re: Augusta 70.3 - Did My First Half

Your swim time isn't really bad, but I've heard Augusta is a swim with the current assist, so in a lake or something, that might go up. I don't know your swim background, but just getting in the water more will have time coming off that. It's a pretty easy improvement from back of the pack to middle of the pack. Now from a middle of the pack on up, it takes a lot of work. A swim coach can help if you have poor form. Time in the pool will help in general.

I know someone else said gadgets and what not are second to fitness, and they totally are. But on the bike, if you have some spare cash, you can buy speed even while increasing fitness. A power meter helps do both. You base workouts around the power and you can make sure you hit your targets as opposed to just mindlessly peddling. You can also pace the bike leg much better. But at $750 or so, it ain't cheap. An aero helmet and well fitting suit are going to be in the $250 range and will save you some time. Your position on the bike is the biggest factor though without a doubt. A tri bike makes it much easier than a road bike, but again, you are looking at $2,000. It's stupid expensive, but if you increase your cycling fitness and add those things, you are below 3 hours pretty easily. You can have the same fitness and buy all that stuff and probably gain 1 mile per hour if not more. That's like 12 minutes and you didn't even train harder. It's a pricey 12 minutes, but it's not nothing. In a full, it becomes huge.


I can't run, so no help there