Mini Triathlons Have Major Appeal

Frankly, the most useful element of this post may be this link to Active.com, a website that lists upcoming competitions for amateur athletes in several sports. Active.com’s vice president and co-founder Mike Reilly is quoted in an L.A. Times piece on the increasing popularity of multi-sport events. These competitions, the Times reports, can take the form of mini-triathlons (cycling, swimming and running),
duathlons (cycling and running) or aquathlons (swimming and running).
The distances are but a fraction of their more consuming cousins. For
example, the Ironman triathlon consists of a 2.4-mile swim and 112-mile
bike ride, followed by a marathon. The distances for a mini-tri or
sprint-tri (with some variation) can be a 12.4-mile bike ride, a
3.1-mile run and a swim that ranges from a third of a mile to just more
than half a mile. Some events are even done as relays. Read more about going the shorter distance in the L.A. Times.