Signed up to Jönköping 70.3 2021HIM here in Sweden.
This will be my first tirathlon (unless i pick another event as a training run before)
My race experience so is a 10km run, and a 2km and 3.2km openwater race so i know i have alot of work ahead
Swim is my most comfortable - i did a regular 2km swim acorss the local bay and a 4-5km jog back (carrying my gear) most weekends over the summer
Im heavily into to researching stuff at the minute and putting a training plan in action, and it has become quite clear that info on the bike element can be bogged down into a lot of technical stuff to do with the bike - (a friend said a triathlon is just a bike race with a couple of minor incoveniances) - and that costs soon get high - where as the swim is a wetsuit and the run is a pair of decent shoes.
I will be the first to admit that know nothing really about bikes.
I bought this https://whitebikes.com/gx-pro-20/b/2459/ as my first bike in well over a decade,
In the uk the aim was to have a bike that was so bad no one would steal it, so even if this is cheap by modern bike standrads, for me its dead fancy - but I have no real idea what i have actually bought - so if any one fancies a peak at the specs and could give me some feedback it would be much appreciated.
I have ridden the bike on 3 (not so) longer rides for me - around 45km with an average speed of 25-27kmph which includes getting lost, detours / riding on mixed surfaces (including a fair amount of gravel!) and just wearing running shoes on flats.
So for this first post im wondering if all the standard info on getting some clip on areobars, clipless pedals /shoes and getting more road based tyres to say 32 - 30mm is the right way to go (if so what do folk reccomend?) - also wondering if its not better to have a seperate set of wheels? i.e one for the 37mm for when its a bit rough outside, and then a spereate set with the thinner tyers on?
This will be my first tirathlon (unless i pick another event as a training run before)
My race experience so is a 10km run, and a 2km and 3.2km openwater race so i know i have alot of work ahead
Swim is my most comfortable - i did a regular 2km swim acorss the local bay and a 4-5km jog back (carrying my gear) most weekends over the summer
Im heavily into to researching stuff at the minute and putting a training plan in action, and it has become quite clear that info on the bike element can be bogged down into a lot of technical stuff to do with the bike - (a friend said a triathlon is just a bike race with a couple of minor incoveniances) - and that costs soon get high - where as the swim is a wetsuit and the run is a pair of decent shoes.
I will be the first to admit that know nothing really about bikes.
I bought this https://whitebikes.com/gx-pro-20/b/2459/ as my first bike in well over a decade,
In the uk the aim was to have a bike that was so bad no one would steal it, so even if this is cheap by modern bike standrads, for me its dead fancy - but I have no real idea what i have actually bought - so if any one fancies a peak at the specs and could give me some feedback it would be much appreciated.
I have ridden the bike on 3 (not so) longer rides for me - around 45km with an average speed of 25-27kmph which includes getting lost, detours / riding on mixed surfaces (including a fair amount of gravel!) and just wearing running shoes on flats.
So for this first post im wondering if all the standard info on getting some clip on areobars, clipless pedals /shoes and getting more road based tyres to say 32 - 30mm is the right way to go (if so what do folk reccomend?) - also wondering if its not better to have a seperate set of wheels? i.e one for the 37mm for when its a bit rough outside, and then a spereate set with the thinner tyers on?