Subject: RE: marine newbieHi Ryan! Welcome and thanks for posting. Congrats on signing up for your first tri and good luck training. There's some good training plans here and on trinewbies.com ... they are all for more than 4 weeks, but you could just do one of the one-month blocks on there (or the last month) provided you have a good fitness base to begin with, which, as a Marine, you hopefully do ![](https://beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/images/emoticons/smile.gif) Any bike will do for your first triathlon. A road bike will be easier, but lots of people do their first tri on a mountain bike (maybe have road tires put on it). So beg/borrow/steal one rather than buy might be a good idea, if it fits you okay and you're comfortable on it. |