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2005-09-02 9:07 AM


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Subject: New to triathlon and want to race soon
I am new to triathlon and my strength is really mountain biking. I have yet to do a triathlon but have been training on my own for about 1 week. Cycling and running are a bit more natural for me and I don´t feel necessarily deficient in either. I come from the beach in Southern California and have always swam for sports but never for exercise and never efficiently. I can do it but slowly, badly and am the weakest obviously here. I want to do an Olympic triathlon on the 8th of October and am in general good shape but I wonder if I am cutting the training time too short. I´ve been mountain biking 1 1/2 hours every other day for the past year on average and think I´m up the to 40k there and alone I can run the 10k in a little more than an hour without pushing it too much. The most I have ever swam though is only 750m at once. I think I can do it. What do you think? Hopefully I´m not out of my mind...


2005-09-02 9:08 AM
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Subject: RE: New to triathlon and want to race soon
My initial goal really is just to finish so...
2005-09-02 10:10 AM
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Subject: RE: New to triathlon and want to race soon
Do a test. See if you can swim 1500 yards, preferably in open water. If you can, go for it.
2005-09-02 10:14 AM
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I hadn´t considered it but it makes a lot of sense. Thank you very much for that. I will try asap.
2005-09-03 2:27 AM
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Subject: RE: New to triathlon and want to race soon
Do some bike/run bricks (ride almost full distance and then run a few miles)...this will give a pretty good gauge of how you will feel.
2005-09-03 3:00 AM
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Thanks for this Storm. I'll do it today.


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