[QuixoticNotions]

Which event are you best at -- running, cycling, or swimming - right now?<br><br>
In which event do you have the most relative (to others with similar training/fitness levels) talent naturally?<br><br>
For me, I mean, I'm below average in all of them both now and at any given fitness level... but<br><br>
Bicycling. (for both right now, because my fitness is not high)<br><br><i>Though I have to admit, running is my original sport and it will always be the most important to me.<br></i><br>
What about you?

 

[Stitcher]

swimming...definitely.<br>
But......I love the fact that you feel like you're moving in cycling....just by being out there.<br>
I don't always feel like I'm moving when I'm running.

 

[BethR]

Swimming for sure. I'm still slow running and just ramping up my cycling, but I'm starting to hit my fastest 100s with less effort than it used to take. I think just because it was the only thing I train fast at all winter. And, the extra weight I'm carrying doesn't hurt my speed in the pool like it does on the road.

 

[RunningForT3]

It's running for me. I often wonder if I'm a triathlete now, or still a runner?

 

[4boysmom]

Not sure. I've been cycling the longest, so feel most comfortable on the bike. However, the run is really coming along. I've places several times in smaller races. Swimming is certainly my worst!

 

[teacherjen]

My best sport is definately the carbo-load the night before..... <img alt="wink.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/wink.gif"> Oh, and I'm also really good at the requisite triathlon-gear shopping.... that and the after-race beer drinking....gosh-darned good at that as well.

 

[kylemcm]

I like running the most, but the bike is definately my strongest of the three. Swimming still has a long way to go.

 

[runninirish]

I think I finally turned the corner last year and became a triathlete, not a runner who does triathlons...but there is no doubt the run is my strength...I also have a May marathon, so my focus is there right now...

 

[Boyerdavea]

Running is by far my best sport. I haven't owned a bike but for 5 months now. My cycling is coming along quite well.<br><br>
Swimming? Well...Let's just say that everytime I get in the water I am just happy to get out and still be breathing. One of these days though. Just maybe, it will come along with the rest of catagories...

 

[donskiman]

Biking!

 

[therambler]

Right now I'm probably strongest in cycling but thats because I'm just coming of a pretty serious hamstring injury. My natural talent lies in swimming.<br><br>
I alway like to think that I'm strongest in running but thats really not the case it's just the one that I like doing the most.

 

[MBannon]

I'm actually pretty even in all three, but I feel like I have the potential to improve in the swim and bike. The running, maybe not so much, mostly due to injuries that crop up when I push that sport. So I guess that's my weakest.<br><br>
I really don't have a favorite, either. A born triathlete, I guess. Who knew. Now if I could just get good...

 

[jkaiser20]

Interesting question. My run is strongest right now, and I probably have more natural strength there than the others. Probably simply due to the fact that running is such a part of most other sports.

 

[bcc594]

I've been running since I was in Grade 4. I started swimming with a group about a year and a half ago, and bought a bike about a year ago. I'm still way better running than I am in the other two disciplines (in my first tri, I was 85/150 on the swim; 35/150 on the bike; and 6/150 on the run), but I think that my cycling is catching up. My bulky legs had to be good for something! <img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"> I seem to be able to hang with better cyclists while training, and I'm thinking about trying a few bike races this coming year as well. Still, I think of myself as a runner who does the other stuff.

 

[pcsronbo]

Interesting. Normally, I would say swimming but I just saw my underwater video and CRINGED. oh-my-god-i-suck right now. I can still bang our a :36/50y without much problem but my form is HORRIBLE at the moment.<br><br>
Cycling I've stuck on cruise control at the moment but I'm still getting 3-4hrs/wk on it so I expect the fitness will hold. Plus I'm focusing on cadence-cadence-cadence and hills-hills-hills so I hope I see a result come spring.<br><br>
Everything for me, now, is about the run. And I certainly don't say i'm any good at it. I just don't suck as much as I used to.<br><br>
I'm a more natural swimmer and cyclist. State level swimmer when I was 8-10. Cycling as transportation whole life. Ran first mile 4/3/05.<br><br>
Long term, if I ever stop doing tris, it's running that may get ejected. At 234lbs the constant monitoring of all my body parts to make sure I'm not about to break nothin is a lot of work. I could swim/cycle to my heart's content w/ little thought.

 

[Kate60]

Not naturally talented in any of the three. I used to say running was my best sport but post injury I am having a hard time with it.<br><br>
I am hoping I will be better on the bike this year.

 

[caffeinated]

They all hurt and none of them come naturally to me. I swim like a panicked cat, bike like a wobbly 6 year-old and run, umm..., like someone who wishes he wasn't running.<br><br>
But I love it. Everytime I finish a training session I feel like I've achieved something. And fininshing a race feels awesome.<br><br>
I enjoy hiking, rockclimbing and sitting around drinking coffee. Those aren't going to keep me as fit as I want to be. That's why I put myself through this.

 

[LookiLoo]

Probably swimming. I wish there was more time in triathlon for swimming, unfortunately it's over too quickly and you spend most of the time on the bike and run.

 

[Dougie Fresh]

Based on my leg times, cycling is my strongest. I spend the most time running though. Swimming is by far my weakest.<br><br>
So, I'd say volleyball is my best sport <img alt="smile.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/smile.gif">.

 

[corrade]

I've only been running for 3ish years, but I rode bikes and skated as a kid. When I started running in my 30's, the gigantic cycling legs from my teens came right back, but I don't cycle competively. Maybe I should see where my talent really lies? In my 3 years running I've become known mostly as a trail runner.