which club are you? can't remember whether you're Harriers or Chasers! (or quite poss neither!)
Lizzy - if you wanted to enter, someone was offering places in their team on tri-talk... cos of the clash with London, quite a few clubs seem to be short of people this year. Women's and mixed races are morning, men's in the afternoon on Saturday.
Snail, almost right! I was a Mornington Chaser (still am second claim in fact), but when I moved out of London I joined FVS Tri, who are also an affiliated running club.
I'll keep an eye out for you on Saturday and come over to say hi if I can fight my way though all the swarming Serpies!
Well, I'll look out for you too - what's your kit? Are you in a men's or mixed team? I'll be racing in the morning, of course, but will be watching the guys in the afternoon.
Most enjoyable event yesterday. Shame the weather wasn't quite as good as last year (really was quite chilly when the sun went in) but looks like I managed to catch the sun a bit anyway. Swim wasn't too bad, bike was good fun despite the headwind on the far side, and I enjoyed the run as had plenty of targets to overtake :-)
Snail, looked out for you, but there were vast amounts of Serpies everywhere so didn't see you.
I also saw the spotty guys - standing right next to us - but couldn't really identify FFM from his photo and like M, didn't want to ask for 'Fastest Fat Man'!
venom, I also looked out for you but didn't see you at all! Realised I don't actually know what M looks like... Yes, there were 40 or so Serpies, so great fun. I had a cr@p swim though, got weed tangled round my neck going round that first buoy, panicked and didn't recover. It was my first OW tri, I got my wetsuit only three weeks ago and have been on hols for 2 weeks, so didn't have time to practise. I knew it was going to be tough but I hadn't even considered the possibility of weed and didn't know how to deal with it. Urrrggghhhh! Glad that's over. Bike was good, but I was rubbish on the run. No more rubbish than usual, but I'm not a good runner!
My leg seems to be fine, I ran on the grass all the way and that helped. I went for a run yesterday and it's ok so I'll just see how it goes...
Are any of you guys doing Concorde next weekend? I'm looking forward to that one a bit more - no weed in a pool swim!
Think the best bit of the swim (in retrospect) was when I'd got so dizzy and disorientated that all I could remember was "keep the buoys on the right" - so I did, and went round... and round... those canoeists were fab! Particularly the one who was trying so hard not to laugh as he told me I was heading back the way I'd come - he then gave me my very own escort back to the shore cos I couldn't see a bloomin' thing. Everything was swimming except for me...
BigBob was particularly impressive though. We did notice that by the afternoon you'd perfected your T1 salutes to the grandstand!
I did have a great day, and am definitely up for next year. Hopefully by then I'll be a little more experienced and have done just a bit more training!!! I think I'm going to fill my bath with aquatic plants and practise submerging myself in it. Or swim with a knife between my teeth next time!
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LizzyB (Nottingham)
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which club are you? can't remember whether you're Harriers or Chasers! (or quite poss neither!)
Lizzy - if you wanted to enter, someone was offering places in their team on tri-talk... cos of the clash with London, quite a few clubs seem to be short of people this year. Women's and mixed races are morning, men's in the afternoon on Saturday.
I'll keep an eye out for you on Saturday and come over to say hi if I can fight my way though all the swarming Serpies!
Well, I'll look out for you too - what's your kit? Are you in a men's or mixed team? I'll be racing in the morning, of course, but will be watching the guys in the afternoon.
Naturally, I have already apologised to my 3 team mates......
I'm fine to race, but I probably won't be pushing that sprint finish on the run!
Snail, looked out for you, but there were vast amounts of Serpies everywhere so didn't see you.
Looking forward to this again next year!
ffm - we saw the coventry tri spotty banner but didn't really know how to approach the group given we didn't know your name :-(
snail - hope you guys had a good one - there seemed to be serpies everywhere! errrm - hope the tibia is ok? fractured but ok to race on????
venom, I also looked out for you but didn't see you at all! Realised I don't actually know what M looks like... Yes, there were 40 or so Serpies, so great fun. I had a cr@p swim though, got weed tangled round my neck going round that first buoy, panicked and didn't recover. It was my first OW tri, I got my wetsuit only three weeks ago and have been on hols for 2 weeks, so didn't have time to practise. I knew it was going to be tough but I hadn't even considered the possibility of weed and didn't know how to deal with it. Urrrggghhhh! Glad that's over. Bike was good, but I was rubbish on the run. No more rubbish than usual, but I'm not a good runner!
My leg seems to be fine, I ran on the grass all the way and that helped. I went for a run yesterday and it's ok so I'll just see how it goes...
Are any of you guys doing Concorde next weekend? I'm looking forward to that one a bit more - no weed in a pool swim!
Snail, don't be hard on yourself, you were great!! As was everybody else competing!!
Great weekend!!
Think the best bit of the swim (in retrospect) was when I'd got so dizzy and disorientated that all I could remember was "keep the buoys on the right" - so I did, and went round... and round... those canoeists were fab! Particularly the one who was trying so hard not to laugh as he told me I was heading back the way I'd come - he then gave me my very own escort back to the shore cos I couldn't see a bloomin' thing. Everything was swimming except for me...
BigBob was particularly impressive though. We did notice that by the afternoon you'd perfected your T1 salutes to the grandstand!
I did have a great day, and am definitely up for next year. Hopefully by then I'll be a little more experienced and have done just a bit more training!!! I think I'm going to fill my bath with aquatic plants and practise submerging myself in it. Or swim with a knife between my teeth next time!