Lo U Ian (羅譽寅) was born and raised in Macau and has lived in Taiwan since coming here for university. He is a professional triathlon and marathon coach, head coach of the Lo's Coaching online 1-on-1 coaching service, and co-founder of the running analytics service RunningQuotient. He has coached since 2016 and has worked with more than 100 athletes one-on-one, helping over 20 of them qualify for the IRONMAN World Championship and guiding 3 athletes under 9:00 over the full distance (226 km), plus several under 4:30 at 113 km. He is an IRONMAN® Certified Coach and one of the first coaches in the Asia-Pacific region to earn the STRYD Run with Power Level 2 certification.
I have always believed that effective training rests on sports science, data analysis and individual planning. Talent and luck alone will not take you far. Your goal may be a KONA World Championship qualification, a new personal best, or a safe finish at your first triathlon; with a precise training prescription and systematic planning, I can help you get there more efficiently.
With a family and a business to run, I know exactly what “not enough time” feels like. On weekdays I train in the gap after dropping the kids at school, and one or two hours in a day is already a luxury. Because there is no spare time to waste on workouts that do nothing, I insist that every plan has a reason behind it: how the intensity zones were set, why this interval session sits on this particular day, and how much accumulated fatigue means it is time to back off. All of it can be explained.
I coach and race at the same time, and while juggling work and family I keep breaking my own records and standing on podiums. Everything I have picked up along the way becomes your shortcut: the most efficient way to get the most out of the limited training time you have.
After years of working with athletes, the most successful endurance athletes I have seen are usually the ones who find a balance between work, family and their own ambitions. So my job goes beyond writing the plan. It is to keep you improving within the time you actually have, so that when you stand on the start line and cross the finish, everything that matters most in your life is still there.
My dream is to coach a Chinese endurance athlete to the very top in my lifetime, onto an Olympic or World Championship podium.
Since I started coaching in 2016, this science-based approach has produced these results.
Li Pengcheng (李鵬程), the Chinese athlete I have coached for years, keeps raising the bar.
Interviews about training, racing and the work of coaching. All three are in Chinese.
How the 2026 Challenge Taiwan 226 km race went, finishing 2nd overall in 9:15:17, what the daily work of a triathlon coach looks like, and how Chinese and Taiwanese triathletes differ from a coach's point of view.
Host Zhao Xinping and I talk about moving from Macau to Taiwan, going from a high-school student who liked running to a running and triathlon coach, and from a sociology major to co-founder of the running analytics tool RunningQuotient. We also talk about how writing helped me really absorb what I had learned.
The path from a sociology degree to full-time triathlon coaching, what led to becoming the best-known triathlon coach in China, and the training behind winning Zwift races again and again.
IRONMAN and 70.3 are among the toughest endurance races there are. I build a course plan and a power strategy for the specific race you are travelling to: handling the local climate, race-simulation sessions beforehand, and precise bike and run pacing. That takes most of the uncertainty out of racing away from home, so on race day you can put your attention on the race itself.
I have studied and coached running power since 2016 and was among the first coaches in the Asia-Pacific region to earn STRYD Level 2 certification. The athlete who finished 2019 KONA in 9:01:29 trained with a power meter; by spending his energy sensibly on the day he ran a 3:05 marathon and moved from 21st to 5th in his age group, becoming the first Chinese athlete on an IRONMAN World Championship podium.
Coaching and racing go together: I keep testing the training system in my own races.
Start with the application form. I read every one myself and will talk with you about where you are now and what you are aiming at. Once we agree on the direction, we begin.