Other than that it’s a great combination of endurance capability. Using your body to move yourself across a great distance. But the bike adds a mechanical portion that seems like it’s just a hodgepodge of endurance events. It doesn’t fit the spirit of a pure event. Without it, it is just your body that matters.
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You are just describing Swimrun, it's a different type of event.
It’s not really popular though since triathlon is considered the main combined endurance event
They should replace biking with climbing.
Ive thought of that too. I’m not sure how exactly they’d design courses though for that.
Running would be last, but I don't know which should go first. You don't want to be tired and fall while climbing but you also don't want to be tired and drown.
They are tired from swimming anyway
You're an idiot.
Have you ever heard of ultra swims? They swim for hours. It’s not an issue regarding drowining
Yeah but most triathletes aren't ultra swimmers.
What is the normal order of events in triathlon? Swim, run, bike?
swim, bike, run
Not feasible. If you make the kind of climbing where you have to re-attach your harness timed, people will try to do it as quickly as possible and it becomes a race who does it less safely with obvious tragic consequences.
They already have freeclimbing races, not everything has to be safe.
Competitive Russian roulette is a thing if Deer Hunter is to be believed, but good luck bringing that to Olympics or getting big sponsorships.
>but I don't care how popular the sport is
Then do it yourself however the frick you want to, the thread is about modifying an established sport, presumably without killing its popularity.
Tbh I didn't even know triathlons were in the Olympics.
moronic idea. The point is to have a combination of endurance events.
Swimrun has a wilderness element to it with rougher terrain. Aquathlon is triathlon without the bike.
A very minority of triathlon events already include an aquathlon alternative option, but it's rare. But here is a way to make auqathlon more common: go to triathlon events and claim triathlon with bike is discrimination against poor people, tell them to add aquathlon to make things more equitable.
Aquathlon sounds perfect tbh
> "Warm water" standard distances are 2.5 km run, 1000m swim, 2.5 km run. If the rated water temperature is below 22 °C then it becomes a wetsuit-mandatory 1000m swim and a single 5 km run.
and biathlon is WAY different
seriously you would never guess the two
They should add skydiving. Jump out of plane into the ocean, swim to shore then run to victory
Replace biking with duck walking.
It should be
>swim (full body)
>canoe and pull heavy floating objects from the water (upper body pull with balance)
>carry canoe certain distance (full body pretty much)
>lift large cumbersome object up a series of ledges (push)
It's a triathlon, not crossfit.
See
The bike portion is the money making portion.
Any reason why triathlon athletes are DYELs?
I mean there probably are some jacked triathletes but they aren't going to win any races carrying a lot of excess muscle
In that case I will not be becoming a triathlon athlete since they look like shit
because they do not lift, don't need mass need endurance the most ?
why did u think they should look differently
Hear me out:
It should be running, swimming AND obstacle course for testing agility.
Swim & Run would great. 1.5k swim + 10k run would be fantastic. I don’t give a shit about riding a bike.
You guys are moronic. Instead of this stupid run swim bike shit it should be bench press, deadlift and squats
>b-bu
Shut up DYELhomosexual
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