{"id":23,"date":"2023-02-04T05:07:38","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2023-07-10T06:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T06:11:07","slug":"what-are-the-different-triathlon-distances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/what-are-the-different-triathlon-distances","title":{"rendered":"What are the different triathlon distances?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you considering entering a Triathlon but are a bit confused by the terms? Sprint distance? Olympic distance? Ironman? This post will help you understand what you&#8217;re signing up for!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/triathlons\">Triathlon<\/a>\u00a0is a race consisting of three legs (in this order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Swim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bike<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The distances vary from race to race, and are often referred to by the following names:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><th>Name<\/th><th>Swim<\/th><th>Bike<\/th><th>Run<\/th><\/tr><tr><td>Sprint<\/td><td>750m<\/td><td>20k<\/td><td>5k<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Olympic<\/td><td>1.5k<\/td><td>40k<\/td><td>10k<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Long<\/td><td>3k<\/td><td>80k<\/td><td>20k<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Half Ironman<\/td><td>1.9k<\/td><td>90k<\/td><td>21.1k<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ironman<\/td><td>3.8k<\/td><td>180k<\/td><td>42.2k<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you considering entering a Triathlon but are a bit confused by the terms? Sprint distance? Olympic distance? Ironman? This post will help you understand what you&#8217;re signing up for!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/what-are-the-different-triathlon-distances\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-triathlon"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runcalendar.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}