Who are ya..... Green&Red

BTH

Next up in the series is a relative newbie to these pages, who is firmly lodged in the top three of the SBR challenge, racking up some impressive totals. But who is the person behind the username and the training numbers and what makes him (I think?) tick.................

tunney

What's your favourite colour?

BTH

And I'll get it kicked off with, how did your season go? Do you feel you got the rewards your training numbers deserved? Is the plan for more of the same next year, and whats this rubbish about taking up cycling??

Oryx

ASL?

Best achievement in tri?

Favourite race?

Worst racing cockup?

Favourite food?

How many hours do you sleep at night?

Green&Red

Not sure what I've done to deserve this but here goes.......

tunney wrote: »

What's your favourite colour?

Green

Green&Red

BTH wrote: »

And I'll get it kicked off with, how did your season go? Do you feel you got the rewards your training numbers deserved? Is the plan for more of the same next year, and whats this rubbish about taking up cycling??

I was happy enought with the season, I felt it brought the results my training deserved. I know theres a lot of talk on the SBR challenge page about junk miles but for those of us taking up the three of them a lot of it I find is just getting used to running or swimming large amounts. I'd never ran before and found that by turning my warm up/down for sessions from 2k to 5k I found great improvements.
Likewise with the swimming, greater numbers meant I came out of the water feeling a lot fresher this year.
I had set out goals for 2013 and met almost all of them and more, so very happy.
I'm undecided for 2014. I'm pulled from a will to do the RAS and on the other side to see how fast I can get at tri's. Time may be the ultimate decider, I help out on the farm, all the heavy lifting and it just disrupts training, especially the long hours you need for the bike at the weekend. But then I look at tris and wonder can I ever get near the 17 min 5k guys.

So ya, undecided

littlemsfickle

Green&Red wrote: »

Not sure what I've done to deserve this but here goes.......



Green

....but what about red???

catweazle

Was it the Galway Bay Cycling club you were with back in Galway - how did you find them, it is something I am looking at doing?

Did you and your red headed arch nemesis take up triathlon at the same time?

How much bogland have you got?

Whats the race plan for this year - is that race in Leenane taking over from Louisburgh?

Green&Red

Oryx wrote: »

ASL?

Best achievement in tri?

Favourite race?

Worst racing cockup?

Favourite food?

How many hours do you sleep at night?

ASL??

Best achievement - dont know that I've achieved anything yet. Had set my goal last year to podium in louisburgh and did that, so was happy, although there was no prize for second :rolleyes::mad:

Favourite - Hell of the west, loved the stormy swim this year, thought it suited a mucker like me. In general loved the torture. Great nite out as well

Cock-up - standing on the beach in Louisburgh stretching when the hooter sounded, started dead last, maybe 100m behind the pack

Food - love my food, savoury not sweet, one of the reasons I could never get skinny enough to compete! Love cooking too. I'll go with a fillet steak dinner, cooked rare, with corn on the cob and roasted sweet potato and beetroot on the side. But notable mentions to enchiladas, seafood chowder, meatballs and fresh fruit salad.

Anything really with food but I have worked on my portion sizes in the last couple of years, especially with carbs

I'm brutal for going to bed, 6/7 hrs most nites. I know that with more I'd recover better and improve. It'll be a new years resolution

Oryx

ASL is Age Sex Location. 'Getting to know you' shorthand.

BennyMul

what category in racing are you A1,2,3,4.
if > 2 are you going to upgrade yourself to get the harder racing for the Ras

and whats the general obsession with a red haired arch nemesis

Kurt Godel

Great choice.

What's the stormiest sea you've swam in?

What do you hope you get your 400TT swim down to before May?

Best ever run?

Bambaata

What is your 5 year plan?

Coming into tri is always a strange experience with loads of questions seeming pretty ridiculous to people in it a while so what advice would you give yourself starting out? What would you think is the most ridiculous question you had when you first came into it?

