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MARS Triathlon, Matlock - £6 to enter!
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I might start taking the kids to Moorways this winter - the girls are quite into running, well sometimes anyway, not sure if it clashes with Brownies though.
I've filled the entry form in. I do, however, need to look at again in the cold light of day tomorrow before I actually make my final decision and send it off. And make sure my support team is willing to get up early enough! Matlock's only an hour away from me, but I like to get to events in plenty of time, so we are looking at a V. V. early start.
Pops -I don't swim very well, or bike very well and I've only been running again six weeks - is that an issue? LOL.
Regarding what to wear - I've only done one pool tri. I wore my Sportjock bra (well, it's practically a crop top, so hardly indecent) and some tri shorts bought especially for the event. If you can manage to get some, they are great. Thin material and a thin, fast drying pad for cycling. Although not at all flattering for the tubbier amongst us (that would be me!). Then I pulled on a sleeveless bike jersey after the swim, and socks & bike shoes, then in T2 I changed bike shoes for running shoes. No way could I bike or run without shoes. Personally, I even take the time to put cycling gloves on - I find my hands blister and bruise quite easily as I hold on for dear life.
"One person will start at a time at intervals of 1 minute which will be allocated on receipt of your entry "
"Each competitor will start from in the shallow end of the pool and will complete 12 lengths (400m). Your lengths will be counted for you"
If one person goes off ever 60 secs and I'm looking at doing it in 8 minutes (I'll be lucky) you could have 7-8 people in the lane at anyone time, more if you're slower and that's a bit crowded.
Not too bad if they're all the same pace but
that wont be the case.
LMH - MTB with only 5 gears? is that 5 on the back and 3 on the front?
When I did IM Lanzarote, I put a 13-26 on the back which meant I could get up the hills a bit easier, I'd think a ordinary road bike might have a slightly different set up making climbing a little tougher definately tougher than a MTB with a granny ring.
I don't remember braking much if at all on any of the decents and I couldn't go any faster because of my gears.
I did a tri in Burnley and they had 6 lanes with 4 to a lane but all roughly the same speed going of at 5 second intervals, so that wasn't too bad, I was 4th but passed 2 and 3 and got on the feet of 1 and swam a really quick time. then when you were all out the next group started.
Chirk and Denbigh tri's have swimmers going off at intervals were at my pace you wouldn't have more than 3 in a lane at a time and that was for no more than 1 length. Slower swimmers did end up with quite a few in their lanes though.
I've heard of tri's were you swim 4 or 6 lengths in one lane then go under the rope and swim 4 or 6 lengths in the next lane and so on until you get out at the other end of the pool.
No rules about pushing, at Denbigh a man pushed his bike back 6 miles from the turn around and still went on to the run and finished, madness.
I'd assumed that they'd grade the swimmers by expected finish time and start people off in one minute intervals with groups of people who'd declared the same sort of time - or am I showing my ignorance again.
Talking of bitten by the bug (or incredibly excessive nerves) I dreamt about this last night!
BUT, be warned, I have done swim counting with 10 peeps in the lane at one time before at Southwell. It can be pot luck as to how many you share the lane with.
Why not mail the organiser to get clarification(sp).
you will swim lengths staring in Lane 1 - everyone - and you will end up with a number of swimmers in each lane - at the end of however many lengths they say, you will duck under the lane marker and continue in the next lane and so on until you finish........
be realistic in your swim times as there's nothing worse than havin to go past many swimmers who are slow and have been overrealistic with their estimates as it slows you down as well.....
and don't stop at the walls as that just causes chaos.........tumble turns are usually NOT allowed.........
have fun
Have just rung bike shop to see about getting my bike serviced but they want to charge me 3 x what I paid for the bike. Think this is because they're a 'proper' shop and not for bike numpties like me. As I'm really only worried about the brakes working and having the gears checked would it be ok to get somewhere like Halfords to do this?
The best place in Derby to take a bike to have work done is Holts on Nightingale Rd (near Moorways). They are really cheap and do the work very quickly.
My legs were spinning 19 to the dozen coming down the A615. There was a set of tempoarary traffic lights at the bottom of the hill in Tansley, I'm assuming they'll be gone in 2 weeks.
Marshallini - hubby says he's not getting up at silly o'clock to watch so he's going to do it too:-)
Sent my entry off today...
Does anyone think that slicks will make enough difference to my time over ten miles to make them worth £30? As I'm <<uhum>> rather unlikely to be challenging for the lead I'm thinking that the lock laces and bike service might suffice on outlay?
And if you're only changing shoes once, lock laces might not be worth the effort (although they are cheap). I have never used them on my running shoes in a tri - I tried them but found my shoes just didn't feel the same as when laced by hand. And I can do my laces up pretty fast if I have to.
Quimby - going back to uni in three weeks so £30 is quite a lot tbh.
Can anyone help me out with swim etiquette? I was in the pool this evening and thought of how spoilt I am - there were 4 in the lane and that was crowded - what do you do if there is someone who is slightly slower and you're swimming on their heels - or if someone is doing the same to you? I didn't have the speed to go smoothly past the guy tonight but he was holding me up considerably.
I bought some of the elastic ones, I think they cost £4.99, you can get the same elastic for 30p a meter in camping shops and the cord lock things are about 30p each.
Or you can just put the cord locks on normal laces, but for the sake of 10 seconds it takes to tie a bow, it's not really worth it unless you're 10 secs behind the leader.
Swim etiquette, is, as far as I'm aware, if you're swimming up behind some who is slower you give their feet a touch and they should let you through at the next turn, I doubt most novices/people are aware of this and would probably just ignore you.
A quick recap LMH...
You're rubbish at swimming and it makes you lose feeling in your fingers....
You can't change a tyre so if you get a puncture you're shot....
To cap it all you're not too sure about the run because of your knees.
In conclusion I think you should give it up as a bad idea and come to Grimesthorpe where you will get valuable training for the Patagonia relays.
;o)
Entry form completed.
Next munpty question - do you take a towel to the pool to pick up as you go from there to transition? I can hear triatheletes all over the land spluttering into their coffee as they read the latest silly question.