Any Triathletes around?

[BoRED S2upid]

My boss has recently taken this sport up and im wondering how hes doing.

1 mile swim in a lake in 35mins?. Hows that for an amature?. Im ok at swimming myself but couldn't tell you how long it would take me to do a mile in a lake.

[anonymous-user]

recently started competing in duathlons with a view to triathlons next year, a mile in open water in 35 minutes is pretty good, i am a shocking swimmer and will always look to make time back on the bike and running legs but a mile in open water would take me the best part of 50 minutes... duathlons are a good besting session and more to my strengths though, so any triathlons will be for fun(?!)

triathlon is a great sport for buying bling stuff though, the toys you can buy are so cool!

[335Diesel]

Did an off road Sprint tri (500m sea swim, 16km MTB race, 5km coast run) in May - my first triathlon. Also done a few 10k trail races (running).

No idea how but managed to win the triathlon - my first gold medal!
Usually get 5th-10th in my running races. Best so far - 5/700 (charity race) and 5/120 (this was a much tougher race with lots of club runners).

Thought about doing more but no committed yet.

[Randy Winkman]

I did my 1st triathlon for 12 years yesterday. Just a short one with a swimming pool swim (in Sevenoaks). In 1996 I did an "Ironman" distance race (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile cycle and a marathon)in 11 hours and 18 mins.

35 mins for a mile is pretty good. It certainly makes him a pretty sound swimmer. The best triathlon swimmers would probably take around 20 mins for that distance.

[335Diesel]

Ironmans = much pain