Have you ever done a number two while out running? If so did you make the bushes? :P

Green&Red

Oryx wrote: »

ASL is Age Sex Location. 'Getting to know you' shorthand.

I'm clearly not down with the cool kids

34, male, Dublin since April on a 12 month secondment, Galway prior to that. Mayo originally

Green&Red

catweazle wrote: »

Was it the Galway Bay Cycling club you were with back in Galway - how did you find them, it is something I am looking at doing?

Did you and your red headed arch nemesis take up triathlon at the same time?

How much bogland have you got?

Whats the race plan for this year - is that race in Leenane taking over from Louisburgh?

Yes GBCC, found them brilliant, Nigel is a great man to have out on a cycle and their sessions are as sessions should be, take it easy to start out with, pick it up and then flat out to home. If you get dropped in the middle section you're in the wrong group. Found it very beneficial. Couldnt recommend them highly enough

The ging and myself did our first race together, although we were starting from very different bases. I had just learned to swim, I think he had been a pool lifeguard, I had never ran, he had a couple of marathons. He was a long way ahead of me until this year. I can beat him now on the swim and was ahead on the bike, although July was our last race, he'd eat me now. His running is in a different league.

4 acres of actual bog and another 96 of prime moy valley!

Not sure what the leenane race is. Louisburgh is ideal for me, if only the cycle was a little longer

Green&Red

BennyMul wrote: »

what category in racing are you A1,2,3,4.
if > 2 are you going to upgrade yourself to get the harder racing for the Ras

and whats the general obsession with a red haired arch nemesis

I'm A4 because I dont really know how you get points for races, and last year it was all connaught and mayo league races. Will probably sign up as A3, it saves me making any long term decisions on the RAS and helps me procrastinate

The ging passed me with a k to go in Louisburgh, something I dont think would have happened if I wasn't pr**king about on the beach when the race started. I gained revenge in kilkee and then he passed me not once but twice in transition in Ballina Transition is something I need to work on.
All this happened in front of Catweazle, he knows the bitterness I hold

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

What do you think it will take to stay FOP or MOP in the Ras, power and watts per/kg?
How far of a gap do you reckon you have to make up off that now?
Does the RAS scare you:)

Green&Red

Kurt Godel wrote: »

Great choice.

What's the stormiest sea you've swam in?

What do you hope you get your 400TT swim down to before May?

Best ever run?

Spiddal 2012, every stroke you were being pounded back into the sea, loved it

400TT - I honestly dont know, I dont really trust the 6.48 I posted in October, so I'd settle for that, 6.30 would be phenomenal

Best ever run - havent done that many, wouldnt even need to go to my toes to count them. Probably my 10k where I squeaked under 40 in Kilbride earler in the summer

Green&Red

Bambaata wrote: »

What is your 5 year plan?

Coming into tri is always a strange experience with loads of questions seeming pretty ridiculous to people in it a while so what advice would you give yourself starting out? What would you think is the most ridiculous question you had when you first came into it?

Have you ever done a number two while out running? If so did you make the bushes? :P

5 year plan - I dont have one, am working on two concurrent plans, the RAS and trying to make a top 20 in a NS race. One could follow the other.
In general terms I'd like to see how fast I can get, theres lots of talk from friends of going long, no thanks, when I get to a stage where I'm as fast as I can be at sprints/olympics then I'll look for something else


Swim more, it took me three years to cop on to that. A move to cork really helped with more open water swimming and gave me much more confidence.

Probably whether I could have a kayaker beside me for the whole race


No No. 2s while running, one slightly worse experience at a tri, with a bad dose and five trips to the toilet in advance of getting into the water. Turns out I needed six

Green&Red

Aniya Moldy Beginner wrote: »

What do you think it will take to stay FOP or MOP in the Ras, power and watts per/kg?
How far of a gap do you reckon you have to make up off that now?
Does the RAS scare you:)

Have to admit to not having a power meter, have been struggling to justify the investment. So FOP and MOP mean nothing to me

my FTP in March from memory was 285, off about 81kg.

