funny you should say that, did my last triathlon on sunday and haven't worked out since... i can definitely feeling my body screaming at me
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Wow a triathlon! Hell I don’t think I could ever do that. Mind you I never tried!
How was that? Lot of training involved? How did you place (I have no clue on what timing is like).
And congrats!
Last as in most recent or as in the final one you plan on doing? What length?
Try a tri is really short. Most people should be able to complete with little issue. Dont bother trying to keep up, go at you own pace, frontrunners will be literally flying.
375m swim
10km bike
2.5km run
@mimico_polak
i did 2 before covid
and now just did 2 on sep 12 and then 19.
I've been doing 2 distances so far
Olympic triathlon (1500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run) which takes over 3 hours at my low level
Sprint triathlon (750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run) which takes about 1.5 hours at my low level
I'm not very competitive i just want to improve year over year tbh
I'm eyeing the half ironman distance though for next year (1900m swim, 90km bike, 21km run)
My problem is i'm not training as consistently as i should. If you haven't done any of the 3 sports, the swim is the hardest to get good at as it's very technique oriented. If you'd told me 5 years ago i'd do triathlon i would've laughed at you. Heck when i first got my motorcycle i would've laughed at you if you told me i'd be biking thousands of km yearly on a bicycle. I just need goals to keep working out otherwise i get lazy
@GreyGhost
my last one for the year/most recent.
and yes the people on their tri bikes in aero position the whole time will record crazy times. honestly it's fun, it's a challenge..i can see my growth and it keeps me further away from becoming Obese (see, getting back to the main subject of the thread)
@Wingboy
those are (used to be) the world championships, they're not joke! very scary stuff
i did 2 before covid
and now just did 2 on sep 12 and then 19.
I've been doing 2 distances so far
Olympic triathlon (1500m swim, 40km bike, 10km run) which takes over 3 hours at my low level
Sprint triathlon (750m swim, 20km bike, 5km run) which takes about 1.5 hours at my low level
I'm not very competitive i just want to improve year over year tbh
I'm eyeing the half ironman distance though for next year (1900m swim, 90km bike, 21km run)
My problem is i'm not training as consistently as i should. If you haven't done any of the 3 sports, the swim is the hardest to get good at as it's very technique oriented. If you'd told me 5 years ago i'd do triathlon i would've laughed at you. Heck when i first got my motorcycle i would've laughed at you if you told me i'd be biking thousands of km yearly on a bicycle. I just need goals to keep working out otherwise i get lazy
@GreyGhost
my last one for the year/most recent.
and yes the people on their tri bikes in aero position the whole time will record crazy times. honestly it's fun, it's a challenge..i can see my growth and it keeps me further away from becoming Obese (see, getting back to the main subject of the thread)
@Wingboy
those are (used to be) the world championships, they're not joke! very scary stuff
What were the distances used in the Hawaii Ironman?
3.9k swim, 180.2k bike, 42.2k run. Ugh.
Kona is like the Boston Marathon. You need to participate in qualifying events and hit the qualifying time to ensure you are worthy/limit number of entrants/minimize dying in Hawaii.
i remember when those were only shown on "Wide World of Sports" about 6 weeks after they ran. Crazy distances in that heat, and they didn't know about constant feeding and hydration. They were dropping out like flies and the winners were almost hospitalized after the race.
The heat and elevation changes would be a challenge by themselves. His family was frightened for him. They have taken him far tho. Jeff Beech is with the univ out here now.
Yeah, definitely not an average athlete.
"A past winner of The Refridgeater 8 km, Oktoberfest 10km, Waterloo half Marathon and Waterloo Marathon, Jeff's greatest athletic achievements came as a professional Triathlete training and racing all over the world for 15 years and competing in the Hawaiian Ironman 4 times, twice as a professional."
Oh it's bad... sometimes it's hot like a sauna because of the humidity and then swimming in saltwater isn't as pleasant... then on the volcanos you could get winds that are real ****** for the bike, etc etc etc
So that's the full ironman distance, which is ultimately my goal in my early 40s...i just want to get a few half-irons under my belt before going for that. It also requires an enormous amount of training which i won't make my family go through with kids this young right now.
And each one is very different based on type of open water swim, quality of pavement, elevation changes / overall gain and exposure to the elements. It must be completed in 17 hours and races often start around 7am and finish by midnight.
A few years ago my wife wanted to do another Ironman, so she signed up for one in Florida - in Pensacola. She had previously done Lake Placid and Mont Tremblant - each in around 14hrs, and these are pretty hilly courses. She isn't fast, but she is very consistent with her pacing and she's mentally strong.
For Pensacola she didn't have the same amount of time to invest in training and this was just supposed to be fun goal to achieve. Pensacola is a pretty easy course with minimal elevation gain and a simple swim in a protected bay of the Gulf of Mexico. About 1-2 months before the event Pensacola got hit with a bad hurricane which damaged massive parts of the town and course route. The event was on the brink of being cancelled. At the last minute they moved it to Haines City, which is between Tampa and Orlando. This was a big change, because it's a hilly part of Florida (I didn't know that was possible) and now she was no longer doing an open water swim in the Gulf of Mexico, but swimming in a lake that has alligators in it
Two nights before her event we decide to go out to a nice Thai restaurant. She gets food poisoning and is barfing all night and bedridden the next day. She decides to attempt the Ironman anyways even though she has zero stored food reserves from her sickness. She does the swim at a pretty decent pace - something like 1:30 for the 3.8km despite the alligators freaking her out. Her transition on to the bike was the slowest I've ever seen - something like 23 minutes, when normally she's around 7-10 minutes. She gets on the bike and the wind was really strong and hills were not at all something she trained for. They ended up pulling her off the course about 1km from the last time marker, which is 150km into the bike ride. It was pretty heartbreaking to see her get pulled off so late in the event, but at the same time awesome to see how hard she tried despite so much going against her.
As a spectator, one of the coolest things about going to these events is staying there all day and cheering the people coming in at the 15, 16, 17 hour marks. I've seen people come running in at 16 hours wearing t-shirts that said they used to weigh 300lbs and this was their first Ironman and so on. Or cancer survivors, war amputees and other trials and tribulations of life. Really inspiring stuff.
She treats many clients who are elite triathletes and compete at Kona or other world championships. Many of them are in their 50's, 60's and 70's and are great motivation for people younger to see how taking good care of our health and being active, yield major benefits later in life.
Dirty Frank
Well-known member
Check out the part about diminishing returns and negative longevity perhaps walking without exercising you upper body is a poor strategy.
To pump us up!
I like Sprockets better.
Congrats man!! I know you've been working out a ton.
I have Spartan Beast coming up end of October and my right shoulder is ****** up from doing too many burpees during COVID lol...
...I will fully tear this ******* shoulder during the race if I have to to finish it.
Yup. This would be common sense though for people regularly walking 7k steps as there's some aptitude or interest for fitness then. E.g. doing the same workout results in a plateau and eventually degradation.
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