Your first triathlon - Joe Friel

Your First Triathlon is the
best-selling book for beginner triathletes because it makes preparing
for sprint triathlons fun and easy. This clear and comprehensive book
prepares aspiring triathletes for the challenge of their first tri
through a simple, 12-week training plan that requires fewer than 4 hours
a week. By race day, you'll have the confidence and fitness to enjoy
your first triathlon: swimming a half mile, riding a bike 12 miles, and
running 3 miles.

Your First Triathlon
offers a 12-week training plan for total beginners as well as custom
plans for athletes already experienced in swimming, cycling, or running.
The easy-to-use plans include achievable swim, bike, run, and optional
strength workouts that will slowly but surely build you into a
triathlete. As you build endurance, Joe Friel's technique workouts will
improve your speed and efficiency. Helpful tips will ensure you'll know
how to handle problems like a flat tire, soreness, and how to navigate
questions about etiquette in the pool or on a group ride or run.

Joe
simplifies the complexities of the swim-bike-run sport with his smart
advice on gear, how to prepare a transition area, finishing a
stress-free swim, and ensuring that race day goes as planned. Joe offers
tips on choosing a beginner-friendly triathlon and then walks you
through your entire race week covering packet pickup, knowing the
course, the pre-race briefing, what to eat for breakfast, check-in and
body marking, how to set up your transition area, warming up, what to do
in unexpected weather, a smart race plan, and what to do after you've
finished your first triathlon.

Joe Friel is the coach experienced triathletes trust most. His book The Triathlete's Training Bible is the best-selling resource in the sport and now his trusted advice is available to help you enjoy your first triathlon.