your transition.Swimming hats are usually provided by race organisers but a spare is useful for training and for doubling up if the water is cold. Some people like to also use earplugs and nose clips.On Your BikeTriathlon's middle section offers
riding the shopping bike with the buckled wheels. How good could you be, you wonder, if you carried on training. Good enough to represent your country? If you're going to tri, you may as well try hard.One of the (many) great things about triathlon is its
. Compare some of the times at the Corus Disabled Triathlon Championships for 2008 and 2009, held over the usual sprint distance of 750m swim, 20K bike and 5K run: Tom Perkins (Tri 5 - see overleaf for the full British Triathlon classification system
hours; and the weekends are cold, damp and miserable. Your first triathlon of the year may be months away. All things considered, staying in bed with a mug of hot chocolate has much more appeal than a bone-numbing bike ride. After all, missing one little
