Archive for the ‘Biking’ Category
Riding a bicycle in the park can be fun. You can stroll along, enjoy the view and the feeling of the outdoors. Biking during a triathlon is something completely different. Getting on that road bicycle after an exhausting swim, still wet, panting and salty; that sure is not our idea of fun.
Hard and focused bicycle riding during a triathlon can earn the triathlete many minutes of advantage. The bike part of the race is long and enables one to narrow gaps that may have formed during the swim.
Bicycle training can be beautiful and fun
Questions that are relevant to triathlon biking include which bicycle should you use? Is it worth while to put on clits? How is a transition best performed between swimming and biking and between biking and running? When and what should you eat or drink during the bike ride? We will try to answer all these questions and more in our posts.