if you can run a good 3k and swim a fast 200m freestyle, we need you. Come try out for Modern Pentahlon!
if you can run a good 3k and swim a fast 200m freestyle, we need you. Come try out for Modern Pentahlon!
Where do I sign up? Oh, and define "good." Seriously, tell us more about this.
if you can run 8.30 or better and swimm 2.20 or better we can teach you the other sports
olympicdreams wrote:
if you can run a good 3k and swim a fast 200m freestyle, we need you. Come try out for Modern Pentahlon!
What are the sports in the Modern Pentahlon? In the Modern Pentathlon they are:
Shooting
Fencing
Swimming
Riding
Running
Are you sure the Modern Pentahlon is an Olympic Event?
I know there was a bunch of Olympic pentathletes training in San Antonio when I lived there. They used to show up at some of our long runs.
how good do we need to be to actually have a shot at the Olympics though?
very good, although non military types have won it many nations send military based teams to the World and Olympics.
runningfortheprize wrote:
how good do we need to be to actually have a shot at the Olympics though?
2:20??? thats not very fast.
olympicdreams wrote:
if you can run a good 3k and swim a fast 200m freestyle, we need you. Come try out for Modern Pentahlon!
Good luck riding that horse....over jumps/barriers.
Good luck riding that horse....over jumps/barriers.
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-scored a 1200 point (max score) after a year of training
- in a lot of competitions you may not even get to ride if you don't score well in shoot, fence, run, swim
2:20??? thats not very fast.
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yes it's true but while most pentathletes swim 2.0 something, it's a good day for them if they run 9.30
These Modern Pentathletes don't seem that fit.
Here are the results from the Athens Olympics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_pentathlon_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics
Look at the points for running. 10:00 in 3k XC gives you 1000 points. Any whole second above/below that is a difference of 4 points:
http://www.modern-pentathlon.com/scoring.html
The fastest runner picked up 1116 points in the run. That means he only ran 9:31. The gold medallist only ran 9:51.
If you're running 8:30 and can swim then it can't be that hard to figure out the rest of those events.
Shooting= Halo 3 Skill
Horse Back Riding= Sitting on your ass, albeit on a horse
Fencing= Hitting someone with a stick.
Piece o' Cake.
This looks like my ideal sport, if I could learn shooting and fencing.
yetanotherchick wrote:
This looks like my ideal sport, if I could learn shooting and fencing.
....or riding.
Not real good at reading comprehension?
Unarunner wrote:
olympicdreams wrote:if you can run a good 3k and swim a fast 200m freestyle, we need you. Come try out for Modern Pentahlon!
What are the sports in the Modern Pentahlon? In the Modern Pentathlon they are:
Shooting
Fencing
Swimming
Riding
Running
Are you sure the Modern Pentahlon is an Olympic Event?
There is a member of this board who won an Olympic medal in modern pentathlon. Anyone know who? (His story about the trials and making the team is quite a hoot!).
yetanotherchick wrote:
Not real good at reading comprehension?
So you are an accomplished equestrian....correct?
i believe that would be jack daniels.
I'm not excellent, but I'm not an accomplished swimmer either. I formerly did modestly well at both swimming and riding and they're both things that I could get back into happily. I'm not claiming that I would be Olympic material- only that it's a sport that could be ideal for me.