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It's a pretty general question you've asked, you might want to snoop
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I am new to the sport, am thinking of taking up duathlon. Any help and
advice would be much appreciated.

Info required: maybe some vague training ideas,
how to go about the sport.
available races and frequency of events.
funding, teams, sponsorship etc

Thanks!

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thanks, seems like a friendly crowd. Good point from both of you.
I'm a fairly highly experienced cyclist and I tend to specialize in
Time Trials. I am cycling fit despite doing some cyclocross a few
years ago I am not running fit yet. In Cycling I am an international
level rider but am feeling the need for a new challenge after many
years based in europe traveling around a lot and seemingly doing the
same stuff every year.

I will be based most of the time around south france/northern Spain, so
the races I would be looking for would be around that area.

In terms of teams, sponsorships etc, I'm interested in a fairly good
level. First I'll see how I get on at a "local" level, but if I do get
hooked I would be interested in teams providing full support if such
things exist in duathlon.
For now and with other obligations throughout most of the year I am
planning to stick to Duathlon as I swim like a led U-boat full of
holes...

Again thanks for any info.
PS: I'm not totally green, I did a few duathlons a couple years ago, 1
triathlon and a 1 or 2 running events as part of sponsor support yada
yada yada and won them all, but they were only local things and I
suffered for about a week after each with leg pain.
PPS: beginnertriathlete.com looks pretty good overall. Thanks!

Check out all of the articles here:

http://www.socaltriathlete.com/articles.html

Chris
SoCal Triathlete

TriFagElite said:

thanks, seems like a friendly crowd. Good point from both of you.
I'm a fairly highly experienced cyclist and I tend to specialize in
Time Trials. I am cycling fit despite doing some cyclocross a few
years ago I am not running fit yet. In Cycling I am an international
level rider but am feeling the need for a new challenge after many
years based in europe traveling around a lot and seemingly doing the
same stuff every year.

I will be based most of the time around south france/northern Spain, so
the races I would be looking for would be around that area.

In terms of teams, sponsorships etc, I'm interested in a fairly good
level. First I'll see how I get on at a "local" level, but if I do get
hooked I would be interested in teams providing full support if such
things exist in duathlon.
For now and with other obligations throughout most of the year I am
planning to stick to Duathlon as I swim like a led U-boat full of
holes...

Again thanks for any info.
PS: I'm not totally green, I did a few duathlons a couple years ago, 1
triathlon and a 1 or 2 running events as part of sponsor support yada
yada yada and won them all, but they were only local things and I
suffered for about a week after each with leg pain.
PPS: beginnertriathlete.com looks pretty good overall. Thanks!