What the heck is a brick???

[adt216]

I am a very new to duathlons and someone in another thread mentioned that I should try to use bricks once a week. Can someone explain to me what a brick is? What I do with it and where I can get one?

[Lise]

Sad to say, you can't get one, you have to do one!

A brick is when you do two parts of your race back to back, in training. For you, a duathlete, that would be running then biking, or biking then immediately running. It's an opportunity to practice that challenging transition of using your muscles to do one thing, and then immediately doing another.

Welcome to the Triathlon board! Lise

[btchance]

What Lise said. Word of warning though, your legs will feel completely weird the first few times you do bricks, just fight through it and it will go away, I promise! and the more you do them (I try to do one per week), the easier it gets. Good luck, and welcome aboard

[Running Mommy]

Yep! There is a reason why they call them BRICKS!! It's the feeling in your legs the first few paces you take after getting off your bike and running!
But they DO get easier!! They really do!!

[Veronica]

I thought it was something you shouldn't throw if you lived in a glass house.

V.

[chickwhorips]

I thought it was something you shouldn't throw if you lived in a glass house.

V.

no those are stones.

even though i'm not doing tris or dus can i still do this just to get in better shape? or will it hurt more than help?