I've had a look on some of the tri websites mentioned but most of the events listed seem to be duathlons, and I have no idea about which events you can enter as a team...
Mildly curious about entering a tri sometime next year as a team with my little brothers. Youngest brother v keen (his team just came 7th/133 in Portugal, and he thinks he's a 'triathlon god' at the moment) older one not so - but can be replaced with boyfriend!
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relay: one event each
relay: all do each event consecutively
time trial: all do each event together
Team Darkside trampled* all over the opposition at the last one.
* kinda
http://www.teammk.com/
This is the Milton Keynes Tri Team (I will be joining shortly), they have event listings on the website.
I meant one event each, though I wouldn't mind doing a whole tri myself at some point.
Only thing that puts me off is the outside swimming, particularly the London Tri. I used to row on the Royal Docks, and the number of injections we had to have before we could go ON the water has really put me off going IN it! And besides, I know what the rowers do there ;-)
Go for it!!
I might even have a go at a whole one myself then... if we entered as a team for a row, bike, run, I'd end up doing the rowing and the swimmer (my boyf) would do the running. Might end up higher-placed though :-). I can out-row blokes, but not out-run them!
Anyone have the details ?
You could use a Trike Jj - no rule against it !
I'm not going anywhere near it. Their rowing machines will crash. Their boats do...
Saw one of their Senior Men's VIIIs do the most spectacular crunch I've ever seen in the Head of the River Race about 6 years ago - hit the black buoy at Putney, just seconds short of the finish line... It must have hurt like hell, luckily loads of people around to help them out.
For anyone who is interested the winning time last year was 1.01.** not quite sure but I did it in 1.03.48 and I'd never really run and I'd never been more than 2 miles on a bike before the event.
I'll be there again this year as well.
It's probably a good novice race to do as all sorts turn up
:-)
I can't make this year's event, but it does sound good. Mountain bike? What else would anyone do it on? eek, hadn't even thought about that! Just assumed a bike was a bike...
Will definitely think about it next year though...
Are you at Agecroft then Rob? Not in that boat, I hope. I was just amazed nobody was seriously injured. We had been neck and neck with them for the previous 2 minutes; it looked like the cox was turning round to see where we were and accidentally pulled the rudder strings...
My splits? I've only ever done one tri in my life and that was the one. Do you mean What did I get for each one?
I think it was something along the lines of Rowing 9.10 (I took it easy as I'd never been more than 2 miles on a bike before) And the run was just under 24 minutes so i guess that makes the bike about 30 minutes, I had a little time taken off as I was sent the wrong way after the first lap, something that will not happen again. The row part was only 2.5 k last year and it was the bike where i was thrashed by the people who won.
So I'm not gonna come last anyway. Not looking forward to a 15 minute row though !!
Cheers Rob.
Cougie - you gonna WIN?!?!?
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