I'm a total beginner and need some advice.....please

Here I am, a year after you Mick, trawling this website, just like you probably did, looking for help and advice. I certainly hope that you completed your first Tri without too much upset and pain. I am totally new to this sport, have mainly been a runner (on and off), have just ridden a bike for the first time in 15 years and am just starting to swim laps again, the last time being when I was about 10. So I certainly hope you completed it, knowing that there was another beginner out there who has completed one does give be a strange sense of confidence. It would be good to hear how you did.

My first Tri I think is going to be in just 6 weeks time, the Braintree Triathlon, here in my town of Halstead. Here's hoping I get some motivation and grow some willpower.

Good luck Roybird, I am just looking around with the view to sign up for an Olympic in Sept. I might do a sprint in between now and then to practice.

It looks like a good sport though!!  With as much challenge as anyone could hope for.

I have done a marathon with 5 weeks training, so make the training good for you and just get through it.  Although the better the training the more enjoyable experience will be!!  Hence going to try 5 months training for triathlon.

Hope you do it, let me know how its going

Just found out that the Braintree Tri is totally full and there's a waiting list, although there is another sprint nearby in September. In all honesty I reckon that'll be better so I can get some real training in. I'll still keep an eye out though.

A marathon with only 5 weeks training, I am impressed yet also know that you must have had a pretty good level of fitness prior to doing it. Good luck with your Olympic distance and yes... do keep in touch, keep each other going.

You could enter the Clacton Olympic in September. Its a sea swim (with the tide) and a flat bike and run so a good first Oly. I am entered myself.

Pash