Training for a shorter Tri

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  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    the forecast is for lots of sun!

  • mikasamikasa ✭✭✭

    Oooooh so exciting, can't wait to read all your race reports! image

    MC - probably the best decision. A big shame but health comes first.

    Question time: you can't really put P20 on if you have a pool swim? Need to slab some on in T1 to face and arms, legs don't really catch it in the same way.

    Went to register this evening as back early enough. So tomorrow I'll head straight to the pool for about 11.30 for 12.15 swim start. My leg still doesn't like running, will have to see how much walking I'll have to do in the run. Never mind, I'm finally gonna do another tri! : D
    Mud guards and pannier rack taken off bike, bf said now it only needs me to make it go faster. image

    London was good. Shame brits didn't win. Have to watch it on telly tomorrow and next time I've decided to buy grandstand tickets.

    GO PIRATES!!!!

  • SteadyCJSteadyCJ ✭✭✭

    P20 is very water resistant, it takes a while to absorb that is why I put it on before the start

  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    mikasa - good luck for tomorrow, don't worry about needing to walk, last year I mainly walked in the tris I did - couldn't run, no-one cares apart from you! There are bound to be others walking too

  • mikasamikasa ✭✭✭

    Steady - so you think it would be ok to put P20 before a pool swim? Just put it on early enough so it'll have time to absorb? 

    I need to go to bed...tired.

  • Go pirates!

    I send to you all the spirit of the haggis. Feel the haggis, be the haggis. The haggis slides throught the water like a silvery swimmy thing, it runs the hills, it does not know tiredness, it out runs the dawn and outswims the tide. You are the haggis!

    That's enough spiritual shite JFDI!

    And I want to see well written reports, no spelling or punctuation errors. And that you enjoy yourselves. 

  • Good luck Mikasa and steady! Nowt wrong with walking - saw lots of it today at Brecon sprint. 

    My Nan died yesterday so wasnt really feeling it today but i went and tried my hardest for her. 1:31 for 4th in my age category (v40) and 16th lady overall (no idea how many there were). May do a proper race report tomorrow but feeling a bit emotional just now. 

  • Sorry for your loss Camlo. Well done on the 4th place.

    MC - I have asthma and exercise induced asthma which sometimes manifests during the swim. Totally random as to whether it does or doesn't so I take my meds and hope for the best!

    Go well mikasa. As long as you finish knowing you've done all that you could on the day you can do no more.

    If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
  • Anyone at the Outlaw Half know if Buttercup ok? Looking at lice results and can't find her! Others look to be out on bike! 

  • Sorry... Live results image

  • HappychapHappychap ✭✭✭

    Steady has finished.  And if the twitter picture is to be believed, she was rather happy image

  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    back from supporting at outlaw half, very hot out there today. All pirates finished fine, not sure why buttercup wasn't showing on the live tracker

    camlo - sorry for you loss, well done today, she would have been proud of you

  • Not long home. Short story - all absolutely fine until just after half way through swim when asthma started. Managed to finish the swim though it did take three stops with a safety canoe (allowed as no progress made during them). Walked through to T1 as breathing was bad. Was really, really cold (have heard lake was 15C) and shivering so much for the first half of the bike course that it felt as if my front wheel was loose. Eventually warmed up and passed loads and loads of people (unsurprising given the poor swim and T1), bike split was averaging 19mph for the first two hours but slowed a little after that, mainly due to the course I think, to finish with a 18.1mph average. T2 was an improvement and nearer my usual (2.06) and I managed to do the run (which is an accurately measured HM unusually) in 1.48.44 - not bad on half a lung. Finished in a disappointing 5.51.46. Unfortunately there then followed a considerable amount of time in the medical tent with a couple of nebulisers, steroids and some other drug I haven't heard of - think it began with an I and sounded a little like ibuprofen - and an enforced visit to A&E - where they took no further action.

    If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
  • mikasamikasa ✭✭✭

    Camlo - sorry for you loss. Great going in your tri though.

    Happy - that sound awesome times to me but it's all individual. Great work finishing though with all the asthma problems.

    Looking forward to hearing everyone's eace reports.

    Well done PIRATES you did it!!!!

