UPDATE: We’re doing the triathlon test run at Mystic Lakes instead. But I’ll leave this post here because it’s probably a pretty decent practice run for the Marlborough Triathlon, in case anyone stumbles upon it and lives somewhere near concord.

The original post for the Walden Pond test run is after the jump.

As I posted earlier, I recently signed up for my first triathlon, and have begun training in earnest. Peter and I are going to do a simulated triathlon next month, and we figured Walden Pond would be a good place to do it. I just used gmap-pedometer to map out a possible course that roughly matches the distances of the Marlborough Triathlon.

For the swim, we’re going to walk around the pond, until we’re a third of a mile from the main beach, and then swim back. The transition area will be near the bike racks, and we’ll have to run up and down the path to the street for the start/finish of the bike and run.

Here is the gmap-pedometer link for the swim: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3716844

Here is a google map of the bike route …

… and the gmap-pedometer for the bike route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3716783

And this is the run …

… and the gmap-pedometer route: URL for this route is: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3716836

Haven’t actually cleared these proposed routes with P, but I’m sure he’ll be ok with it. The bike loop is pretty close to exactly 15 miles, and with minimal turns required. And there aren’t too many ways to construct a .33-mile swim and 3.3-mile run in that area.