Final Boardie Ironman outing - Pgibbo vs Challenge Barcelona

catweazle

After a year of training runs, salads, low heart rates and easy race simulations. PGibbo is finally going to raise the legs above a canter and tackle Barcelona.

I will leave someone with a better knowledge of spanish to work out his race number http://www.challenge-barcelona.es/index_evento.php

All the best gibbo, make sure those handlesbars are screwed on properly :rolleyes:

El Director

Best of luck PGibbo!

Izoard

Well, at least the weather this week has been Barcelona-esque, just in time for the final taper:)

All the best with it!

littlebug

best of luck pgibbo

tunney

Smoke it pgibbo.

RacoonQueen

catweazle wrote: »

I will leave someone with a better knowledge of spanish to work out his race number http://www.challenge-barcelona.es/index_evento.php

If you changed the language to English it's pretty easy to navigate! :pac:

Joyce Wolfe is doing this as well I see.

griffin100

Best of luck with this. It's a race that always gets a good report so enjoy.

ronanmac

Best of luck pgibbo. Here's hoping you nail it!

kennyb3

Looking forward to seeing how you go pgibbo, best of luck

shotgunmcos

The very best of luck pgibbo, leave it all out there kid

Bambaata

Best of luck Pgibbo!

Krusty_Clown

Go do it pgibbo. Best of luck..

interested

Try to avoid the Oktoberfest tent at least until after the race chief. Enjoy.

RedB

Think happy thoughts Enjoy and best of luck pgibbo.

Oryx

You know you can.
You know you should.
And you goddamn will.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Best of luck P, it's a lovely course and i hope you have a good race.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

1:14 swim so far

duffyshuffle

where'd you find that? live ticker not working for me? link please if handy

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

duffyshuffle wrote: »

where'd you find that? live ticker not working for me? link please if handy

http://www.challenge-barcelona.es/liveticker/liveticker.php
It seems to be down alright.

catweazle

Ya returning nothing for me either, i then tried his name and it has screwed me up altogether, doesn't even pull in the leaders now.

Cheap servers :mad:

tunney

Worst athlete tracking even.

Following another lad too - the splits on the bike are inclusive of swim and T1 - so its elapsed time and not split time. Got me for a while

That puts pgibbo ahead of plan I would imagine.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

tunney wrote: »

Worst athlete tracking even.

Following another lad too - the splits on the bike are inclusive of swim and T1 - so its elapsed time and not split time. Got me for a while

That puts pgibbo ahead of plan I would imagine.

Ah that makes sense now, i was thinking the first bike split was on the slow side:rolleyes:

duffyshuffle

working now, bike splits look very fast for who i'm looking at anyway but swim looked on slow side

El Director

Very little breeze and hot, fingers crossed that won't be a big factor for P.

tunney

duffyshuffle wrote: »

working now, bike splits look very fast for who i'm looking at anyway but swim looked on slow side

Pgibbo about 10 faster than he thought so wouldn't have said slow.

He is on track to be about 5 min faster than baseline plan so wouldn't have said fast.

Maybe your mate is drafting Gav?

duffyshuffle

tunney wrote: »

Maybe your mate is drafting Gav?

I thought Challenge races were draft legal?

tunney

Pgibbo 6:18 or so bike.

Macanri

Only seeing tis now - go get them pgibbo (or got them as the case may be!)

tunney

11:09 with 6km to go.

Why oh why start an IM event at 10am............

catweazle

Long day for us as well checking it

Although Gibbos day I would say was a lot harder - hes running pretty even splits if he holds it together he should be in comfortably under 12

Oryx

Thats a long ol day. Its mad following it all the way

Triptych

He finished about 35 min ago apparently so well done Gibbo. An impressive performance!

tunney

11:35:36

Well done pgibbo.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Well done P great going enjoy the well deserved beers.

El Director

So 11:35 for P! Fair play to you P, looks like you paced it very well and it went to plan. Really looking forward to the last IM report of 2011 too

kingQuez

Spotted Joyce Wolfe finished 5th in the womens race too. Looks like shes had a decent year!

catweazle

Bowen Long Lady wrote: »

Well done P great going enjoy the well deserved beers.

It will be mrs Gibbo that will be tucking into the beers

El Director wrote: »

Really looking forward to the last IM report of 2011 too

Partuicularly when there are a few boardies looking at doing this next year so some logistics comments will be much appreciated

Well done, and a finish of a 3.53 marathon - great going for your first ever marathon, me and Sean now have a time to beat in Dublin for bragging rights

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

catweazle wrote: »

Partuicularly when there are a few boardies looking at doing this next year so some logistics comments will be much appreciated

Good man CW:)

griffin100

Great result. Well done pgibbo. Looking forward to race report.

shotgunmcos

Great stuff pgibbo and nicely paced too. Well done mate thats a very solid intro to IM

pgibbo

Thanks for all the kind words and support folks. It was a long day but a very enjoyable one. I'd highly recommend the event. I loved "nearly" every minute of it. Lap 3 of the run not so much but the rest of the day was great.

Back to work today so I'll be doing a race report today or tomorrow. Once it's done I'll post it!

I spotted this thread on Saturday afternoon and it gave me a great lift. Just what I needed the evening before the race. So thanks folks. :cool:

interested

pgibbo wrote: »

I loved "nearly" every minute of it. Lap 3 of the run not so much but the rest of the day was great.

Job well done chief. Congrats.

ronanmac

Well done, pgibbo. Looking forward to the report!

pgibbo

Race report here. A bit long!

catweazle

Nice report paul - a little bit of poetic flair to when you get going on it!

Izoard

Great result...you make it sound pi$$ easy;)

pgibbo

catweazle wrote: »

Nice report paul - a little bit of poetic flair to when you get going on it!

Cheers. I guess you could say it's all your fault. If you hadn't given me that book I might not have had the most enjoyable race of my life. So thank you! :cool:

RacoonQueen

Great read - well done.

tunney

well done.

interested

nice first spin out, lots more in the bag Id say and great job with the swimming, no bother to you.

pgibbo

interested wrote: »

nice first spin out, lots more in the bag Id say and great job with the swimming, no bother to you.

Thanks Chief. I got some funny looks at work after I put up the pics of the finish area, etc that you sent me when people asked what they were. They sure helped though! :cool: