abinkley
New York, NY
Male, 29
I am a lawyer in NYC and recently raced my first Ironman Triathlon in Switzerland. I started training in Oct 2009 and raced in July 2010. The distances of an Ironman are a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and a 26.2-mile run (a full marathon). My overall time was 10 hrs, 56 mins, and 53 sec. My splits were: swim 1:14:08 / bike 5:28:38 / run 4:06:30 (the remainder was time for transitioning between disciplines). Prior to the Ironman, I had never swum 2.4 miles before, nor run a marathon.
Definitely Kona (the Hawaii Ironman), which is the world championship. You have to either place well enough in another race or win a lottery entrance to get in.
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I am not sure about "easier", but the best sport to be good at is cycling, since cycling is about half the race and if you can finish the ride fresh, the marathon will be that much easier. Also, cycling muscles translate very well into running, but the opposite does not seem to hold true. As far as swimming goes, you definitely need to know how to swim, but it is such a small portion of the race that having a swimming background is not terribly useful (I had not trained for swimming in almost 15 years when I started this.)
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Actually neither. Most triathlons have one "transition area" where you put your bike on a rack, lay your running shoes out, etc, so that when you finish the swim you come to the transition (T1) to get your bike and when you finish the bike you come back to the same transition (now called T2) to rack your bike and put on your running shoes. There are some tris that have the swim-to-bike transition (T1) at a different location than the bike-to-run transition (T2) for logistical / course reasons, but in those cases you just get up REALLY early before the race to set those up and get to the swim start in time.
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Yes and no. I did not drink much, but because I was training so much I needed an exceptional amount of calories. I ate a lot of bacon and ice cream during this time...
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See my answer to the question about quitting! Seriously though, I would like to do another at some point when I have more time on my hands, but for the foreseeable future Ironman Switzerland is it for me.
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I actually have no idea! Definitely not all, for a couple reasons. Obviously a number will drop out for injury, exhaustion, or lack of mental ability, but a number will also get pulled for not making time cuts. The race organizers will pull people out of the race if they do not finish each leg in a certain amount of time, so that the course is not open forever.
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Nope! But I considered (and attempted) a lot of others before doing the IM, including rowing 99,999 meters on a rowing machine (because that was the highest number you could set the machine for) and hiking the Appalachian Trail (2,609 miles) in 100 days (summer vacation). I finished the row (7hrs 58mins 43secs), but hurt myself after 10 days of doing a marathon a day hiking and had to hitchhike out of the Smoky Mountains...
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