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If the swim is your weak point then this is the easiest to overcome...the swim part is very small and you can swim often without knackering yourself and you make big steps ......once the technic comes the distance is fairly easy to build up........
if the run part is your weakness that can be worked on to run/walk.
if your bike is weak then you have a harder job but it can be done if you work hard..
If all 3 parts are weak then you have to fully commit and want it as this is the hardest group
I couldn't swim FC when I entered my first - loads of time.
I could do with a running mentor/coach at the mo. Or a someone with a hob nail boot. Either works!
Taser Kaz?
That'd do!
The missus works shifts now - I am just sleep deprived
I emailed yesterday for entry dates next year and got this....
These should be open August/September, provisional dates for the races are 1 June and 27 July.
Do they always have 2 provisional dates?
1st June is for the half,
27th July for the full
Hmmm .. could be up for a Nice/Notts double
Thanks FF and sorry, thought they were both on the same day.
Do lots of peeps do both then?
I'd do a bit of relaying.
Ultra Kaz PM me with your problem I may be able to give some advice!
Msgd you.
*Will I ever get the hang of negotiating my way round this site? Really not sure I like the changes*
Meldy's Misfits (blame Rafi)
lots do both or do a different half in the build up............its a good way to guage fitness.and to practise transitions etc
are they the definate dates now for next year?
no not yet.just provisional
A couple of years back they did have to muck about with the dates because of one of the local authorites was giving then the mess around but hopefully the dates can be relied on.
they have stated provisional as that stupid little bike race has mucked up their normal date
Bit of a pain with IMUK on the 20th of July next year, a little too close...
But 1st of June for the half could be good for me.
both fit for me and if they are the dates then its a year tomorrow folks
ah, seren I had forgotten about that and wondered why it was going to be so late! Mind you, that date is better for me as I can stay up for everyone to finish and won't have work the next day!!
better for me as my daughter will have finished school for the year, so after a dnf this year I better bloody finish next year so she can cross the finish line with me.
(I wonder if I followed you up Oxton Bank - when it started levelling off did someone ask you if that was the hill ?)
TJ do you need a mentor to be your virtual kick up the ass?
Parkrun #2 for me this morning. Dear god don't tell me I'm being lured away from the Dark Side?!
Kaz.......i have started back on parkruns as improving my 5k time and marathon time seem to go side by side
I know it's a hard event but there are a lot of preachy posts here. I am a crap swimmer, I did less than 20 swims in the 2 years since my last Outlaw, I did 1 ride over 60 miles and I buggered my run fitness with an injury a few months before this year's race. I still finished in 14.09. If you're a bit stubborn and eat at every feed station you can do this. I'm in for next year, btw. This time I'm going to attend the tri club I've joined for years (but never been) and learn how to swim fast. 1.40 means you are nowhere for the start of the proper race.
That's part of the thinking for doing it - now the weight loss isn't likely to bring any real improvement that is! Still got to find over two minutes to be in PB territory but as today was c90 seconds faster than last week it's hopefully not too much of a stretch