Triathlon Training Tips
Summer is quickly approaching, and with warmer weather comes triathlon season. Originally reserved for uber-toned fitness fanatics wearing obnoxiously-colorful spandex, triathlons are now accessible to anyone and provide good motivation to get into full body shape. Even Lance Armstrong has switched from cycling to triathlon!
Contrary to popular belief, a triathlon is not necessarily the long, tortuous Hawaii Ironman event broadcast on NBC each year. Instead, a triathlon can be any event that involves the three sports ofswimming, cycling, and running (although occasionally, in a winter triathlon, the sport of swimming will be substituted with cross country skiing).
So unless you have aspirations to do an Ironman, you don’t need to swim 2.4 miles, bicycle 112 miles and run 26.2 miles to do a triathlon. That’s just one kind of triathlon — called an “Iron distance.” In addition to the Ironman, the three other most common triathlon distances are:
- Sprint distance: a 500 meter swim, 10-15 mile bike ride (~20K), and 2-3 mile run (~4-5K)
- Olympic distance: a 1500 meter swim, 26 mile bike ride (~40K), and 6.2 mile run (~10K)
- Half Ironman: half of an Iron distance
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