Reply to: Anyone done a Triathalon before?

[gingerjedi]

Poofs!

My mates misses did an Ironman a couple of years back, she said she was relieved to only have the marathon left after the painful 112 mile bike ride.

I reckon I could do the super sprint... in my own time!

[scooterscot]

I've done the 70 wild miles twice now, although it's usually a charity event not a competition as such

45 mile cycle from Glencoe
10 mile kayak up Loch etive
15 mile run back from the shore line to Glencoe

It's actually good fun, people are amazing and nothing can match the feeling you get once you cross the finish line.

Risks: I got knocked off my bike once by a tourist bus on the A82

Sign up here: 70 Wild Miles

[mudskipper]

Have to say I quite fancy the idea. One of the short ones.

Saw this one - not sure about it being a 'fun' distance though - I'd prefer it to be called something a bit less trivial!

[d000hg]

Maybe changing the bracelet could me my role. Or holding the towel.

[SueEllen]

I reckon I'd love a triathlon if it wasn't for the running and swimming. Oh, and I don't own a bike.

You can do team ones where you only have to do one thing.

The most difficult part in them is changing over the ankle bracelet.

[d000hg]

I reckon I'd love a triathlon if it wasn't for the running and swimming. Oh, and I don't own a bike.

[shaunbhoy]

I play squash twice a week at a high level and tennis/golf at the weekends.

Wonder if sg has been having a "workout" this weekend?
Makes you laugh really, just how he can even lift a Tennis racket with his physique. Built like a Sudanese Locust!
I can't think of him without getting a vision of the bastard lovechild of Mr Muscle and an East African Famine Charity's Poster Child.

[MarillionFan]

I once did a Decathalon. Did the 100M in 6.5 seconds and 24 metres on the long jump.

Had to give it up when I hurt my fingertips.

[Mich the Tester]

I might consider it if it really was a 'sprint' as in 50m swim, 500 metre bike ride and 100m run.

[MarillionFan]

sasguru,
not all of us needed notes from mummy excusing us PE at school you know.
Some of us ex-military types have eaten marathons and half-marathons in our time, and scoffed a whole range of spuds at a very decent level. Certainly the type of activity that would have had you reaching frantically for your inhalers and/or mummy's hand.
You know the sort of thing, Kebabs, Burgers, Pizza, Icecream, etc.
That generally allows us the luxury of knowing what we are talking about. We don't all need to resort to constang tugging in our garden shed to maintain fitness, but I do.

ftfy

[shaunbhoy]

Listen gramps, I play squash twice a week at a high level and tennis/golf at the weekends.

Just because the courts are upstairs, doesn't make it a "high level". Special Needs Squash is still Special Needs Squash.

And Golf...........yes that really gets the old heart and lungs pumping.

That's presumably why I'm not a lardy git

No. The reason you are still a weedy pigeon is because you are

a) Too miserable to put weight on and
b) Too scrawny a little weed to ever fully develop. The runt of the litter in more ways than one sas.

That explains why you had to get rid of the Hyabusa. It was too heavy for you to get it off the stand.

[b0redom]

Yes. I did the Thames Turbo sprint one earlier this year. To be honest if you're reasonably fit you should be easily able to do it. My swimming is pretty awful, and I was worried about needing to alternate between crawl and breast stroke, but there were loads of people doing breast stroke.

I was reasonably fit, last year I commuted 14 miles or so each way to work on my bike, but following a car accident I didn't do much of anything until about a month before the event. There were still loads of people finishing after me though.

Best way to do it is just have a go. Head down to the pool, time yourself in the water, then time yourself on a bike and run all back to back.

[DaveB]

I've done a few in the last 5 or six years, mostly I stick to cycling though.

When it comes down to it most Triathlons are decided on the run.

The swim may only be short, but if you are going for it it's still a bloody hard effort to swim strongly for 5-10 minutes, especially as most of the effort will come from your arms so you can save your legs for the bike and run.

The bike stage is basically about not having a mechanical on the way and maintaining your pace, go too hard on the bike stage and you'll have nothing left for the run.

The run is where it all gets decided, you have to be a lot better at swimming and biking to beat a good runner in a triathlon, especially in a sprint where you wont get the chance to build much of a lead.

If you are going to train for one part then train for the transition from bike to running, that is where it will hurt.

[sasguru]

sasguru,
not all of us needed notes from mummy excusing us PE at school you know.
Some of us ex-military types have run marathons and half-marathons in our time, and played a whole range of sports at a very decent level. Certainly the type of activity that would have had you reaching frantically for your inhalers and/or mummy's hand.
You know the sort of thing, Golf, Football, Swimming, Tennis, etc.
That generally allows us the luxury of knowing what we are talking about. We don't all need to resort to constang tugging in our garden shed to maintain fitness.

Listen gramps, I play squash twice a week at a high level and tennis/golf at the weekends.
That's presumably why I'm not a lardy git like yourself and have the stamina and strength of a much younger man.
I don't suggest you start anything too intense on your heart and lungs, like squash, now though. You'd almost certainly have a cardiac arrest.

[shaunbhoy]

I've heard it all now. The doddery old fart who who wheezes after a little light gardening presumes to offer advice to us young and fit 'uns.
Listen grandad, you stick to your daily airing in the garden, try not to kill youself hogging the middle lane at 50 mph on the motorway, and polish your zimmer frame to impress the grannies.

sasguru,
not all of us needed notes from mummy excusing us PE at school you know.
Some of us ex-military types have run marathons and half-marathons in our time, and played a whole range of sports at a very decent level. Certainly the type of activity that would have had you reaching frantically for your inhalers and/or mummy's hand.
You know the sort of thing, Golf, Football, Swimming, Tennis, etc.
That generally allows us the luxury of knowing what we are talking about. We don't all need to resort to constang tugging in our garden shed to maintain fitness.