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) and I'm starting to be seduced by the idea of a triathlon. I can swim 1500m in an hour and do the London-Brighton ride each year, so have a bit of experience in the three disciplines. But I need to know on the bike/swim side what kit I would need, how

’ve somehow found myself signing up for the Bala Middle Distance Triathlon in June."Jo’s give-it-a-go attitude – as well as her happy-go-lucky sense of humour – was evident from the moment she hopped on the forums, and got herself along to one of the newly

back into it full time and glad of the break. The break has helped my mind and motivation as well as my body, because I'm far more keen to run now than I was a month after London. In fact I've just taken up triathlon. – BowiPodGetting straight back

on treadmills, not of cyclists. No one can say exactly how the two differ, but they do. The triathlon legend Mark Allen has lived in those narrow spaces. Allen is the fastest runner ever to win six Hawaii Ironman Triathlons. In 1989, he closed with a 2

of supportive underwear and pads! I raced about three months after giving birth, and with my second baby I did the London marathon six months after he was born and achieved a personal best. Having a baby certainly makes you more motivated. Good luck and don

at the Serpentine Running Club in London. "But it can take up to a minute for your cardiovascular system to work at its maximum capacity – so if you run intervals of 400 metres or less, you will not accumulate much time in the optimal intensity range."BREAK IT: Rack

your running performance. Cross-training has slowly crept into runners' lives over the last two decades. First we started doing it to stay in shape while sidelined with running injuries, or maybe to try a triathlon. Now we do it even when we

wouldn't do a 25-30 mile run every weekend and feel fine the next day. – debboYou can't compare them except in terms of general exercise in a given HR zone for a certain time. You can't say "OK I have done 50 miles of cycling so that gives me 'x' miles