Well firstly, duathlon is way way harder than triathlon, hands down! I’m serious, it’s brutal. Especially over the standard duathlon distance of a 10km run, 40km bike and 5km run, compared to an Olympic-distance triathlon of 1,500m swim, 40km bike and 10km run.
GREAT FOR RACE PACING
But as you say, I am, or have been many moons ago, a duathlon champ (love that, thanks, ha!). But I’m still surprised that more domestic pros don’t race the duathlon events early season – most of the international pros are clearly far too cool to race a duathlon, ha! But it is a great way to do a race-pace simulation, work on transitions and, of course, your race craft as a whole.
100% LEGS, LEGS, LEGS
It’s basically 15km of running, but…