Triathlons - do they float your boat?

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Retro_Bastard in reply to @Tallboy

Sounds like you enjoyed it though if your already planning training for more. Bricks are really important but the run off the bike has to be on either tired legs after a long bike or on legs full of lactic after a hard bike. Most of the bricks don't even have to be long just a couple of k off the bike at varying paces until the legs feel normal again plus one quality race specific brick a week. So many times I've led off the bike in tri and duathlons only to get caught on the run despite being a decent stand alone runner. Putting them together harder than most people realise but i come from a strong cycling background and have seen plenty of tasty runners dissappear up the road from the gun just to grind to a halt as soon as they start trying to put some power down on the bike.

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Tallboy in reply to @Retro_Bastard

Yeh definitely, already entered a tri in spring, probably do another duathlon just for some training in feb and might do Hathersage Hilly in summer with my wife. I’m a useless swimmer so this will always just be for fun and to fill gaps between local bike races!

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Retro_Bastard in reply to @Tallboy

Good luck with the training. I hate swimming too but have too because they're aren't enough big duathlons locally. Offroad duathlons are my favourite and the most fun but 2-3 a year isn't enough for me. I really enjoy the training but love the buzz of a big mass start race.