Triathlon - Training

Wow, that is a pretty big list of people. It would be awesome to see you all particpate in the Mooseman in 2008. That would be quite a reunion. If you are serious and at this point we all are serious, about a triathlon, I have a couple sites for you.

http://www.trinewbies.com/ This site contains some great training programs.

http://www.trifind.com/ You click the state on the left hand column and see what races are in your state of choice. Also, they archive past events, so you can check out some results from past years.

Just a note about triathlons and specifaclly the Mooseman. There are essentially four distances in a triathlons

A. IronMan - The truly Insane - 3.8km (2.4Miles) SWIM, 180KM (112 miles BIKE), and 42.195kM (26.2 miles) RUN. - THEY CUT YOU OFF AT 16 HOURS (Best athletes just over eight hours)
B. Half IronMan - Yea your still somewhat Insane - 1.2 miles Swim, 56 miles bike, and 13.1 miles - They cut off at 8 hours. (Best guys just over four hours)
C. International Distance - Now your just a little crazy - .93 mile swim, 27.25 miles bike, and 6.2 miles run - They usually cut you off at 5 hours. (Best usualy 2 hours, you seeing the pattern)
D. Sprint Distance - A little suffering you can finish - .5 mile swim, 12.4 miles bike and 3.1 miles run - usually no cut off, 2.5 hours is about the slowest time. (Best Around an hour)

Alright now that you know this, the Mooseman has two distances - International on a Saturday and Half IronMan on the Sunday.

I am telling you all this because my intention is to do the International distance, if you look at the training schedule from Tri-newbie above, you will realize training time wise that will push you. By all means the Mooseman looks like a weekend festival and I would hang around to see someone do the Half the next day.