By Vince on 16/02/2007 11:24

Those of you who have had the opportunity to laugh at my distressed splashing efforts at swimming better suck up those memories because those days may well be over.  Oh yes, Vince the bobbing cork/splashing fool/wind-up frog with deffective paddle will soon, with the help of Swim For Tri, be reborn as aqua man, hydro dude or just simply H2-Oh my god that was fast.

Newbie triathletes, we just can’t get enough biking and running.  It’s the law of returns we love.  Stick more in, try harder and you get more out, you go faster.  Throw that attitude in the pool and you get more tired and go slower. 

Let’s just admit it newbies, fishes aside, we all just slog through the swim because we have to.  It’s the biking and running where the real racing begins.  The only reason we don’t just stick with duathlon, is it’s just not really very cool and there’s less kit to buy.

The thing is, the swim sets up the rest of your race.  If you’re like me, you know you’ll never be first out of the water,...

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