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hurtin - 2009-11-13 12:30 PM I can answer this as a runner pretending to do triathlons. Runners are cheap frugal. Ever seen the end of a road race with free stuff? Yogurt, fruit etc, all goes into the gym bag. Runners won't travel more than 20 miles to a non Marathon, because they want to save on gas. Equipment consists of...shoes, something we wear anyway. Coaches in the sport generally know this and do it because they love it, it is a part time for fun to coach a local club or the like. Triathletes on the other hand have more money than sense. Fly me and my 10k bike 1k wetsuit for a week half way arround the world to do a race, no problem. See a new training gadget, that costs 50% more because it has an IM logo on it? I must have it. Hire a coach for 300 month to tell me what I could learn by reading a 25$ book? Why not!