Any Triathletes?

Congrats on the weight loss! You're going to love the tri - they're addicting. Did my first sprint 2 years ago. Been training for my first Oly on Sunday.

I have heard about duathons. I have also thought about trying one of those too. Swimming is not a strong suite for me.

I've never done a du either, only tri's. And my last one, the swimming just wasn't the challenge in a good way it used to be. Always slow at it anyway, but several from the 2nd wave passed me, and 2nd to last in my wave, thinking not worth it.

If you do tri and aren't feeling confident, confirm you can do for sprint distance 2 x the distance at race pace without issue. I've only done Long or International or Half, so I went for theory of doing 1.5 x the time at least during training. So slower, but knowing I could do more than expected time during event makes for confidence.

As long as that confidence doesn't have you burn yourself out on say bike when run is your strong discipline.

I did an try-tri last year (was 20 lbs lighter than now) and it was the scariest thing I every signed up for lol (I'm not a competitor) but before you freak out, there were people of all different shapes and sizes (weight and amputees) and everyone is there to do their personal best, and my experience was full of support from the crowd and my competitors (except in the water- someone was swmining on top of me for a bit). It's a really good experience. I would suggest start out training on each swimming, biking and running and work on your best consistent pace. Then build up to completing 2 tasks in the same day, and then three. If you're lucky enough to have a gym with all three you're set.

Also- transitions getting changed (if you are) is something to practice too. practice changing from being wet to getting your shoes on etc

Yay! I'm a new triathlete. I've been looking for some folks who are doing swim/bike/run training. In the last 9ish months I've done 1 super sprint, 3 sprints, 3 adventure races that are mostly running/trekking/biking with a some water sloshing, and a couple duathlons. I attempted an Xterra, but I missed the cut off to do the run portion by the hair of my chinny chin chin. THAT is my race that I'm training for. I'm going to kill it next time. Have not gotten over not finishing that one. It's my motivation for everything I've done since then! Also would like to do my first Olympic sized one in November.

Congratulations on the weight loss, BTW. That's awesome! I'd definitely be popping in on any tri related thread.

Hi there!

I am also doing my first triathlon (sprint distance) on August 4th. I've been running/biking since March and began to do swim training at the beginning of July. The swim portion is what has me most worried as well. I started taking OWS classes yesterday to help me feel more confident in the water.

Good luck!

Yes I have access to OWS for lessons. Both where the race will be as well as 2 other lakes.

Hi there!

I am also doing my first triathlon (sprint distance) on August 4th. I've been running/biking since March and began to do swim training at the beginning of July. The swim portion is what has me most worried as well. I started taking OWS classes yesterday to help me feel more confident in the water.

Good luck!

So do the classes give you access to a lake or something? That's nice idea. Here, they opened the lake 2 weeks prior for 2 days a week for about 1.5 hrs for practice swimming. Not the actual course, but they had buoys and you could do laps.

Sadly all the lifeguards said it was 250m loop, actually was 200m. Very great thinking you are faster than you are.

Reading this post sounded very familiar so I looked at your profile. We're neighbors!