Tri-Athy.........call your time.

tunguska

Not much being said about this race so I thought I'd get something going seeing as its on this saturday. Big one at that, 2500 people taking part. Heres my predicted(hoped for)times:

1.5km Swim 22mins
40km Bike 58mins
10k run 36mins


So folks call your time(s).

Weather is meant to be fine aswell, so its looking pretty good.
Cheers

monaghanbiffo

Sub 2hrs




for the sprint

Pisco Sour

haha I posted a thread about this exact same thing yesterday and it got ignored.

I'm doing Olympic.

Swim: 35mins
Bike: 1hr 50 (Hybrid Bike)
Run: 52mins

Allowing 4 mins for each transition

Total: 3hrs 25

I've a question about the race numbers. How many do they give out? I assume one for the cycle leg, one for the run leg, one small one for your helmet and one small one to go on your bike (this is how Athlone did it last year). I'm assuming you dont have to wear one during the swim. The race briefing says nothing about this.

Also I'm in the 2nd last wave and am a slow cyclist (partly due to having a slow bike) so am worried I will end up being the last on the course. I hope the race officials dont forget I'm on the course and think the race is over and leave. The last thing I need after 3 hours of torture is to run off course.

jaymack75

haven't done athy before, but it is supposed to be fast, so............

25 swim
1:05 bike
39 run

2:10 total (hopefully)

911sc

Olympic
swim 25min (Wave 3 - I'll be wearing a black wetsuit and a colored hat :-))
cycle 1h10min
run 52min
T1 & T2 = 5min
Total = 2h32min

A bit of (educated) guessing...this will be my first triathlon.

DrMicrobe

Hi Guys, first ever triathalon-

Sprint
Swim-12mins
T1-2mins
Bike-44 mins
T2-2mind
Run-25 mins

1hr 24ish!!

I'm in the very last wave of the say starting at 6pm. Does this mean that when I finish that everybody will be gone home???

Bambaata

Doing Sprint myself

Swim 10:30 (depends on current)
T1 1:50
Bike 33:00 (Cant remember if its exactly 20km so this would depend on that)
T2 0:50
Run 23:00 (I think its a bit longer than 5km - based on last yrs results)

Total: 1:09:10

Abhainn

jaymack75 wrote: »

haven't done athy before, but it is supposed to be fast, so............

25 swim
1:05 bike
39 run

2:10 total (hopefully)

Thankfully I'm not in your wave jaymack75 you'd be leaving me for dust;)

Hoping for sub 2:30 in the olympic

Maybe something like
swim sub 32min
cycle 1h13min
run sub 40min
T1 & T2 = 5min

BombSquad

1:10 in Kilcock last weekend. Allowing for the extra distances this week I'm hoping for a 1:15. 10 minutes better than last year.

Swim 750m 12:00
T1 2:00
Bike 20k 37:00
T2 1:00
Run 23:00

Clum

Abhainn wrote: »

T1 & T2 = 5min

You stopping for tea and a bagel? Transition will be faster than that.

I'll looking for something similar, about 2.30.
Swim 30 mins
Cycle 80 mins
Run 40 mins

Abhainn

Clum wrote: »

You stopping for tea and a bagel? Transition will be faster than that.

Ya Clum I've just rechecked last years results in more detail and if the coarse is same as lasts years I would hope to better than 2:30.

So heres hoping that the swim and bike and T's will be faster than I first planned.

MCOS

Abhainn wrote: »

Ya Clum I've just rechecked last years results in more detail and if the coarse is same as lasts years I would hope to better than 2:30.

So heres hoping that the swim and bike and T's will be faster than I first planned.

Also if you just put on your wetsuit, lie on your back and float down the river you will be a lot faster than 32 mins :rolleyes:

MCOS

tunguska wrote: »

Not much being said about this race so I thought I'd get something going seeing as its on this saturday. Big one at that, 2500 people taking part. Heres my predicted(hoped for)times:

1.5km Swim 22mins
40km Bike 58mins
10k run 36mins


So folks call your time(s).

Weather is meant to be fine aswell, so its looking pretty good.
Cheers

:eek: 36 min run off a 58 min bike.... Jesus!

tunney

MCOS wrote: »

:eek: 36 min run off a 58 min bike.... Jesus!

Aye - thats what I thought. Wonder who tunguska really is? And do I know them.

wellboss

jaymack75 wrote: »

25 swim
1:05 bike
39 run

2:10 total (hopefully)

I'll be looking for a similar result,

just hope they get my emails and remove me from the sprint and up to the olympic seeing as that's what I paid for.

MCOS

Ok, I'll give it a lash but really depends on how I feel on the day if I'll push for these or not

Swim - No idea 24-25 ish
T1 - 1.5mins barring disaster
Bike - 1'06' and change and I'm happy
T2 - less than 60 sec barring disaster
Run - Better than my Joey run of 41'39"

Summed up to just under 2'15 all going well

McTigs

Woefully ill prepared for my second ever triathlon, nevertheless...

