I've been training someone up on the marafun front for a bit and after a few false starts they want to do Edinburgh marathon. Looks like I'm heading up north this weekend. Depending on trains I might stop off Saturday afternoon and abuse Calf through.
I'm in no position to be entering anything that would be a huge financial committment due to the current work insecurity etc, but I think I can just about afford the entry for this.
Same here LB. But I'm going to enter and I plan on camping so we'd better get our act together. I love this race and I've got a cr@p time to beat but I've not done much swimming or biking for the last 6 months. Don't suppose it will make much difference though...............training is over rated isn't it? hehehe.
No secret call needed, LB - I'm sure I've been outed already
I already cycle to work but I cannot swim for toffee, and I'm broke. So I am loitering until either of these problems resolve. I did try to teach myself front crawl over the last couple of days, and it went quite well
Look forward to meeting you there Frodo. Can you swim breast stroke? You might be able to manage 500m by May if you mix up a bit of breast stroke with front crawl, or you might be able to do it all crawl if you are quick learner. Its a very newbie friendly event with no pressure on finish time which is why I love it. If you look at past results you will see that there are plenty of slow swimmers.
Edit - I did my first 2 tris all breast stroke and wasn't last at either of them. I wasn't the only one either and at Stratford one man walked bits of the swim. Yes, walked the swim.
I haven't ruled out entering - but I currently have the Sandstone Trail 33miler in the diary for the Saturday. I don't think attempting my first tri the day after would be wise but, if that doesn't happen for any reason, I may come along to play properly. Should know for definite in the next couple of weeks
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Yeah!
Me will do it!
I like the abuse from SA!
Signed up to this. This will be my first ever triathlon, its certainly marketed towards newbies.
I went to spectate last year and thought. yeah.. i can do that.... just need to remember how to ride a bike now.
boing!!!!
I've been looking all over for this and it was in events not tri. I'll see if I can get it moved if Caz doesn't mind.
So who's still up for this?
Same here LB. But I'm going to enter and I plan on camping so we'd better get our act together. I love this race and I've got a cr@p time to beat but I've not done much swimming or biking for the last 6 months. Don't suppose it will make much difference though...............training is over rated isn't it? hehehe.
I haven't the time to improve my swimming or my biking to be honest.
I don't expect I'll need SA screaming at me to shift my fat arse this year on the run though as it's only 3 miles and I've put 200 in already...
But I hope he does anyway because it gives me the horn...
(Curious to see what this tri lark is all about... )
*uses the secret call to alert the pirates to a potential new recruit*
<waits for vulchers to start circling>
Oh Frodo - what have you said??
I already cycle to work but I cannot swim for toffee, and I'm broke. So I am loitering until either of these problems resolve. I did try to teach myself front crawl over the last couple of days, and it went quite well
Look forward to meeting you there Frodo. Can you swim breast stroke? You might be able to manage 500m by May if you mix up a bit of breast stroke with front crawl, or you might be able to do it all crawl if you are quick learner. Its a very newbie friendly event with no pressure on finish time which is why I love it. If you look at past results you will see that there are plenty of slow swimmers.
Edit - I did my first 2 tris all breast stroke and wasn't last at either of them. I wasn't the only one either and at Stratford one man walked bits of the swim. Yes, walked the swim.