NY Times Article on Triathalon Training

[bocarider]

Interesting article on tri training in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/health/nutrition/08BEST.html#

The prevailing wisdom appears that you just can’t do it all well.

Bonus points for the first person to spot what is wrong with the picture accompanying the article.

[M.Sommers]

Don't laugh, a friend of mine did a tri, the bike portion, using his mother-in-law's mountain bike, purchased from Walmart.

He's on a rocket this year, thanks to Handsomerob (and a $99.00 Campy cable).

:beer:


PS. As for my bonus, buy my Pinarello Prince for sale in the classified so I can get a friggin bike that fits.

[PaulE]

Although my idea of a swim is to lay on a raft in the pool, and I am like Richard Pryor in that I only run when I'm on fire. My cycling is suffering a little this year though at the expense of my eating and drinking which are both in top form. :)

[Onno]

I think the article really only applies to the very, very best athletes. The key point, buried in the article, is that training for triathlons is a way of giving a purpose to what for many middle-aged athletes is the necessary switch to cross-training as a way of avoiding boredom and injuries. A point the article doesn't make at all is that you don't have to be extraordinary at all 3 sports to do well in triathlons (at the citizen level); you only have to be good at all 3, i.e. not suck in one of them.

[LegendRider]

Bonus points for the first person to spot what is wrong with the picture accompanying the article.

The bike is upside down.

[MarleyMon]

The bike is upside down.
No, the goggles are supposed to go horizontally around the chainrings,
not hang vertically from the crankarm. :rolleyes:

[Too Tall]

What's the point? Not to cast dispursions natch.

[bleusky]

Bonus points for the first person to spot what is wrong with the picture accompanying the article.

bike looks like a mountain bike