Swim 30 mins
T1 3 mins
Cycle 75 mins
T2 2 mins
Run 55 mins

Aiming for 2h45mins and i will be delighted if i acheive this

griffin100

Hmmm, was hoping for a sub 3hr in my first olympic race but hoping to go a little bit faster now given (a) the swim will be fast (I hope) and (b) I did a 1.15 sprint in Kilcock last week.

Prediction:

• Swim 34 minutes
• Bike 80 minutes
• Run 53 minutes
• Transitions 3 minutes

Total: 2hrs 50mins

Any thing around this and I'll be really happy:)

liamo

2:45 or under for the olympic would be satisfactory.
2:38 is my target - anything under that would be a bonus.

Swim : 25 minutes
Bike : 75 minutes
Run : 55 minutes
T1 + T2 : 3 minutes

Total: 2hrs 38mins

DAVE_K

Swim: Sub 20 mins
Bike: Sub 1:20 - really badly prepared for this
Run: Sub 47 mins

Total: Sub 2:30

Darac

Anyone know if they are going to make us swim upstream at the end or will it all be downstream?

911sc

When i was in Athy on Sunday last for the swim, i asked same question to Brian.
The water level last sunday had already dropped for a foot (though current was strong, so 1500m was entirely downstream), and he was pretty confident that it will drop further (hence less current) as the weather was to stay dry. Weather has been good and forecast is very good for today and tomorrow.
So, i think it is go for 1100m down + 400 upstream:)

ZZJ

Does anybody know why they have changed the run course to two laps of 5k?

911sc

More interesting for spectators.

tagoona

Youtube is blocked here in work.
I haven't found a map of the bike or run course anywhere on the website.
Does anybody have a link / it mapped out on google maps or anything?

cheers

Swim: About 24 mins
Bike: 1:15
Run: 48 mins

Total: 2:35

Highway_To_Hell

tagoona wrote: »

Youtube is blocked here in work.
I haven't found a map of the bike or run course anywhere on the website.
Does anybody have a link / it mapped out on google maps or anything?

cheers

Swim: About 24 mins
Bike: 1:15
Run: 48 mins

Total: 2:35

bike route is 2 laps of a out and back loop on the R417 to a village called Maganey.

the new run course is available here (taken from the triathy website.

pgibbo

Best of luck to everyone in Athy this weekend. Looks like it will be a perfect weekend for racing. :cool:

Bambaata

they have a blessings of the Gods! Last years weather was fantastic and it looks like its gonna be another great day weather wise! I like the look of the live leader tracker but alas I'll be out marshalling at the Olympic so I wont get to see it. Was looking forward to seeing Aileen Morrison in transition so I can try learn a little more but hopefully i spot her on the bike at least

Poncherello

Be dleighted with sub 2.20 all depends on my run and how close I can get to 45 mins
anyone any idea which way the wind will be on the bike ?

MCOS

Bambaata wrote: »

Was looking forward to seeing Aileen Morrison in transition so I can try learn a little more but hopefully i spot her on the bike at least

Worth spotting too One of my favourite moments in the last Limerick Duathlone was passing her on the bike and then having her scorch past me out of T2

brazil325

Was up swimming on thurs evening and was swimming 6 mins 40 sec for the 750 which is about 4-5 mins quicker than a standard 750 so the flow is still strong but i'd say it'll be the 1100 down and 400 back swim.

Even given this i'm still going to go for:

sub 20 swim
1hr 5min bike
42.30 run

so really really hoping for a sub 2.10.
2.16 was last years time so it won't be easy

tunguska

MCOS wrote: »

Also if you just put on your wetsuit, lie on your back and float down the river you will be a lot faster than 32 mins :rolleyes:

Ha ha! Brilliant:)

mjth2004

Quick question regarding athy which i should of posted this morn!

The race breifing is for 10.00 with the first wave of at 10.30, does this mean that all the other waves will have to vacate the transition area after the briefing! In other words for those in Wave 5, rather than aiming to be in for 10 to catch the race brief & then set up, they will have to wait around for an hour prior to starting twiddling their thumbs & eyeing up who to draft of.........

911sc

The transition area is to be vacated by all participants (regardless of wave start) BEFORE the 10am briefing. No access back to T area allowed afaik.

Check out the event info pack

tagoona

good luck to everyone tomorrow.
Hopefully everyone will enjoy.

tagoona

So hows the dehydration and sunburn?
What's with the lack of t-shirts as well? Do they not know that's the only reason we do triathlons.

anyway, my prediction was 2.35, finished in 2.36. Badly let down by the run.
How did the rest of ye do?

Bambaata

finished in 1:00:59. Well happy but also annoyed at the run. The body hadnt recovered from last week and I cramped bad on the first 2km, so much so i was barely jogging. a few passed me in that 2km but once i started actually running i caught them again although i lost in a sprint finish for 4th, 5th & 6th! The 3 of us crossed within 2 seconds of eachother. Waiting anxiously now on all the results combined. Hopefully not too many more were faster in the later waves. It would mean my first top 10 which i never thought was possible going into it

tagoona

Thats a quick time even still bambaata. Congratulations

FunkSoulSista

Congratulations to everyone who took part yesterday, I was there yesterday afternoon, I don't know how ye do it!!

