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royaal
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Nov 27, 2007

Nov 27, 2007 7:14 AM

Triathlon Dates


I am new to Triathlons and have been training now for about 2 months and want to do an Olympic Distance Tri. I want to find one and make that my goal but few have been announced so far, when do they typically start being annouced?


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Joe_H1
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1. Nov 27, 2007 8:03 AM in response to: royaal
welcome to the sport

some are open already and some wait till january. check the calendar here and at trifind.com

any race in particular you want to try?

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Swazi69
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2. Nov 27, 2007 11:56 AM in response to: royaal
Re: Triathlon Dates
Depends on how far you are willing to travel(or where you live), there are ones in Las Vegas in April, August and October.
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royaal
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3. Nov 28, 2007 10:14 PM in response to: Joe_H1
Re: welcome to the sport
I would like to start out with a sprint triathlon just so I can experience a triathlon. I hope to do an olympic distance quickly after, I have been training for th elast couple of months and think that I will be ready for an olympic distance by then. Do you know of any good events in the St Louis area?
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4. Nov 29, 2007 6:20 AM in response to: royaal
Re: welcome to the sport

no sorry don't know st. louis at all but check trifind.com and active.com then check w/ local tri clubs to see what others have said about the races. also I think beginnertriathlete.com has a fairly large collection of race reports you can check.

do you have a training plan together already? if not check the generic ones at triathlete.com, beginnertriathlete.com, trinewbies.com trifuel.com and slowtwitch.com should give you some good ideas.

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triguy333
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5. Nov 30, 2007 8:16 AM in response to: royaal
Re: welcome to the sport

Reach out to your local club www.stlouistriclub.com They are a great resource for tri's in your area. They have some great coaches that I have worked with before and been to coaching seminars with.
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6. Nov 30, 2007 12:12 PM in response to: royaal
Re: Triathlon Dates

Dear Guys, my name is Fernando Cesário, Im brazilian and me and my wife are intending to go to the US for an Half Iron Man Distance Event, but its been quite difficult to find some consolidated schedule, in the Iron Man 70,3 I have to get in event by event, and other events Im just not finding in any part in the net.

Does anybody knows how can I get this informations? Is there any Triathlon Federation that publicates the Annual Schedule of H.Man for 2008 ?

Thanks in advance,

Fernando


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triguy333
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7. Nov 30, 2007 12:20 PM in response to: Cesário
Re: Triathlon Dates

Hey Fernando-

Check out www.ironman.com/events/ironman70.3 It was a story they published on Nov 22nd

Best of luck

Mike

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8. Nov 30, 2007 1:34 PM in response to: Cesário
Re: Triathlon Dates
trifind.com has a pretty listing of 70.3 and half iron events. any place or time of year you'd like to come up?
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rwillowsprings
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9. Dec 10, 2007 11:55 PM in response to: royaal
Re: Triathlon Dates
Hey there,
I'm also new to tri. I've done a sprint tri so far and am in training for the Lavaman triathlon on the Big Island of Hawaii. It's an Olympic distance tri. It's April 6 and it comes highly recommended as a first tri event by many experienced triathletes. Here's the website: http://lavamantriathlon.com/. The bike course is over a portion of the Ironman world championship bike course.
Take care,
Randy
(Fear of failure provides lack of effort)
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10. Dec 12, 2007 10:52 AM in response to: royaal
Re: Triathlon Dates
Hope this helps:


Good luck with your training and racing!
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