That is the my preferred order of the sports. In a triathlon the order is swim – bike – run.  Hardest to easiest in my opinion.  But, I am a runner so running should be the easiest.  Now that I’ve been bike commuting almost every day and doing some longer rides on the weekend running is getting easier.  While swimming on a somewhat regular basis has made it more enjoyable, it isn’t really getting easier and actually requires the most prep work and is the least social.

I’ve been swimming with a group of triathletes, and my friend who organizes the swims made it fairly clear she wants me to give triathlons a tri, so I’ve been thinking about it more.  A recent Runners World cover story on switching from running to triathlon also got me thinking.  Swimming is the hardest ( have I mentioned that?) and this week I only got out once for 600 yards.

The biggest problem is that I can’t run – at least not any distance or with any speed.  I mean seriously, I only ran 4 miles last week! And that was my highest mileage since March!!  I was thinking about doing the Minneapolis Duathlon when I remembered that the second discipline in a duathlon is running, oops.

As I’ve been increasing my bike mileage both commuting and “training” I’ve also been contemplating a nicer bike for the training parts of life.  It seems crazy to drop a couple of thousand on a super nice bike that would only get ridden a few times a week, but it is very tempting. I’ve started looking at craigslist and need to start trying to figure out how much I’m willing/able to spend on a new toy. This week I did 50 miles of just commuting and errands – way more than I drove!

So I maybe looking at a late summer/early fall triathlon.  On Thursday I actually ran in the morning, did my normal bike commuting, and swam in the evening.  I was quite tired, but it was the first time I’d done all 3 at once.  We’ll see how the running goes, especially after Ragnar.

The most notable thing though is that when I was recently getting some bike shorts, I made sure to buy a pair of tri shorts.

What do you think? Should I tri it?

This week’s One Post is a guest post from Coach Mike aka Rocco about Tune Up Races.