new to tri

welcome to Triathlons...  there is a group in the south jersey area (first year for the group), that are very very laid back group of people, who have many different levels of experience from people who haven't done and tris to people who have done Ironmans.  Here is the website, we are having a group meeting this Sunday 4/30/06 at Fleet Feet in Marlton (70&73) at 5pm you are more than welcome to come along and see if you like the club before you join.  Our website isn't great, we mostly use Yahoo groups to communicated to our members.  We often have group run/rides and even open water swim (lakes)

http://geocities.com/team_triumph_nj/

As far as the bike is concerned, i would suggested a road bike, there are all sorts of brands and price levels.  You need to figure out a price level and go from there.  The only place i know of in south jersey is D&Q on 70 and 295, but there is a new bike shop opening in a few weeks also on 70, in Cherry Hill, i think it's going to be called Keswick.  Right off the bat you don't need a road bike to do a triathlon, if you have a mntb bike you can use that.  Cause i wouldn't want you to buy a new bike to find out later you don't like triathlons. So i would wait until you know you want to comit to this sport.  That is my 2 cents.  If you have any questions drop me a line.

my name is john..... it seems that website is down this afternoon for some reason.   The website is free so we are only able to have a certain number of hits during the day.  We would love for you to join us for training and coming out on Sunday for our meeting. Our meeting is at 5pm on Sunday at Fleet Feet.  Looking forward to meeting you.  Please feel free to introduce yourself to me on Sunday.

Nice to meet you Mike.

We train almost every weekend.  During the week there are group runs out of a few local parks and Fleet Feet has 1 or 2.  We try to ride every Sat or Sunday, as the weather gets warmer we'll have some swim in some local lakes.  We like to keep active with the training.