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MARS Triathlon, Matlock - £6 to enter!
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I've just emailed them to see if I can get any more info about the swim and tranistions. As soo as I here anything I'll post it here.
LMH - Don't give it up as a bad idea until you've done at least one.
In one tri one slow/medium/fast/faster swimer was entered in so should finish about the same time.........
Hard to describe until you do it. Don't worry, it does work
Towel? When you go whizzing on the bike thats the drying off stage.
Marshallini - don't worry, Muzzy won't put me off. He was trying to recruit me for MoB last year! I know he doesn't mean it:-)
Slowest start first. The problems occur when people deliberately under estimate their swim time to get a better starting position.
....on the tyres front. I have just completed my first sprint tri. Someone from the Radio Worcestershire thread fitted road tyres to my MtB and I reckon they took over 10mins off my time over 20km - which meant I wasn't even last on the bike leg - defo worth it if you can find someone to fit them.
Muzzy - that would be nice thank you, have you decided to forgo Grimesthorpe and sherpa for me then?
Numpty question no.99. I intend to try some bike/run transitions on Thursday evening, how far do I need to cycle to get the feel of it?
The only (proper) brick session I've done recently was 30 min exercise bike then 2 miles treadmill. Expect it to be hard, but don't let it put you off - on the day itself the adrenaline helps. And keep telling yourself "it's only 5k...!"
Marshallini - does it replicate the real thing if you practise on the static bike and treadie or is it better to get out and do it?
I thought that as well before my first triathlon.
Oh! how little she knows. LOL
Ever run when you are drunk (and don't lie about never being drunk before), well that's generally what it is like.
Here is the comunication from the race organisers:
I'm glad you're looking forward to it - it should be a good do.
The swim. The people with the slowest estimated swim times will be setting
off first through to the fastest. Those who then enter on the day will get
the latest start times which has its disadvantages if you're not very fast.
There will be 7 lanes and people will stick to their allocated lane. This
means that only those who take more than 14 minutes (and there are very few
even those who put down 20 minutes don't generally take that long!) will
end up sharing a lane with more than one other person.
The footwear business is quite simple. There will be a supply of carrier
bags, sheets of A4 paper and a big pen at registration. All people need to
do is write their race number on the paper and put it in a carrier bag with
their running shoes. These will then be taken from the collection point to
the 2nd transition where they will be laid out alongside the path in
numerical order with the sheet of paper clearly on view with the shoes.
Someone will be "in charge" of the 2nd transition shoe change department who
will make sure that your cycling shoes are put with the sheets of paper for
collection by their rightful owner at the end.
I hope this answers all your questions. There will be plenty of instructions
in a general e-mail/mailshot to all entrants backed up by plenty of written
info on the day.
Keep training.
Karl.
My exercise bike/treadmill brick sessions at home are further enhanced by having to come down the stairs after the bike, when my muscles generally complain a lot at having to stretch again to get down the stairs. Should I ever enter a tri where T2 is downstairs from the bike, I am prepared!
Lane 1, swimmer 1, starts at 7.00am
lane 2, swimmer 1, starts at 7.01.....
lane 7, swimmer 1, starts at 7.07
lane 1, swimmer 2, starts 7.08
lane 2, swimmer 2, starts at 7.01.....
lane 1, swimmer 3, starts 7.15 etc etc.
Did a 400m time trial this lunchtime and have managed to knock 30s off my time since a month ago :-)
LMH - Grimesthorpe.
Marshallini/Quimby - thanks for the info. It's beginning to feel a little less scary (not sure if that's a good thing:-)
Muzzy - shame.
Collected my bike this afternoon and was told that the gears had been serviced but as they're rubbish anyway I shouldn't expect too much. However can someone please tell me how I should use my gears? Do you spend the majority of your time on the middle ring using gears 1 - 5, drop down to the granny ring for hills and go up to the top ring for downhills or have I got it totally wrong?
We drove round the cycle route today and I feel a little better, the hill goes on for a long time but isn't too, too steep generally and at least I know where the end is now!
Did my first transition after collecting my bike and you're all right, it feels quite strange but I was going faster than I thought.
I have been told to try and switch to a lower (easier) gear sooner rather than later when you hit an uphill. But this, for me, generally means I don't work as hard as I perhaps could, I just go granny and go up at a snail's pace!