Aquathlon, anyone?

Forgive my ignorance but what is an Aquathlon?

Sounds pretty cool except there is only one small problem for me......The running part.......other than that, I'm down! Newmastersswimmer

Aquathlon is a multi-sport race, that consists of a swim (usually around 1000m) and a run (like 5K). It's only been around like a couple of years or so... I was just wondering if anyone had done one and what their training strategies were... peace...

Please do add more detail. What other events are we talking about? A 50m lifeguard's tow with a dummy? A kayaking race? I have a hard time seeing how a 5K run could be associated with anything calling itself "aqua_____." Moreover, I find the relative distances of the swimming and running events (100m vs. 5K) to be illustrative of who is really in charge of the event. (And, who is hijacking the term "aqua" so that they can set up a race that purports to show that runners are better overall athletes, but, I seem to have become confused about which discussion thread this is...) Matt

I'm looking at doing one, a 2.4 mile run, 1 mile swim , 2.4mile run. It would be my first so we'll see. My ten year old may be doing a 1/2 mile time trial (this is all open water by the way) at the same venue,so I thought we could do an event togather. They have an Aquabike here later in the summer, which was really hard to picture. It's a 1.2 mile swim with a 56 mile bike, a take off on the 1/2 IM triathlon, (or just do the OW swim and ride your bike home.)

Do they ever have a multi-sport event without RUNNING ? I keep looking for an "aquathon" or "duathlon" that is swimming and biking without the running. Do they have an name for a 2-stage swim-bike event, other than "I did not complete my trialthon".

I know... I only started running as a form of dryland training. Tris don't interest me (although I have one coming up), as the bike is just too much to schlep around... If you REALLY wanted to, you COULD register for a tri and just get your times for the cycle and the swim... Some races do allow that, I hear...

There are now aquabike events (swim-bike) which are run at the same time as some tri's. google" aquabike" for more info.

Last year I was a member of the US Tri and in the mag they sent out they were talking about letting people just do the swim and bike. I think they said the reason was for runners who had gotten hurt more then the people who don't like running. I for one would like to try to do something like an Ironman distance swim/bike, but have no interest in running. Then again I'd like to do anything with a nice distance swim instead of 15 minutes in the water and the next hour or two out of it.

I think it's a bad name -- Aquathlon. This is the first I've seen it. It implied to me that there would be several events all in the water. But now that I see the definition from the thread, I can see that it fills a niche, so what's in a name?