In terms of gaps, judging myself purely on training with GBCC last year, maybe not that much to just hang in there. I've a lot of stubborness.

There is of course the chance that I'm deluding myself completely!

The RAS scares the crap out of me but having spoken to a friend at home who came from a similar background to make it in one year I got great confidence that I can do it in two. But like I say, time is the killer, last weekend had two spins planned, didnt even make the turbo

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Green&Red wrote: »

Have to admit to not having a power meter, have been struggling to justify the investment. So FOP and MOP mean nothing to me

my FTP in March from memory was 285, off about 81kg.

In terms of gaps, judging myself purely on training with GBCC last year, maybe not that much to just hang in there. I've a lot of stubborness.

There is of course the chance that I'm deluding myself completely!

The RAS scares the crap out of me but having spoken to a friend at home who came from a similar background to make it in one year I got great confidence that I can do it in two. But like I say, time is the killer, last weekend had two spins planned, didnt even make the turbo

Sorry FOP & MOP stand for front of pack/middle of pack. I would imagine holding 270w for 3 to 4 hrs would be required along with dealing with 1min-2min surges of 500w+. RAS is something i hope to do myself some year but a long way off that. I would imagine it would require a single bike focus.

BennyMul

Aniya Moldy Beginner wrote: »

Sorry FOP & MOP stand for front of pack/middle of pack. I would imagine holding 270w for 3 to 4 hrs would be required along with dealing with 1min-2min surges of 500w+. RAS is something i hope to do myself some year but a long way off that. I would imagine it would require a single bike focus.

tbh, (slightly off thread) there is alot more than holding 270w for hours, there is bike skills needed to ride in a bunch at 50kph+, once maganged I image 200ish watts would keep you there.
and there is a savage difference between an A4 race and an A1,2 if you are considering it you should be looking to ride a1 races to get used to the extra distance and speed.

so back on topic.
money no object what bikes
whats your sporting background.
dancing on ice or xfactor

Dory Dory

Hi G&R!

How tall are you?
How much do you weigh? (if that's not too rude...which compared to Bambaata's question about number 2.....:eek:;):))
What part of Mayo are you from?
How many bikes do you have, and could you tell us a little about them?

EC1000

20km bike PB?
40km bike PB?
5km run PB?
10km run PB?

Green&Red

Aniya Moldy Beginner wrote: »

Sorry FOP & MOP stand for front of pack/middle of pack. I would imagine holding 270w for 3 to 4 hrs would be required along with dealing with 1min-2min surges of 500w+. RAS is something i hope to do myself some year but a long way off that. I would imagine it would require a single bike focus.

I'd agree on the bike handling skills, more to the point descending.
I do realise its a huge jump but then it wouldnt be a huge deal if t wasnt and again maybe I'm deluding myself completely

Green&Red

BennyMul wrote: »

so back on topic.
money no object what bikes
whats your sporting background.
dancing on ice or xfactor

I'm pretty happy with my current steed, in fact a lot more than happy, its awesome, if i cant do it on that then I cant do it at all. I'll look at a new road bike for 2015, havent even considered it yet but I'd be happy to go back to Kelly's or BMC

Played football mainly, was lucky when I was younger to be involved with a club team to make an all-ireland. Was never good enough to warrant travelling home from college for it though. Spent maybe 10 years then playing on and off, without too much heed, was lucky enough to win a couple of things in Belfast but I'd say I never really got fully fit. For a couple of years either side of 30 I took it seriously, trained a team, selector but I suppose I found there was a big difference in a team that gets to an all-ireland and other teams, people knowing what it takes, the effort that it takes. Anyway between that and just being constantly sore I decided to learn how to swim and get into this lark. Hung up my boots, went back two years later to help out a friend for one match, ended up with back injury, sciatica, back surgery, that was December 2011. So that is definitely that, although I'd love a game.
Tried my hand at soccer, rugby, basketball and enjoyed them all but no real talent

Wouldnt really watch that much telly but I like music so x-factor

Green&Red

Dory Dory wrote: »

Hi G&R!

