Just completed my first sprint triathalon

[RyanReese09]

in 1 hour 37 minutes.

woulda been hell of alot better had i not taken 10 minutes to transition from swimming to biking (my mother took my shirt by accident :fp:fp and i forgot you dont need one to bike (since theres one on ur bike already)
and then 3 minutes from biking to running (just fail there) :fp

1st place in my age group

ps-it was the delaware diamond triathalon
.6 swimming, 17? biking, and 2 running

have any of you done triathalons? times?

 

[oprah62]

not bad man,

 

[ianini]

Great job! Do you know what your splits are?

 

[RyanReese09]

Great job! Do you know what your splits are?

i have no idea, the running was horrible until halfway through i finally got some gaterade and i trucked the end

apparently i was like the 18th or so outa the water (swimmings terrible for me, i regained alot of ground on the bike)

i didnt have a watch on me so i don't know hte splits. i could give a rough estimate of what it felt like but thats all

im pretty sure the 2 miles were like 15 minutes :fp

 

[TheMachanga]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

 

[RyanReese09]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

 

[TheMachanga]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

The secret is to wear track shoes (spikes) when running on grass. (They've also very very light). Don't use them to practice though.

 

[cmhardw]

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

Fixed. Good job on the triathlon man!

Chris

 

[ianini]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

The secret is to wear track shoes (spikes) when running on grass. (They've also very very light). Don't use them to practice though.

I thought you have to wear flats when racing in cross country? Spikes are illegal in our division.

 

[guusrs]

In 1982 - 1984 I did some 1/5 triathlons student championships
(800m swimming, 36km bike , 8,4km run)
Times? Between 1h40 and 1h45
Gus

 

[Joker]

Good job.
I'm not a long distance runner (best sprint event is the 150m) but for swimming and biking I'm long distance. Nice job

 

[Anthony]

I competed in a triathlon two years ago thinking I was in pretty good shape...
Never again.

Back then my mile time was already sub 5, but after swimming and biking, I'm sure my running pace was somewhere in the range of 12-15 minute miles at the end. lolol.

I gained a newfound respect for tri-athletes that day..

 

[TheMachanga]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

The secret is to wear track shoes (spikes) when running on grass. (They've also very very light). Don't use them to practice though.

I thought you have to wear flats when racing in cross country? Spikes are illegal in our division.

We run on grass for most meets, and it's high school meets.

 

[JeffDelucia]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

The secret is to wear track shoes (spikes) when running on grass. (They've also very very light). Don't use them to practice though.

I thought you have to wear flats when racing in cross country? Spikes are illegal in our division.

We run on grass for most meets, and it's high school meets.

We can use spikes here in Vermont. I don't think they are allowed in middle school though. Also be careful because there is a difference between track spikes and XC spikes.

 

[AvGalen]

When I was young (15-18) I was a good swimmer and runner but hated biking. I tried 1/8 (0.6, 20, 5 km) and needed about 10, 50, 20 if I remember correctly. I never bothered with any changing, just jumped on my bike in my swimming trunks (after putting on socks and shoes) and of the bike to start running

I hated biking so much that I never trained before, or did it again after

 

[TheMachanga]

I've only done cross country. I'm a beginner (freshman in high school). My 2 mile time pb is 12:02.xx. However I have a 3 mile race coming up.

i just realized i spelled the title wrong..its "sprint" not "spring" lol :-/

and nb, my personal best 3 mile time is 20:23 or something. just got it a few days ago

The secret is to wear track shoes (spikes) when running on grass. (They've also very very light). Don't use them to practice though.

I thought you have to wear flats when racing in cross country? Spikes are illegal in our division.

We run on grass for most meets, and it's high school meets.

We can use spikes here in Vermont. I don't think they are allowed in middle school though. Also be careful because there is a difference between track spikes and XC spikes.

I use track spikes XD

 

[freshcuber]

How hard is it to train for triathlon sprints? I could easily do the swim portion of an Iron Man. My swim practices are usually double what it is. I'm a good runner and played soccer up until this year where I decided to focus on swimming. My mile times isn't that of a runners it's like 5:45 I think but I can hold a solid pace.(That's what made me decent at soccer. I had no foot skills but I could play hard for the full 90 minutes and then overtime if i had to.) But I have very little experience racing on a bike. This would probably be the biggest challenge for me.

I can't devote a ton of time to training. The swimming won't be an issue but I do swim so much that I wouldn't have a lot of time to use for biking.

 

[RyanReese09]

Swim 0.6 Mile 0:26:21
T1 0:05:51 (this transition is swimming to biking :fp )
Bike 16 Mile 0:54:48
T2 0:02:50 (biking to running)
Run 2 Mile 0:17:12