Beginner Advice

Beginner Triathlon Guide Your first triathlon should fit the swimmer, cyclist, and runner you are now. Distance matters, but so do the swim setting, course, travel, cost, and race rules. Image note: replace this placeholder with a wide race morning photo that shows the setting, water, and recreational athletes. Jump to Quick answer A local…

A triathlon is an endurance race with three parts: swim, bike, and run. The hard part for many beginners is not the individual sports, it’s the fact that the race is actually one sport: swim-bike-run, all at once. Athletes (like you, presumably) gravitate to this sport because of the challenge, because of the difficulity of…