How tall are you?
How much do you weigh? (if that's not too rude...which compared to Bambaata's question about number 2.....:eek:;):))
What part of Mayo are you from?
How many bikes do you have, and could you tell us a little about them?

6ft, just!
77kg as of this morning, i've been aiming for 75 for a while now

Outside Ballina

three at the minute
A POS, raleigh, weights a tonne, for heading out for the nite, I despise it, i would pay someone to steal it I think. I have to get around to selling it but it is handy

Ned, bought almost five years ago to replace a trek which was robbed. What a great bike, at this stage everything needs replacing and I'd be better off just buying a new bike but I just love it too much

Molly, with a Zipp 404 and 808 combo, an absolute demon of a bike, although not great on the old tight turnarounds

Green&Red

EC1000 wrote: »

20km bike PB?
40km bike PB?
5km run PB?
10km run PB?

The bike PBs, I dont know. I'd be sub 30 for the 20k TT, dont know if I'd break the hour mark for 40k. 30:40 was my best tri 20k last year.

5k - 19.22
10k -39.58

shotgunmcos

Can you eat a heaped dessert spoon of cinnamon? No water allowed

Oryx

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Can you eat a heaped dessert spoon of cinnamon? No water allowed

If you do this quiz I'm gonna ask are you a COMPLETE NUTTER? Who does things like that?

G&R...
What do you eat on the bike? (Not cinnamon I presume)
Who would you most like to be stuck in a lift with?
What is your party piece?

MrCreosote

What was the most fantastic journey you've had on motorised transport? Car, bus, plane, helicopter, chairoplane, whatever.

And what was the worst?

Green&Red

littlemsfickle wrote: »

....but what about red???

Red is a close second obviously!

I'm still heart broken after September

Green&Red

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Can you eat a heaped dessert spoon of cinnamon? No water allowed

I've never tried but I'd wager that I could, obviously you'd go about it in one go

On ridiculous eating challenges, coming from a family with 8 kids these came up a lot, I hold the record for quickest time to eat five cream crackers.
Regular taste tests are still held, snack v club milk, heinz v chef etc

Green&Red

Oryx wrote: »

If you do this quiz I'm gonna ask are you a COMPLETE NUTTER? Who does things like that?

G&R...
What do you eat on the bike? (Not cinnamon I presume)
Who would you most like to be stuck in a lift with?
What is your party piece?

Oryx, theres a high probability that I will challenge the brother to that, I have won a days beer for drinking a bottle of soy sauce

On the bike, I try and stay away from sugar, I'd have a ham and cheese sandwich with me and a couple of bananas. Granola bar as a back up

A lift mechanic?
Heard an interview with Dunphy last week on second captains, liked it a lot, I'd say you'd pass a few hours easily enough


Party piece - Oh lord its hard to be humble, a song you can sing without a note in your head

Green&Red

MrCreosote wrote: »

What was the most fantastic journey you've had on motorised transport? Car, bus, plane, helicopter, chairoplane, whatever.

And what was the worst?

WTF is a chairoplane?

While thumbing I got a lift in the back of a cattle lorry in Bolivia, it was three in the morning and full of what were probably commuters. We had a sing off, it was awesome

Coming back from Barcelona tri a couple of years ago, after a nite out and having the FEAR. Plane tried to land twice and pulled out of both. Diverted to Belfast, bus to Dublin followed by train to Cork, nightmare

tunney

Green&Red wrote: »

Oryx, theres a high probability that I will challenge the brother to that, I have won a days beer for drinking a bottle of soy sauce

That's actually rather dangerous and can kill you. Salt content

Green&Red

Had to google that, who knew!

Trig1

If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
If you could change anything about what you have done so far in your life what would it be?
What would be your ideal job?
What is your dream car?
What flavour crisps
Favourite drink?

