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Racing to keep up: Is social media making us train harder?

Endurance sport has become a performance we share, and social media is raising the bar on effort. But is the constant stream of training and racing on social inspirational - or does it have the potential to drive us towards FOMO-induced burn out?

By India Paine

Sports journalist

Last updated -

7 Aug 2025

You used to scroll through Instagram and see someone’s beach holiday. Now, it’s their Sunday long run, what they’ve eaten in a day to fuel their training, and their back-to-back 70.3 race results. All...

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Writer, runner, and cyclist, India Paine is a freelance contributor to TRI247.

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