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I started swimming again mid-January. My gym is holding an indoor triathlon in April. It's manageable for me. 10 minutes of swimming (lap pool), 10 minute transition, 30 minutes of biking (exercise bike), 5 minute transition, and 20 minutes of running (treadmill). You get points based on each leg of the race, ranked by distance.
I started biking last week. Yesterday, I ran on a treadmill for the first time in my life, and I biked as well. Today, I got running shoes at a place that specializes in running, and based only on fit, and then swam and ran on the treadmill.
The funny thing with the triathlon is that, if the results at other locations, where they held the indoor triathlon earlier are any indication, I will win the swimming, be in the middle of the pack for biking, and be near the bottom at running.
I'm quite excited! I've been wanting to attempt sprint triathlons for years now, and this is a good way to ease myself in. Based on the distances I am likely to reach in the allotted time, this should fall between a sprint triathlon (750m swim, 12.4mi bike, 3.1mi run) and a super-sprint triathlon (400m swim, 6.2mi bike, 1.5mi run). And it has the added benefit of ending after an hour and fifteen minutes, even if I can only walk by the end.
So I'm all signed up. And once I'm done, I'll have to find one of the distance-based triathlons to do. Hopefully, though, I can find one where the swim leg is done in a pool (with staggered start times). I'm really not a fan of open water swimming. I like my good ol' back-and-forth lap swimming. Nah, I love it!
I started biking last week. Yesterday, I ran on a treadmill for the first time in my life, and I biked as well. Today, I got running shoes at a place that specializes in running, and based only on fit, and then swam and ran on the treadmill.
The funny thing with the triathlon is that, if the results at other locations, where they held the indoor triathlon earlier are any indication, I will win the swimming, be in the middle of the pack for biking, and be near the bottom at running.
I'm quite excited! I've been wanting to attempt sprint triathlons for years now, and this is a good way to ease myself in. Based on the distances I am likely to reach in the allotted time, this should fall between a sprint triathlon (750m swim, 12.4mi bike, 3.1mi run) and a super-sprint triathlon (400m swim, 6.2mi bike, 1.5mi run). And it has the added benefit of ending after an hour and fifteen minutes, even if I can only walk by the end.
So I'm all signed up. And once I'm done, I'll have to find one of the distance-based triathlons to do. Hopefully, though, I can find one where the swim leg is done in a pool (with staggered start times). I'm really not a fan of open water swimming. I like my good ol' back-and-forth lap swimming. Nah, I love it!