AHare wrote:
Noof wrote:
I heard part of the story of how triathlon started, but have never heard if there was an answer, or conclusion.
My guess would be cyclists or cross country skiers. Has it been answered?
If you throw a swimmer in a running race, they'll look very un-fit.
If you throw a runner in a swimming race, they'll look very un-fit.
There are many ways to measure fitness: appearances (swimmers), real-life usefulness of muscles developed (swimmers probably), race-wise (depends on race) and scientifically (wattage outputs, VO2, metabolism, resting HR), and different sporting specialists will have different results. So to get any kind of a real answer, your question needs to be much more tightly defined. And once you define it as "who has the best VO2" or something, you'll just get people bitching that that's not a good way to measure fitness.
This is why I hate and love slowtwitch.
I suppose what I am asking is not just one question...
In a way I am asking which sport is more difficult. It's irrelevant but at the same time very interesting. Running a 2:03 marathon or riding alp d'huez in 37minutes or 100m butterfly in 49seconds.
I am also interested in yes, V02 max I suppose, which sport has the highest trained athletes.
Im also curious about the conclusion to the creation of triathlon, which to me is more of a question than a sport. Back in the day which athletes came from what background? Who faired the best?
If you look at MMA for instance, originally people were not cross trained they came from different practices. Some practices appeared to be clearly ahead of others, for example, muay thai vs boxing. Now kids are raised as pure mixed fighters and there's no more practice vs practice. The same thing has happened in triathlon, and I think Macca really lead that wave. Anyway to get back to my last part of the question, does anyone know which athletes came from what background that faired the best in beginning of triathlon?
