Pulse Sprint Triathlon Clogherhead Louth : Swim Leg

Seres

was thinking of signing up for this in august but the sea swim is turning me off a little , does anyone know what the swim leg is like , sheltered , choppy , ???

liamo

Hi Seres,

I and a number of others from Pulse had a club swim there last night. The swim is pretty sheltered, there was only a very light swell with no chop and the water temperature was very nice.

Feel free to ask any other questions you may have. I'll do my best to answer them for you.

Have you done any open-water swims before?

Regards,

Liam

Seres wrote: »

was thinking of signing up for this in august but the sea swim is turning me off a little , does anyone know what the swim leg is like , sheltered , choppy , ???

liamo

So that you can see for yourself.

http://www.pulsetri.com/PhotoSet.php?id=72157619804315871

Seres

liamo wrote: »

Hi Seres,

I and a number of others from Pulse had a club swim there last night. The swim is pretty sheltered, there was only a very light swell with no chop and the water temperature was very nice.

Feel free to ask any other questions you may have. I'll do my best to answer them for you.

Have you done any open-water swims before?

Regards,

Liam

ya , have done lots of ows, not in the sea though , not yet this year though , hope to get out for a dip in lough key forest park sunday .

barongreen

The count down is on, are there many here going to give it a bash.

Seres

barongreen wrote: »

The count down is on, are there many here going to give it a bash.

me , do you know the course well ?

mloc123

Doing this one too. No idea of the area/course. Is the bike flat or lumpy?

TFBubendorfer

liamo wrote: »

and the water temperature was very nice.

I've fallen for that one before.

This is Ireland. The sea water is *****ing freezing. Don't pretend otherwise.

MCOS

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

I've fallen for that one before.

This is Ireland. The sea water is *****ing freezing. Don't pretend otherwise.

Eh.. Lough Deirg is like a warm bath at the mo'

liamo

mloc123 wrote: »

Is the bike flat or lumpy?

Although I haven't cycled the course personally, I believe it's pretty flat with some undulations.

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

I've fallen for that one before.
This is Ireland. The sea water is *****ing freezing. Don't pretend otherwise.

Heh. Well, I suppose, this being Ireland, the sea will never be warm. That's what the wetsuits are for.:P

"Very nice" meant "not in much of a hurry to get out". I suppose that's as much as we can ask for at this lattitude

Seres

is the sea swim well sheltered ?

liamo

Seres wrote: »

is the sea swim well sheltered ?

From memory it appeared to be somewhat sheltered but at a distance.

mloc123

BUMP, getting close now.

Seres

went for first sea swim sunday , water defo colder than lake/river , salt water rank , hope i survive saturday , best of luck all doing it

Odysseus

I have most of my running around there for the past 5 years and never even knew there was a tri on. What date is it on? Anyone know the running route?

Odysseus

Just checked the site there, I would have liked to have watched it, but I'll be making my way back from Galway with Ultraman that weekend.

Seres

Odysseus wrote: »

Just checked the site there, I would have liked to have watched it, but I'll be making my way back from Galway with Ultraman that weekend.

its starts fairly late if that makes any difference , round 12 i think .

Seres

Odysseus wrote: »

Just checked the site there, I would have liked to have watched it, but I'll be making my way back from Galway with Ultraman that weekend.

its starts fairly late if that makes any difference , round 12 i think .

Carpe Diem

Is the reason for the triathlon starting late (12ish) got to do with the turning of the tide. Does anyone know what the situation with regard to the tide is. Is it an issue at all for the sea swim!!

What is the story with the cycle routes, I remember there are some big hills around clogherhead (Castlecoo Hill??), will these be in the cycle / run legs.

Best of luck to all participants.

messed_up

Looks like 120+ swimmers in Wave 3 on Saturday - could get a bit choppy (gulp!)

Best of luck to all taking part

mloc123

Just read the briefing, looks like this should be a very well run race

Carpe Diem

Definately looks well run, also expecting reasonably summery weather tomorrow, so should be good fun. Best of luck to everyone!!

mloc123

Just back from this now... big thumbs up to Pulse.

Very well organised, great athmosphere and loads of support.

Smithzer

Well done Pulse, great fun, well organised and a good buzz about the place. Good work Bryan the rest of the Pulse folks.

Highway_To_Hell

mloc123 wrote: »

Just back from this now... big thumbs up to Pulse.

Very well organised, great athmosphere and loads of support.

+ 1 on the organisation, While the transition area was tight and I thought it would cause problems it seemed to work out well.

The open roads caused me one ot two problems, one driver slowed down at a junction to ask the gaurds something causing me to break un-necessarily the gaurds shouted at her look in her mirror and get out of the way. Also had to pass out a tractor and trailer while going up hill took a bit out of my legs, still enjoyed the day and hopefully it will be on again next year.

It was my fist sea swim (race) in 4 years and I really need to improve my sighting as I went slightly astray on 2 occasions. hopefully I won't have the same problemn in Courtown in 2 weeks.

Thanks to Pulse Tri for organising a good day out.

mloc123

http://www.tdl.ltd.uk/results.php?checked=1&race_id=193&submit=sent

For anyone looking for the full result list.

Carpe Diem

Congrats to the Organisers, brilliant day out yesterday. Lovely course, nice little hill on the run out just to zap the legs a little further!!! Again, it was clear that a HUGE amount of work goes in to organising the race, so well done to all involved!!!!!

Bruce11

Great race, swim was tough and helped sort out the field, cycle had a strong wind at times both for and against. Open roads are common place on most triathlons but there was a closed road up and down the coast which helped. The transition was tight but numbered which I prefer. As for the run, yeah mainly flat but that little hill at the water station felt like a mountain. Great course and fantastic day, great support from all the marshalls.

Seres

definitely very well run , especially for there first time , beautiful location , all the legs fitted very well together , like a loop for a bike course , think its alot safer , good marshalling on bike course, good water safety , beautiful finish on coast road on bike route , transition was well marked and great idea having to put your no on your bike to prevent people upgrading , seems like a close knit community , great support from the locals out on the course , would definitely recommend it , intend on returning next year.

makker

Agree with everyone, was very well organised. The choice of venue was excellent, as it was very uncomplicated. Also having the field to park right beside the transition was good as I always tend to forget bits 'n pieces to bring to transition and end up making return journeys to the car. Also very well marshalled and there was no shortage of them, and thought they really gave it socks to shout at the athletes to push them to the max.

Found the swim a little deceptive, it took longer to get out to the first buoy, than expected. Enjoyed the way that the waves were organised by your estimated swim time so for once did not come out of the water and see an empty bike rack around me.
Enjoyed the cycle, made up some good time here
Was a fan of the run aswell, getting the worst of the hills done in the first half and then been able to hit the gas at the turnaround.
It was my first triathlon for a year and was happy to get through without the usual injury recurring, hopefully finally the worst of it is behind me!

Will deffo do again next year

Cheers Pulse!