored to Aquabike athletes — followed by a practical way to ease back into structured training with one of my Aquabike Maintenance Plans, available on Final Surge and TrainingPeaks.

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New #1 in Women’s Aquabike.World Ranking

Last May long term leader of the Aquabike.World women’s ranking Monika Lukens has been pushed off the top spot of the podium by Eleanore Nash but regained her position only one week later. Though this time it looks like the new leader will stay up there for a little longer.

After major events, there are naturally always a few more shifts in the rankings. But the new #1 was not a participant in last week’s standard distance world championships in Wollongong, Australia.

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2025 Aquabike Standard Distance World Championships Wollongong Race Report

It’s only seven years since the first ever aqaubike race took place in Australia. While the development wasn’t huge from the get-go, it gained some momentum with the announcement of the long-distance world championships taking place in Townsville 2024 and after Ironman events started including aquabike options in their races. Today every Ironman 70.3 event in Australia offers an aquabike option – and so do pretty much all other middle-distance races as well as many shorter and smaller events as well.

Last weeks race in Wollongong vividly showed what a success story this young aquabike discipline has been over the last few years in Downunder. Despite not a huge number of athletes travelling across the oceans from all around the world, no less than 430 aquabike athletes showed up at the start line, making it the second biggest race in the history of our sport. While the number of competitors was a bit below last year’s race in Torremolinos, the athlete’s race experience certainly wasn’t.

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