So, currently working on refreshing the
www.pirateshipoffools.co.uk website.
Nothing radical is happening - all the existing text content will remain - only the site will look a bit different. Just want to make it easier to update plus keep it up to date and therefore more useful. Had hoped to sort it earlier in the year but I've been too lazy - so looks like it won't be much use for this season.
So, if anyone has any thoughts or links or anything really then let us know on here or via email.
Watch this space.
Comments
the FAQs could follow the themes of:
Kit - what do you really need to get going?
OW training/swimming - seems to be a fiar amount of chat about this.
Racing - unravel the myths of registration, transition, etc.
Training - how to train for multi discipline and maintain a life too (obviously excludes IM pirates). Benefits of brick training... something more than a recent post offered which read "swim a bit, bike alot, run alot!!" Although I was PMSL at that thought.
PSOF - how to join the PSOF
PSOF kit - link to Holly's store! And updates on latest orders..
Races - recomendations for good Piraty type days out!
Nutrition - dispell the myths - can you do a sprint on takeaways and 10 pints of Watneys Red Barrel.
As a newbie (first tri this coming w/e) I have found all of the Pirate advice I've received so far has been absolutely brilliant, and this would pull it all together! Hats off to you for voluteering to freshen up the site - I can anticipate a fair bit of work in doing that!
hope that helps....
PSC there is already a list of FAQs on the current website, and most of the questions you've asked have answers if you search the various threads on Tri appropriately.
plus i don't see any reason why being an IM pirate should stop you having a life!
No one told me that when I signed up!
yeah, Claire's really got her work cut out :-)
I'm also going to try to extract the useful info from the threads. I'm sure we've covered most topics to do with bikes on the numpty IM bike thread at least ten times.
But if you don't make things easier/faster/less effort etc in training, just think how fast you'll be in the actual race ;-)
Colin
JD if you want my IMAZ report for the website I can send it to you in a word document.
most pirates are a bit disasterous a lot of the time, so i wouldn't worry - by that description it sounds like you'd fit right in.
also should say if anyone doesn't want their reports, links to their photo album's of races etc or anything to do with them on the site then let me know! i'll remove it straight away no questions asked. i know not everyone (me included) likes stuff about them on the net (or at least doesn't want it on an easily accessible website even though it's buried deep in an inaccessbile difficult to search rw thread) and a few have had issues in the past.
Or shall I get the knitting needles out?
Will ping you offline with more ideas - wink wink ;-)
I shall be a yellow-and-black-lycra-clad landlubber for now.
(With bonus points for buying my kids a pirate ship paddling pool.)
I've entered the Warwickshire Sprint, so I'm barely dipping my toe in the water, but it's what funds will allow. IM will follow, once the kids have left home...
you doing a mara this year? im doing leicester, i was going to do the niagra falls but apparently leicester is more scenic, and slightly cheaper.
Just do IM Nice next year, easy innit! :0)
and yes include the ranking, especially as i got some points the other month.
we might need to hold a recount