  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    LMH - blimey, glad you are ok, 5:51 is a great time specially given your asthma problems. Hope you recover soon

  • Thanks guys - I lost at least ten minutes on the swim (usually swim 30 mins for 1900m) and a couple more in T1. Not sure how much more I can blame on the asthma image Would hope to be closer to 5.30 fully tapered and well. Fortunately recovery is usually pretty quick - rest day or 30 min easy swim tomorrow and then back to it but only Z2 stuff for a few days depending on peak flow.

    If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
  • Pants the asthma kicked in LMH, but well done for fighting through that and doing so well.

  • mikasamikasa ✭✭✭

    Here goes my race report for Crondall Super Sprint. 400m/20k/5k

    My swim time was 12:15pm so alarm was on for 8am. When did I wake up though? 6am! Stayed in bed though for another hour or so.

    Silly how I get nervous even though I'm just doing it for fun and I know I'm slow atm. However, most of it is just getting into the place in plenty of time and get everything sorted. No racks for the bikes outside the pool but plenty of wall space to lean them on. T1 very simple, sun glasses, helmet, shoes and socks,race belt.

    Swim
    Not nervous any more, just ready to go, chatting to people waiting on the line behind me. But for some reason I start way too fast and don't get into a nice rhythm (doing breast stroke). My breathing goes to pot and I'm struggling to settle down. So I do couple of strokes head up and stop at the ends couple of times. Not happy at all but trying to do my best, legs are getting tired. 2 people overtake me. image The worst swim I've ever had. This being my second tri. image

    Bike
    You have to walk out of the pool and that's just fine with me. Bike just couple of metres away. Bf is there to give me moral encouragement. I sit down, get socks and shoes on, race belt, helmet, have a drink and I'm off.
    I'm so glad I've not done the route before, it's very undulating with long steady climbs on a gradient that I find very hard. Not long after start there is one of these and a steeper bit and I just have to get off the bike to push for a bit and this is when I first get overtaken. There are some nice long down hills as well, on one of them a guy comes past but when it levels out, he doesn't start pedalling so I have to overtake him straight away. He eventually comes past again after about 5 mins. The bike route is very testing and I find it hard but I do manage to finish it. I get overtaken by about 7-10 times.

    T2 - nothing really to be done here as I'm wearing my trainers on the bike. Bike gets racked for you so a drink and I'm off for my run.

    Run
    Well, not really a run, more of a shuffle with lots of walk breaks in first and second loop. The start of the loop is slight incline and goes on for ever then down hill and flat to the finish. I manage to run most of the last (third) lap after the up hills and I'm so glad to finish!

    I'm not very pleased with my performance. Swim I felt was a bit of a disaster, bike was so hard and run even harder. But afterwards I'm happy I've done it and I can only get better with training. I was hoping to beat 2 hrs, but with that performance I was expecting over. Went to have a look at results on the screen after, it was quite light so I couldn't see it properly but bf thinks it was 1:38:10! If this is confirmed on the official results, I will be over the moon! Heard rumours the run was maybe bit shorter than 5k but don't know about bike or anything else. Anyway, onwards and upwards.

  • SteadyCJSteadyCJ ✭✭✭

    what a day, broke a tooth whilst managing to deal with the unfinished business of last year. I am now Billy no mates staying at the camp site. Need to find something to eat but not hungry.

  • SteadyCJSteadyCJ ✭✭✭

    Thanks to everyone for the support today and meeting more pirates.

  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    mikasa - well done!! Yes, it was hard, but you are only just getting back into it all. And it should feel hard! Massive well done

    Steady - you were great today and it was brill to see you finish! I had to leave DS and cake to escort you round because I needed to go to the loo!! Got to see buttercup and little clown finish

    worst part of the day was when cake hugged Alibear (nice to meet you Ali) and then offered some other guy a hug, the other guy looked at him but decided to hug me!!! Sweaty smelly hug with a random stranger....image it is one thing having a sweaty hug with a pirate, but some other random guy.....ah well, hopefully it didn't put him off the rest of his run image

  • mikasamikasa ✭✭✭

    Thanks MC. I was just feeling so so slow!

    And I have no idea what times I did for the swim, bike and run individually. My garmin is not waterproof so I didn't use it for the swim,then it didn't pick up the satellites until some way into the bike and then I just let it run for the last section. And I think the organisers just give you a total time.

