Individual Sports II

The subject individual sports the this IInd directed the education of the triatlón, a combination of three sports (swimming, cycling and career afoot) in the same competition and without pauses. The first organized triatlón that knows itself, arose from spontaneous form in 1974, in San Diego (The United States; Ruiz, 2006). In the year 2000, in sydney (Australia), the début of the triatlón took place in the Olympic Games. The subject individual sports the this IInd directed the education of the triatlón, one Nevertheless, in 1875 the Baron Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic Games, already had publicized the need to rely on a sport that it should combine the swimming, the cycling and the athletics (COE, 2004). The motives that have led us to studying the sport of the Triatlón are: 1. The fact that it is a sport of recent creation in comparison with the majority of the sports studied in the scientific and formative investigation. 2. The perfect identification with the signs of identity of the UA: He identifies with the geographical environment and climatic Mediterranean conditions. The sustainable development of the physical and sports activities in the nature and the innovation and development of the new sports. 3. Because in the national and international context the triatlón is positioned as a sport in growth which development allows a labor future the futures classified in sciences of the sport.

Course will consist of 60hrs of in class work and 90 hrs of independent work outside the classroom.

Course includes field work.