Calling all triathletes - current and former

Elise, I'd like to hear more about your experience with the AquaBike event you mentioned doing. I am medically not permitted to run either due to a spinal deformity, but I can swim and bike fine. I come from a family of ultra-marathoners and Ironmen/women and I feel a little left out. Can you tell us a little more about your AquaBike experience? Thanks, Willow Sorry for jumping in here...USAT recently has started sanctioning these kind of events. See: www.usatriathlon.org/.../OtherDisciplines.aspx I can't run either (bad knees) and I've done a few of these events, usually either Olympic distance or IM 70.3 distance. It is fun to head to the hospitality tent after racking your bike. The number of local/regional opportunities to do aquabike races (they go by various other names sometimes) are increasing in this area; as baby boomers age and get more (running) injuries I suspect the popularity will increase even more. Of course some triathlete purists don't like the event.

Elise, I'd like to hear more about your experience with the AquaBike event you mentioned doing. I am medically not permitted to run either due to a spinal deformity, but I can swim and bike fine. I come from a family of ultra-marathoners and Ironmen/women and I feel a little left out. Can you tell us a little more about your AquaBike experience? Thanks, Willow Sorry for jumping in here...USAT recently has started sanctioning these kind of events. See: www.usatriathlon.org/.../OtherDisciplines.aspx I can't run either (bad knees) and I've done a few of these events, usually either Olympic distance or IM 70.3 distance. It is fun to head to the hospitality tent after racking your bike. The number of local/regional opportunities to do aquabike races (they go by various other names sometimes) are increasing in this area; as baby boomers age and get more (running) injuries I suspect the popularity will increase even more. Of course some triathlete purists don't like the event.