Originally Posted by
pjcampbell
I doubt I can do 2 hours then!!! In my head, I can't think of doing a 40km tt in more than 1 hour, but I am not in the mindset of thinking of this as 1 big event but individual events which clearly will not work.
I looked, and all of the upcoming tris, all distances, are sold out. This will have to be a 2009 thing I think. I just am trying to figure out where to even begin thinking about all of this!!!
You're absolutely right about having to think of it as one big event. That's part of the challenge. You have to be able to save enough energy on the swim to do the bike, and then you have to save enough for the run. But you have to expend enough on all of them to do well. Just because you might be able to do all 3 separately doesn't mean you can put it all together.
2+ on
www.beginnertriathlete.com. They have a great forum and a lot of articles and training schedules to get you started.
www.trifind.com has a list of triathlons of all lengths around the US.