If you created your own triathlon what sports/events would it be?

hmmm. Speed golf looked like it would catch on a number of years ago but never did.

speed disc golf would have a better chance if the right promoters took it up.

paddle on a body board for a mile - entrants can choose to use fins or not.

kayak for about a mile - kayaks must be all the same kind - the cheap ass plastic ones.

5K but have to drink 4 beers at different spots on the course

1) rock climbing/bouldering, 2) paddleboarding, 3) running.

I'd use a similar opening leg strategy... best climbing grade with fewest attempts starts the paddle first then others begin on some timed interval.

Mine would look something like this -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akcc6DphLIg

1. Alpine ski giant slalom

2.speedgolf

3.Speedskating 10k

these events would eliminate 95% of the american pop. put the alpine on a fis grade hill .

half marathon trail run

Bowl 3 games

Shoot 100 free throws

Add bowling score and free throws made and subtract minutes of run.

Highest score wins.

I could run 1:42

Bowl 600

Make 85 free throws

My score would be 583

lumpy and dumpy wrote:

speed disc golf would have a better chance if the right promoters took it up.

No promoter would try to sell that to a bunch of fat guys who play in groups of 8 and break to drink and smoke weed every 2 holes.

1.) Eat a pan of really strong hash brownies (per M.L.E. regulations to make this leg fit the rules).

2.) Play a round of speed disc golf.

3.) Run a beer mile.

I'm pretty sure I'd beat most people in the world at my fantasy triathlon, but I'm not sure there're too many stoner alcoholic disk-golf playing milers out there to compete with...

1. Tumbling (is an acrobatic sporting discipline which combines some of the skills of artistic gymnastics on the floor with those of trampolining. It is practised on a 25-metre long spring track.)

2. Boomerang (Aussie Round: considered by many to be the ultimate test of boomeranging skills. The boomerang should ideally cross the 50-metre (160 ft) circle and come right back to the centre. Each thrower has five attempts. Points are awarded for distance, accuracy and the catch.)

3. Wife-carrying (is a contest in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in the fastest time. )

1. 3 mile kayak

2. Get out of your kayak and climb up a bluff

3. at the top of the bluff start a 10 mile trail run

I'm sure there's a whole lot of people out there who would beat me at this, but it would be fun.

Summer:

Whitewater kayak, followed by trail run or mountain bike, followed by rock climb

Winter:

Fat tire mountain bike, followed by cross country ski (classic), followed by ice climb

10 mile road run

stand-up paddleboard

100mile trail ultra

I would be dead last, if I even finished.

Bad Wigins wrote:

lumpy and dumpy wrote:

speed disc golf would have a better chance if the right promoters took it up.

No promoter would try to sell that to a bunch of fat guys who play in groups of 8 and break to drink and smoke weed every 2 holes.

whoa whoa whoa, we only stop to smoke weed every 3 holes

Mine would be rock climbing, 10 mile run, and kyaking.

I've never met someone like me who can climb 5.13 and run under 55 min for 10miles but I'm sure their out there so I would like to think I'd be top 5 in the world but who knows

a Dvck wrote:

I like disc golf. I want to tell some random people about it (because no one I know in real life cares), but I am also desperately hoping someone asks me about it (because no one I know in real life cares), so I made a post about "your own triathlon" to hopefully create a situation where the above might occur.

Your initial post was kind of long; I fixed it for you.

lumpy and dumpy wrote:

paddle on a body board for a mile - entrants can choose to use fins or not.

kayak for about a mile - kayaks must be all the same kind - the cheap ass plastic ones.

5K but have to drink 4 beers at different spots on the course

This actually sounds fun.

This is a man-woman team triathlon race

First event:

9 rounds of Mixed Martial Art Chicken Fight in the shallow end of an Olympic pool

Transition to:

3000m cross country wheel barrel race

Final race in event is:

200m sprint relay on the treadmill

Heidi's issues wrote:

3000m cross country wheel barrel race

Really?? Wheel barrel? Do you pronounce it like that as well? I would burst out laughing if I worked in a hardware store and someone came in asking for a "wheel barrel".

I'd like to see speed skating, either shot power or free kick football challenge, and a short cycling race, maybe 15-25k.