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MARS Triathlon, Matlock - £6 to enter!
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Good luck to you all.
No tri shorts yet, had better think of a plan B.
And a quick thanks for all the newbie questions, I'm getting ready for my first Tri next month so your questions and all of the helpful answers have been very helpful.
I look forward to reading how it went!
There should definitely be a sticky thread with the top 50 newbie questions and answers
Now I have to decide between starting just before 06.45 or after 9.00. Much as I would like a lie in, it'd be nice to be finished early!
Am really quite excited now. Will be in a red/white cycling top on a red dawes bike if anyone wants to come and say hi!
Bexmanc - go for the early slot - at least you know you'll have company on the bike ride then, I'd worry about not seeing anyone else if I started late, as it is I know I'm going to be passed by loads of people:-) Do you have your number?
Very impressed at all the swimming practice people have been doing. I think I need to follow suit!
Initially I was going to follow your example and have a go at the Matlock Tri, but I thought I needed a bit more time so decided on the Derby Tri in mid September instead. I've also had delays on getting my new bike and I hear they're quite an important bit of kit for these Triathalon thingies.
If I wasn't on call for work I would turn up and wave a Pirate flag at you and the other forum members participating.
Bexmanc - way to go!
Mew bike arrives Monday / Tuesday so I'll have a couple of weeks to get some practice in before Derby. If I were to have attempted Matlock the best I could muster would have been a unicycle, although that would have been a grand and novel entry into the world of Triathlon.
17 - Not Greased Lightning
21 - Little Miss Happy
46 - Quimby
50 - mark*w (Mr LMH)
68 - marshallini
Ever so slightly nervous now it's down in print!
SB - <1 hour for a first 10k is really good. Think I'll be pushing a 40min 5k on Monday with legs of jelly after those hills!
Where did you order your tri shorts from? I think I might invest in a pair.
Also (and I'm sure this is a very stupid question!) but do we have to register in our swimming stuff so that they can write the number on our leg? Not too keen about wandering around in very little at 6.30am!
Heading off to the pool later to try out my new goggles :-)
Good luck with the list writing! (Is there a standard must have list for a tri? Sure I'll forget something really vital!)
I put down 8 mins on my entry form for the swim and was thinking that might've been a bit optimistic, but I've just got back from a swim and I managed a 7.29.61 and a with 2 minutes rest a 7.47.96, nowhere near my best of 6:20 from 5 years ago but I'm happy, my goggles were ok as well.
Bexmanc - I'll be registering well before my start time and just rolling up my trouser leg to be numbered, but unless you can park real close to the pool and change in your car at the last minute I think there will be a lot of people wandering around Matlock semi naked.
Oooh it's getting close now.
I haven't done another swim time trial since last week, but I reckon I might manage under 9 mins as there's less turns than in a 25m pool. Depends how hot the pool is, though - I can't stand it too hot, it affects my breathing.
Off to peruse a variety of tri race checklists on the web and enhance my lists. You shall recognise me arriving at the race by the estate car packed as though for a fortnight's camping trip.
There is always the possibility that your swim cap will be numbered instead of your person. If in doubt, ask the organiser.
Thanks Bex, the whole running straight off the bike thing is going to be fun, are there lots of hills on the course at Matlock? i think that would finish me off.
I would definitely recommend tri shorts, I've been swimming amd running in mine and they are surprisingly comfortable.
Thanks for the shorts recommendation. I'll check out Decathalon tomorrow incase they have some and if not I'll put in an order with the website LMH recommended.
Quimby - If I pack swim suit, goggles, change of clothes, bike, helmet and trainers do you think that'll do. Not sure i'll be up to remembering much more!
It's been 2 years since I cycled either of the Bala courses and only 2 weeks since I was in Matlock so my memory might be playing tricks but;
The Bala standard/olympic distance bike course is not that hilly, I'd say it was more undulating, there's nothing on it which is as bad as the climb from Lea. I managed to average a speed of over 19mph and if I could do that on Monday I'd be well happy.
The middle distance course has one long hill on it near the start and then it's downhill untill you rejoin the standard/olympic [undulating] course back in to Bala.
Yes, That means it's fixed firmly in my sights too
I think it's a natural progression - at least we'll all be in the same boat!
or the standard/olympic - swim 1500m, bike 40k, run 10k.
Don't get me wrong neither are the easiest bike courses, but they hold nothing to be affraid of.
I've just been practicing my tranistions and I've decided to go for the shoes already in the pedals approach, something I haven't done in a race before and I'm going to wear the tri suit as well (eeeek!)
Bexmanc - I think we have to swim, being in a boat is probably a no-no.
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