Question:When triathlons first originated was it running, shooting,
biking. Were the guns carried on the bike or on the run?
I guess liability concerns made swimming take the place of
the shooting?
Answer:
Which triathlons are you speaking of? The pentalon had it, along with
fencing, but I don't recall run, bike, shoot at any point.
But it doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'm going to think about where it
could be successfully staged in the Bay Area. And should the penalty loop
for misses by on the bike, run, or athlete choice?
Pick up a book on the history of triathlon. Shooting was never involved,
dude.
About 14 years ago, when I last participated in multisport events, the
term "biathlon" was commonly used to describe the run-bike-run events
now known as duathlons. That may be what led to the confusion.
