Your First Triathlon
by By Friel, Joe
Category: Sports & Recreation , Cycling

Your First Triathlon is the  best-selling book for beginner triathletes because it makes preparing  for sprint triathlons fun and easy. This clear and comprehensive book  prepares aspiring triathletes for the challenge of their first tri  through a simple, 12-week training plan that requires fewer than 4 hours  a week. By race day, you’ll have the confidence and fitness to enjoy  your first triathlon: swimming a half mile, riding a bike 12 miles, and  running 3 miles.Your First Triathlon  offers a 12-week training plan for total beginners as well as custom  plans for athletes already experienced in swimming, cycling, or running.  The easy-to-use plans include achievable swim, bike, run, and optional  strength workouts that will slowly but surely build you into a  triathlete. As you build endurance, Joe Friel’s technique workouts will  improve your speed and efficiency. Helpful tips will ensure you’ll know  how to handle problems like a flat tire, soreness, and how to navigate  questions about etiquette in the pool or on a group ride or run.Joe  simplifies the complexities of the swim-bike-run sport with his smart  advice on gear, how to prepare a transition area, finishing a  stress-free swim, and ensuring that race day goes as planned. Joe offers  tips on choosing a beginner-friendly triathlon and then walks you  through your entire race week covering packet pickup, knowing the  course, the pre-race briefing, what to eat for breakfast, check-in and  body marking, how to set up your transition area, warming up, what to do  in unexpected weather, a smart race plan, and what to do after you’ve  finished your first triathlon.Joe Friel is the coach experienced triathletes trust most. His book The Triathlete’s Training Bible is the best-selling resource in the sport and now his trusted advice is available to help you enjoy your first triathlon.