Where are your strengths and weaknesses?

Strength: Swim, former D1 College Swimmer

Close second strength: Bike, I just groove on the bike, really enjoy it and do well in my races in the bike segment 

Weakness: Run. I was on Cross Country in HS, but the run is the hardest for me. I am in a run focus right now

Weak swim because I have poor technique, and haven't yet located the resources to improve it.

Strong bike because it's what I like to do the most.

This is all relative, but my strongest leg is the swim and my weakest is the bike.

Reasons:

Swim - swimming is mostly technique. I have good technique as I was taught well at an early age, and though I never raced competitively, I swam a lot, so it all came back really easily. Plus, I'm just comfortable in the water - we spent every day, every summer of my childhood at the town pool, vacationed at the beach from the time I was 2, etc. I like the water. So I don't get the panics in the water that a lot of people experience. And since I'm confident in my abilities, that helps overall.

Bike - lack of experience and fear of hill descents. Hills slow me down. And lack of muscle power from not having lots of experience keeps me from sustaining high speeds for long periods of time, or even reaching high speeds in some cases.

Weakness= swim. I never learned how to swim properly as a kid, it was like starting from scratch. I struggled alone for 1.5 years and just started to get some group swimming/coaching last month. It already made a difference. i just had my best OWS ever in a race last weekend.

Strongest is run. I've always loved to run, this is my longest stretch of being uninjured and I've improved my run. Training for a marathon has helped

Strong cyclist...why? I like it...do I like it because I'm realtively good at it. Or do I just like it? I rode a lot as a kid and even went on a week bike trip riding 500 miles when I was 13 or 14. I think my genetics/muscle make up from being a competitive figure skater as a kids helps. If I don't ride I get cranky. If we move to another part of the country it will only be some place warmer than where I live so I can ride outside every day. I hope to ride for the rest of my life doing all sorts of fun adventures on my bikes.

Poor Swimmer  Why? As much as I try my technique is poor even after 4 winters of various lessons from 4 different coaches. It frustrates me to work and work at it and get no better other than being able to go longer.

I haven't been able to answer this question yet.  I seem to be relatively equal in all three.  Coming into tri with a 10 year running background I assumed running would be my strength.  Started swimming in Oct 2006 with some group lessons and picked up fairly good technique.  Started biking in March 2007.   In my first tri season (2007) I placed pretty evenly in all 3 disciplines in every race.

My feeling is that biking  will be my strength  and swimming will always be my weakness simply because the inconvenience of getting to the pool to train is a limiter. I'm only coming into my second season, after a few more years of consistent training I should be able to identify my true strength (and weakness).

Edit: I voted strong run/ weak bike only because I have lots of room for improvement on the bike and I have lots of running fitness and experience from years of running.

I'm a moderately strong swimmer and cyclist (love the open water), but I'm just total crap at running.  I'd never run a mile in my life before last June, and my legs have a lot of trouble staying injury-free.  I don't find it to be particularly pleasurable, either, so it's always a real challenge for me to improve!

Cycling: I'm weaker than I'd like to be because I just don't get out enough. 

Running: I suck at running. With each passing year I'm feeling it more, and carrying a few extra pounds around doesn't make it any easier. I feel like a very old man after an easy 10k.

Swimming: I do duathlons. Fooling around in the water with the kids when they were younger was fun; training and trying to improve saps every atom of fun out of it.   Swimming is for fish.

Why am I even here?

Strong Swimmer : Ex-National Level Competitor. Weak Runner : At 6’7” and 260 the run just kills me. 

I start out in the very front coming out of the water, I lose some ground to the better cyclists, and survive the run ( it's ugly but it gets done ). Getting better all the time though. Lots of great help here. Thanks all.

Strongest - Swimming

I swam in HS and college (DIII), so I have swimming ingrained into my bones.

Weakest - Running

I never really could run long distances, played lacrosse growing up so short sprints were all I had to focus on. Seeing solid gains in my runs over the past 3-4 months, started out running 8:15/mile and am down to 7:30/mile and falling. Also, increased my mileage from 2-3 miles to 5-6 miles per day 4x a week.

I'm not fast so I dont know if that makes me weak in all three, but my strength is going out the door to train when I don't want to