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Total novice here.  I've only bricked once, so have no concept of how my body might react to doing the 3 sports in a row, and what it will add to my times in each individual sport.  Trying to anticipate what my times might be in my races so I can have a goal to work toward.

QUESTION:  My race is 0.24 mile swim, 6 mile bike, 1.5 mile run.  Let's say, ok, I can run a 9 min mile, so 1.5 miles = ~14 mins.  How much time should I add to that, given how tired I might be after the swim and bike?  I figure the bike I can do in 22 mins; it's a flat course--how much time do I add to my estimated ride, given the swim?  I have no idea of my estimated speed on the swim, heading over to the pool today to check it out.

I know there are no precise answers, but I'm wondering if someone can tell me relative percentages of time to add.

Thanks!

Good swimmer, really good rider, crappy runner.

Someone in another forum shared this with me, and a few people in that forum said it was within 2 mins of their actual race times:

http://www.triathloncalculator.com/

I'm doing well, can't wait for my first tri, only 17 days away (Aug 19)! WOW, can't believe it is finally here. Training is coming along, can swim and run my race distance, still working on the bike part. That is my only worry right now. I don't have another tri scheduled for this year, but I am going to do another 5K with some friends from work. They have never done one, so it is fun to hear and see how their trianing is coming. As far as doing anther tri in my life, I'm not going to rule that out, I just want to concentrate on this one first.

The only race goals that I have for this one is to finish. The time limit is 4 1/2 hours, my goal is anything between 3-4 hours. I'd be happier closer to 3 hours, but will settle for anything in between.

I hope everyone is well, sorry to hear about your pneumonia halfdome. Hope you are feeling better soon.

Question, since I've never done a tri before, only 5K's I'm not sure how my training should go the week of the triathlon. Right now my plan is the following:

1. Mon 8/13 - run race distance 3.3 mi
2. Tue 8/14 - bike between 15 - 18 mi
3. Wed 8/15 - rest
4. Thur 8/16 - rest
5. Fri 8/17 - swim race distance 1100 yds
6. Sat 8/18 - rest
7. Sun 8/19 - TRIATHLON

Does anything see something bad with this schedule, should I be doing something else, your thoughts would be most helpful.

Regarding your prep for your impending race, are you following a training plan or winging it on your own?  You may have read where I've written this before, but I can't more highly recommend following a plan.  Doing so, for me, added about 70% better results than when I trained according to my own schedule.  Food for thought...

1. Feeling CRAPPY about my training right now.  Had been doing SO well since January, preparing for my first race ever, then SHIN SPLINTS, which my phys therapist says is a result of compensating for poorly healed sprained ankle I suffered last summer.  I have onl 4% dorsal flexion (regular is 16-20%)--so my shins are working OT correcting for that.  He doesn't want me running AT ALL, and thus my training basically came to a halt 2 weeks ago...just as I was making significant progress with my running.  It's bled over into the rest of my training, because it just sucked the air outta my balloon and my motivation has spontaneously combusted.

2. My race is Oct 14 or 15--I forget--it's a super-sprint (really short!), and again, it's my first race.  I have no other races scheduled since it's late in the season.  I figure I'll spend the winter just working on my base fitness for the spring.

3.  I'm feeling ok about the race, except not sure yet what I'm going to do about the run given that I can't train for it.  I HAVE been consistently swimming and feel myself rapidly improving, I think I'll be slow but will survive the swim.  I have no concerns whatsoever about the bike race, since that's my sport.  Still don't have my new road bike yet, still making payment$ on it!  I've estimated my times for all 3 plus the transitions, and don't think I'll come in last (given previous years' results).  Oh, and I still haven't done an OW swim yet...need to get a wetsuit, but I wanna pay off the bike first...

4. Goal for my race is to finish, hopefully not last, but I do have that fear.

5. After the race, like I said, no plans but winter training.

Happy training everyone!