New to Austin

Hi KT, welcome to Austin soon. Great place to live and train. That said, I couldn't even begin to cover all your options to your question. Where will you be living? That could help narrow it down. Are you looking for free groups or paid? Fun, social groups, or more serious stuff?

There are run groups all over town that train every day of the week. Same with the bike. Swimming is a little more narrow, but still plenty of places. Not sure about Master's groups but I am sure someone else could chime in on that. Nitro seems to be popular.

Hi, Welcome to Austin, I live here as well. For group rides Jack and Adams, one of the better Tri shops, does good routes from their shop downtown every Sunday. Really good group of people. Swimming, I used to swim with T3 tri group. I don't think it's really a masters group, but they are a pretty hardcore group of people of all levels that swim with Mo the owner/coach at a couple different locations. An Olympian swimmer trained with our group pretty often. Running groups include Rogue, Gilbert's Gazelles and Austin Fit, Rogue being the most hardcore, imho.
Jack and Adams, with High Five events put on most of the tri events around town. They do a great job. Have fun !

Welcome to Austin. Depending on where you live. But all the Bike shops have great rides. I prefer Mellow Johnnys downtown. But Jack and Adams, Bicycle Sports Shop, Southwest Cycle all have good rides. Many many choices. Pure Austin, and a place up north have swimming and running. Rogue, Gilberts Gazzeles and many more. Steiner Ranch has a good Sunday morning ride from the ice cream shop. You can run downdown on the trails around the lake. I swim at Zillker and Deep Eddy when it is warm. Westlake has a swim club, Nitro, and some of the larger health clubs have pools. You will like Austin a great place to live.

Northwest Family Y has a masters team that meets 6-7am or noon-1pm MWF and 7am on Saturdays (endurance day). I believe the East Y also has masters, and many of the other Y of Austin locations might as well.

Welcome to TX!

Casey Arendt

welcome!
I am a member of Lifetime Fitness south and they have a good masters swim program that I have done before. I also really like their cycling instructors for spin. I have trained with Rogue Running before for my first half marathon and they are a really fun group. They have groups for every level of runner too so I wouldn't say its "hardcore" as in super elitist or anything like that.I took a swim clinic from T3 when I first started Tri-ing and I learned a ton. I have heard their actual training programs are pretty hardcore but have never participated. Everyone is right on this thread. Jack and Adam's tri shop is THE BEST with regards to south Austin tri shops. They are so friendly and really go the extra mile to help you out so you keep coming back. Last time I was in there, Jack chatted with me for about 30 minutes and I picked his brain about my first HIM distance. They are great people and put on great events! For women's only training groups, Jack recommended Tough Cookies and Tri Zones.