https://forum.slowtwitch.com/...swimmer..__P6739061/

Thing is, none of this guarantees she will be any good on a bike. They put Mo Farah on a bike in the BBC Superstars show and he was rubbish.

as i said bike is just transportation. but now im curious to farah results. have a link to the clip? I could not find.

As I remember it, he was really bad at pretty much everything except middle/long distance running.
He couldn't sprint, cycle, swim, throw, lift, paddle, aim, etc

Consolidated my view that single discipline hyper-specialisation is not for me!

but she wears cheater shoes...

they both do, and they are racing each other, not for time PR's on the run.

Poor Mo. I don't think he is alone. Single sport folks or even triathletes spend a lot of time doing a very limited spectrum of the sporting world.
When I was in college I worked at a summer camp as a swimming ,canoe instructor and beach manager. One of the kids I worked with came from a very wealthy family and was in military schools thru high school. No matter the sport he was tough to beat. Tetherball, pingpong, tennis, golf, horseshoes, basketball, baseball, gymnastics, wrestling, and a bunch of other sports he was a destroyer. In a 25 yard swim I could beat him by half a body (Was a flyer and distance freestyler in college) and I could out run him in a mile, but lose to him in a 100yard dash. He was just a very competent level competitor across the board. The speciality instructors could all beat him pretty handily at their sport, but other sports not so much.
Hard to say if a lady like that would take to triathlon. Every sport has a personality that you either take to or not.

All those who use cheater shoes should be disavowed.

Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Mo Farah was rubbish at anything other than distance-running and the Brownlees were hopeless over 100m. From memory it was, like, 18 seconds or something. The boxer won outright.

But the point is, being a good runner certainly won't make you a good triathlete. Bike-specific fitness is a thing (like we didn't know that). And unlike the OP I don't believe for one second that you can succeed at the highest level in any format, draft-legal or otherwise, without being strong on the bike.

Cheers, Rich.

Agreed, although being a good runner, rower, cross country skier, or similar, probably does suggest a person has the potential to BECOME a good cyclist.... probably.

Are you aware of her shoes and her sponsor?

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Sounds like a solid view on how to run a good marathon off the bike.

Hasay would need to change her body type a LOT for tri. But Colleen Quigley or Emma Coburn - both look like they could be amazing triathletes to me.

Steeplechasers tend to do well in this sport...

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The Brownlee's aren't great sprinters. But they do run faster than 18 sec per 100, for the entire 10k, in a triathlon.

Agreed, 18 second is 3 minutes per k. But maybe what they where really bad at was launching from the starting blocks. 18 seconds still seems to slow.

I guess that's one way to make ourselves feel better about not being great at anything. lol

Yeah I saw the show a few years ago. Mo Farah got 12.9s. Pretty slow, but it was wet, no spikes etc. I would imagine with the right gear, decent weather, decent warmup, Farah would be low 12s. He's a middle distance runner, anything below 12 is creeping into sprinting territory. I can't remember what the Brownlees got, it was much quicker than 18s, I think it was 13 something. AB holds 18s/100m for 10km.

I'm great at everything!
But seriously, I'd rather be really good at a hundred things than amazing at one. I know that's probably not the attitude most have around here, but that last 1% of performance takes more effort than it's worth. Not because I'm lazy, but because the effort is better spent getting to 99% in the next endevour. Just my opinion of course, but I've always thought certain types of greatness required an imagination deficit.

so you must be heavily vested into crossfit...?

this reminds me also of what I saw on recent youtube feed for suggestions. symmonds vs bare:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmD3EkKZnM


maybe talbot cox can get a triathlete to do this type of challenge :)

I was under 12 secs for 100m at 16yo and definitely not a sprinter (although playing football/soccer may have helped my all-around profile for running). I was at my best at middle distance and distance running (only up to 3-5k as you don't do much longer races at that age).

You should take up centrathlon! ;-)

I'd hate to think how much gear you'd need for that sport, but the transition area would look amazing. :-/

Nope

Why must I?

That's just one thing, or are you saying multisports aren't a sport in their own right? ;)

that is the sport where you test you jack of all trades ability.

Does it include kayaking, snooker, skiing, sailplane flying, orienteering, archery, karting, chess, and badminton?
I think your idea of "all trades" is a bit limited ;) and I don't think I even said I was specifically talking about sports, did I?

Stop trying to put everything in a box. It's unnecessary and kinda pathetic.
If I'd been trying to say CrossFitTM was better than any other "sport", I would have said it. I couldn't care less about CrossFitTM.