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stripes welcome! All tri people are so so friendly!!
Trog, yep more than likely going to go for Concorde, it fits in with all my other stuff, here I come! And I will want to knock a bit of time off....
Shame there wasn't a tri 21/9 near Tenby, I will be on my hols there then!
It's been a bit quiet in here - has everybody been busy reading and being inspired by the tales of IM France - I know I have.
I did my first non-stop 1k swim in the pool on Tuesday and was dead chuffed to do it in under 21 minutes - not earth-shattering but good by my standards! Then on Wednesday I took part in the local 5k fun run/race and ended with a PB. So all in all a good week
! Nothing too major planned for the weekend, but I'm hoping to do a couple of long cycle rides next week/weekend.
What's everyone else up to?
Blimey Wabo - under 8 minute miles is good stuff, I'm still dreaming of that (I'm currently stuck at just under 8 1/2 minute miles). Good luck getting home tonight - I'm on the bus thank goodness as the skies have just opened
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Good luck for Sunday!
errr.......
2.32 miles in 18 minutes so
1 mile in (18 / 2.32) = 7.75 minutes
where has my maffs gone wrong
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I haven't been doing anything unusual really - bit of running, bit of biking, bit of tri club. I am on the Tri club list of people for what sounds like a seriously wacky tri - It's a team event, with 4 people going together, they do swim/bike/run, run/swim/bike, bike/run/swim or something like that over a very short distance for each leg and 5 minutes in-between each three
It might have been nice as a relay, but it isn't, we do it together somehow. All 4 of us swim, we all draft each other on the bikes, and we all run. Then we do it twice more.
I can see the flaw in this, because they're going to leave me for dead on bikes and I'll probably do the same to them on the run.
Argggggggggggghhhhhhhhh
Pedal! Pedal!
Morning all,
I'm just back from tri club swim session. We were focussing on the catch section of the stroke - and I managed to get cramp in my wrist which was a first!
ATM I think an IM would be just a step too far. I was originally thinking of going as far as Oly distance next year, and I also appear to have agreed to do the swim leg of a half IM as part of a relay team
! I'm also kind of tempted to have a go at a Half IM (all parts). I don't suppose it is possible to enter a half IM in both the relay *and* the individual? Anybody heard of anybody doing that? (I guess it would only work for the swim leg!)
Pethead - seriously wacky sounds like good fun: although drafting on the bike scares the life out of me! Drafting in the swimming pool is much more fun as long as the person in front doesn't kick too much - in which case it becomes a remake of the film "The abyss"!!!
A Half sounds great, RA * and PSC will be able to give you a first-hand account really soon. Are you tapering, now, PS? * Any foreign travel involved?
I got the chance of company on a 66k bike ride , yesterday, and that was great fun...except that the weather was absolutely awful. And today, a rest day because of a change in schedule, it's lovely and sunny.
I'm very tempted to go for a run but rest's the more sensible thing. Tomorrow might well be the day I swim 25 m, front crawl. * Yes, that's metres. * Or star on 'The Abyss' remake...
Have good day swimming/biking/running, everyone.
I reckon Me/ATM/Hanneke could make a good relay team for something like Half-IM - I swim, ATM bikes, Hanneke runs?
Ah ,I'm slow , Pethead. Must knit myself a road-bike...and pedal faster.
Today was not the day I swam a length
:Thursday, Thursday...
You could always have my bike, it's quite fast although I can never ride long distances.
Good luck with the length! It'll come!
Hi All
Been mad busy for a few days work wise but had great training weekend - need to share my happiness with someone
Got proper bike shoes and SPD pedals and had hubby realign my bike seat - OMG what a difference! Really enjoyed my first full hour out on the bike. Weather fab too
Made up for depressing swimming lesson on Thurs last week when coach took my stroke apart. Thought I was swimming ok but now feel v ungainly, slow and unbalanced
Know I have to practice and it will come.
Am upping training now to fit in swim plus run or bike if possible so today was swim practice at lunch (bit better not much) and then 10k road run along sea front this evening. Legs felt heavy - could have been after effects of bike ride yesterday.
Am feeling positive though as generally feeling stronger and fitter each week (10 weeks to go to first tri )
I've got SPD pedal-envy...even though I don't know what they are. But I certainly know a happy biker when I see one.
Enjoy your improved performance crazyH. *Rather envious of the fab weather, too. *
ATM... if they're road SPDs (rather than MTB ones) they should look something like this...
there are different types obviously...
found this link and didn't know where to post it and a ATM suggested here, was wondering if THIS here would be any good to any of you.
Jeff
http://www.runriderun.com
click events then look at the Activio London Tri-it bit
Ok folks, numpty TR is 2 weeks away from his first Tri - I got lots of numbers and a wristband through the post today - not sure what to do with them all yet.
It says in the blurb that draftbusters* will be out on the course. So, in simple terms what can I and can't I do to avoid being busted especially when overtaking and being overtaken (not that thats going to happen !)
* I thought these were snake or sausage dog style stuffed animals that Grandma used to put behind the front door on a windy day.
Basically, No Drafting means you can't follow in another racer's slipstream too closely. You should leave them a "box" around them which is supposed to be 15m front-back and 3m left-right. If you do want to overtake, you have 15 seconds to make progress through their "box," and they then have 15 seconds to drop back out of your "box." And vice versa of course.
Got a wetsuit today - Only a very cheap TWF shorty, but it's a good fit and I'm now less nervous about my open-water swim.
Nam - thanks. Not sure that Tim Don has anything to worry about yet though.