The results indicate that US life expectancy drops by 2 years when people sit for more than 3 hours a day, and another 1.4 years for watching TV more than 2 hours a day.
A half distance triathlon, also known as âmiddle distanceâ and sometimes referred to as a 70.3 (named for the total number of miles travelled) covers, as the name suggests, half the distance of the Iron-man. The required distances are a 1.93 km (1.2 miles) swim, a 90 km (56 miles) cycle and 21.9 km (13.1 mile) run.he Olympic distance triathlon, also known as âinternational distanceâ requires a 1.5 km (0.93 mile) swim, a 40 km (24.8 mile) cycle and a 10 km (6.2 mile) run.
A triathlon is a multiple-stage competition involving the completion of three continuous and sequential endurance disciplines. While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances.Triathletes compete for fastest overall course completion time, including timed transitions between the individual swim, cycle, and run components.he standard Olympic distance of 1.5/40/10 km (0.93/24.8/6.2 miles) was created by longtime triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U.S. Triathlon Series (USTS) between 1982 and 1997.