    I'm not going to afford a 910xt but might go for 310xt before the Boar.

    How are you feeling MC?

  • mathschickmathschick ✭✭✭

    mikasa - doesn't matter how slow you are!

    feeling ok, glad I decided not to do it, it was the right decision, but still gutted really, though I do thoroughly enjoy the supporting. Shattered though. I was using the online tracker to try work out when buttercup and steady would go past us, but for some reason buttercup wasn't coming up, which was worrying...

     

  • mikasa - not doing it would have been the easy option and you didn't take it - which I think is a result in itself so well done! The 310xt is really cheap at the minute and a nice piece of kit but little use if like me you forget to press the lap buttons at the right time or stop it until you've been in the medical tent for at least half an hour......... fortunately a complete set of result sand splits up on the website with added fun stats if you click on your name.

    Was really nice to meet you DS - hope I wasn't to manic/anti social - I'm not usually at my best before a race image

    I must have seen you MC - I recognised Jordy - but really couldn't utter a word whilst running, it would have started me off coughing and once that had happened there would have been no way back.

    Didn't realise you were staying over on your own Steady - hope you find some company/somewhere nice to go and that the tooth is easily fixed.

    If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
  • LMH - not at all, it was great to meet you. image

  • mathschick wrote (see)

    mikasa - well done!! Yes, it was hard, but you are only just getting back into it all. And it should feel hard! Massive well done

    Steady - you were great today and it was brill to see you finish! I had to leave DS and cake to escort you round because I needed to go to the loo!! Got to see buttercup and little clown finish

    worst part of the day was when cake hugged Alibear (nice to meet you Ali) and then offered some other guy a hug, the other guy looked at him but decided to hug me!!! Sweaty smelly hug with a random stranger....image it is one thing having a sweaty hug with a pirate, but some other random guy.....ah well, hopefully it didn't put him off the rest of his run image

    image He didn't want to hug me. image

    Good day today girls and germ's some excellent racing from all in nottingham, far to much to say in one post but enjoyed watching you slug it out and didn't see a grumpy face even through some some folks where thinking funk this at one point on the inside.

    Steady didn't realise your at the camp on your tod. Get yourself to the bar at hpp if you havn't already some of the useral suspect's will be there tonight no doult. One step are probably just fineshed packing up and getting some well deserved drinks in.

    Camlo sorry for your loss. We all have to go at some time and it's what we leave behind that counts. Hope your ok and remembering the good times you've had with you nan and not focusing on the loss.

    Mikasa fantastic work kid. Well done It's not the races where everything goes well that are the most useful sometimes it's races where it all goes to pot or one part of it goes badly. It's one thing for tools like me to say plan for this or this might happen keep carm and carry on. It's quite a different thing to be there and do it and keep doing it. You've probably going to learn more from today than anything you might have picked up from this site in the last year. Why did you think your breathing wasn't the best for the swim was it just nerves or something else?

    These is no need to be disapointed about today. You fineshed and you can build on your experiances. As you said onwards and upwards.

  • HappychapHappychap ✭✭✭

    Pixie work on speeding up your cadence slightly and leg strength and you'll be whizz ing up the hills in no time.  Regular Spin works really well for both of these things.  

    If you move to a compact it can help as you'll no longer have granny to call on as the easier option.  Triple sets on road bikes are unnecessary (IMO) unless you are planning to cycle up Everest. image

  • yeah, you lot are ace!

    Mikasa, I got my breathing wrong in my last swim...I think I was too pumped up and my adrenaline levels too high...I couldn't calm down...

    Steady!  what do you mean lost a tooth?!

    LMH, sounds like a shivery swim, you kept going and finished which is the main thing...and remember that ramp it up when anyone asks what you did at the weekend...

    I noticed on facebook the last finisher was a pirate...it's that never say stop spirit.

     

    well done everyone

  • Pixie - I have a triple on my road bike as I use that for hilly courses but have a compact on my TT bike. If you struggle climbing then why not have the gears available? Sorry HC but my opinion is why make it harder and potentially demoralising if you don't have to? I would really recommend a visit to LL in Breaston but a couple of this have said that before so I'm guessing you're happier with Evans image

    To be honest pete I'd rather just forget all about it.

    If you think you can or you think you can't you're probably right.
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