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.
Woodstock wrote:It's hard to judge times because according to triathlon rules the course has to be within a 10% accuracy limit so the distance can be as short as 38km.This is a common misconception regarding ironmans. Shorter tris can employ the 10% rule although most the the time it's a smaller discrepancy around 2-4%. Ironmans are the full distance. Woodstock wrote: It's hard to judge times because according to triathlon rules the course has to be within a 10% accuracy limit so the distance can be as short as 38km.