911sc

911sc wrote: »

Predicted
Olympic
swim 25min
cycle 1h10min
run 52min
T1 & T2 = 5min
Total = 2h32min

Race timing
Swim 26min
Cycle 1h16min
Run 48min
T1=1min30sec T2=1min30sec
So finished in 2h34min.

But i think there was something wrong with the timing. Four of us took part yesterday and the T1/T2 are the same (e.g. 1min30sec for me) though different for each of us. Anyway, that's no big deal.

Beautiful day, well organised event.
So, again, thanks to all organisers & volunteers.

I hope we'll get our t-shirt at some stage and i would have liked to get a medal. My kids don't believe me that i won:)

gombeen99

Well done to the organisers, it my first time at triathy & I couldnt believe how many competitors there were but yet how smoothly everything went. Pity about the lack of goody bag&tshirt (i left one behind me at the swim start so was hoping I'd break even!) and I was really looking forward to a gourmet food recovery snack pack at the end but there were none either! my last negative point is that they ran out of water at the 2km run mark (on the road) during the second last wave of the sprint race. I had taken a lot of fluid on the cycle so was ok but a lot of people seemed v peeved at this&resorted to picking up half used bottles from the road. However, they DID have plenty of water at a point further along on the canal bank so I dont think anyone would have suffered too much.

All in all a brilliant day, really well run & a great atmosphere.

tagoona

Yeah, the lack of water at 2k was a killer, especially on the second lap.It was the only downside, as far as I can see.
For an event that size, it was amazingly welll organised and run on time. Brilliant.

AndrewMc

I spent a few hours during the morning session going around taking photographs at random locations. I didn't delete any apart from total duds, so maybe you might see somebody you recognise here, blurry or otherwise: http://pix.ie/andrewmccarthy/album/344167

Congrats to all who participated. I was tired just from walking around with the camera in that heat!

Noangel72

...I came in at 2h34 and something......beautiful weather!....first time I race in Ireland with such great weather........will remember it for a long time......water was terrible though....looked liked diarrhoea!!!!...by the way my T1 and T2 are also the same.....strange!

....see you next year!

Bambaata

I raised the same T1 and T2 time on those printouts with the guy organising it and he went over and fixed it then. he had a small error in the code for the printout for the system but all times were recorded right. There was a serious queue by then though so id say a lot didnt get it after he fixed it. Great idea though. Hopefully other races get that going too.

McTigs

McTigs wrote: »

Woefully ill prepared for my second ever triathlon, nevertheless...

Swim 30 mins
T1 3 mins
Cycle 75 mins
T2 2 mins
Run 55 mins

Aiming for 2h45mins and i will be delighted if i acheive this

Swim 37.25 (made an absolute balls of it, i'm blaming the chest infection)
T1 2.55
Cycle 80 mins (i'm blaming being out of sorts after the swim)
T2 2.55
Run 53.37 mins (quite happy with this, mind you the cross country it bit was a hoor)

All in all great day and a very well organised event so thanks to the organisers!

Went back to galway and got plastered and bragged to anyone who'd listen.... people were just walking away from me in the end.

Why did they want to know our tshirt size?

Bambaata

I heard something about T-Shirts being sent out. Cant remember who said it though. Maybe there was a delay in them getting them for the race??

McTigs

Bambaata wrote: »

I heard something about T-Shiorts being sent out.

are they being sent out from Dublin 4?

Bambaata

haha woops, nice typo. the collars are permanently up too. u can iron them all u like but they just wont go down

Pisco Sour

Where did you all get your results? They arent up on the net yet.

I have one complaint which I have to make. I was in the 2nd last wave, and as I'm not the strongest of cyclists and have a hybrid bike I knew I'd be at the very end of the field come the run. I had expressed worried on the Novice Triathlete thread earlier that this would result in the race marshalls forgetting I'm still racing and not be there to direct me. During my T2 there was hundreds of other athletes packing up to go home which is fine, but when I asked the marshalls where do I go for the run they gave mde appalling directions. So much so that I ended up back at my Transition area and lost 2 minutes before one of them was able to tell me where to go. When I eventually found where to go I saw that the fence was blocking my entry to the run and I had to move it to get on to the run course. Naturally I was very very angry and completely lost the head with the race marshalls!! There was nobody standing at the entry to the run to direct me in. I was worried about this for the last few weeks and my fears were realised. I got punished for being a slow cyclist.

Anyway got through the course in 3hrs 47 mins. It was the most difficult thing I've ever done and am so happy to get through it. My transitions were very very slow but was delighted with my run which I think was in the region of 53mins or so. Unfortunately I spent the whole run on my own ha!

When will the results be put up on the website?

Bambaata

the results were available from a PC beside the castle. You put in your race number, hit enter and printed off all your times. great feature. hadn't seen it before. sorry to hear about your trouble. i don't think they should have let anyone in until all were out on the run course. it was a fantastic evening so hanging around another 30 mins or so wouldn't have been an issue for me (and i had been there since 8am!!)

good to hear you still enjoyed it. congrats