RacoonQueen

Trig1 wrote: »

If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
If you could change anything about what you have done so far in your life what would it be?
What would be your ideal job?
What is your dream car?
What flavour crisps
Favourite drink?

:mad:

Just as I see the thread

:mad:

Oryx

RacoonQueen wrote: »

:mad:

Just as I see the thread

:mad:

I wouldn't have dared.

Have you ever dressed in drag?

Do you have any pets?

Best advice you ever got?

Dory Dory

What's your sign?
What kind of shoes spend the most time on your feet?
What decade or era do you most relate to or think you belong?
Have you any pre-race superstitions or rituals?
Strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced at a race?

Trig1

RacoonQueen wrote: »

:mad:

Just as I see the thread

:mad:

Ha Ha...got there before you!

RacoonQueen

Favourite run session?
Run PB's 5k + 10k?
Raced any other run distances? Half or Marathon? If not, would you like to or have any plans to?
What's your favourite flavour of crisps? :mad: *trig now joins BTH on my blacklist* :mad:
Any bike race/route anywhere in the world you'd like to do?
You have 1 hour to spend on the bike, you want to do some sort of quality, what do you do?
What are your best swim times?

Green&Red

Trig1 wrote: »

If you could change anything about yourself what would it be?
If you could change anything about what you have done so far in your life what would it be?
What would be your ideal job?
What is your dream car?
What flavour crisps
Favourite drink?

My eyesight, I wear glasses for work, I hate them. Laser surgery is high on my list of priorities but got bumped in 2013 for a bike

Dont have many regrets, maybe work a bit harder in college, not go to the Australia match last saturday and definitely not tell Tunney about the soy sauce

I'm pretty happy with the job I have, find it interesting, I'm on secondment working on this.
Otherwise a vet

Silver A4

Crisps are a tough one, obviously for a crisp sandwich it has to be tayto C&O. Hundy dorys salt and vinegar if you're hungry and then I'm partial to monster munch, rancharos and wheelies. In general I like crisps too much and try and stay away from them, especially as I'm pretty much always trying to drop weight

You can't beat a Guinness but I'd be a fan of a nice malbec or chianti

Green&Red

shotgunmcos wrote: »

Can you eat a heaped dessert spoon of cinnamon? No water allowed

Have you ever done this, I'm interested in the details

Green&Red

Have you ever dressed in drag?
No but I am a fan of a fancy dress, especially for the all-ireland

Do you have any pets?
Living in dublin doesnt really allow for pets and by pet I mean dog, theres no other kind really. Our last dog in mayo died a couple of years ago at 17. We always had a dog around the farm. Some pet lambs along the way too

Best advice you ever got?
For swimming I was told when I couldnt swim more than a length without gasping that I should reach for the wall with every stroke, sorted me out and I probably the most advise I'd give to others starting out swimming

Green&Red

What's your sign?
Leo, raar

What kind of shoes spend the most time on your feet?
Sad to say but probably clarkes work shoes


What decade or era do you most relate to or think you belong?
90's, brit-pop, friends, pulp fiction, shawshank, keith wood, John maughan, radiohead, men behaving badly, father ted

Have you any pre-race superstitions or rituals?
I have a ridiculous fear of cramping which I know can be sorted out by talking salt and water, so I always have a bottle of that with me. If I didnt I would panic and no amount of electrolytes could stop me

Strangest thing you've ever seen or experienced at a race?
Your man at belmullet last year with the shotgun, that really was father ted-esque

Green&Red

Favourite run session?
Track, 200s or 400s, despite not liking running in general I do love the track, it makes you feel like a proper runner

Run PB's 5k + 10k?
5k - 19.22
10k - 39.58
It really is my weakest discipline


Raced any other run distances? Half or Marathon? If not, would you like to or have any plans to?
I've done both, 1.59 about 6 years ago and 3.52 last year. I wouldnt go back to either until I'm happy with my 5k & 10k times

What's your favourite flavour of crisps? :mad: *trig now joins BTH on my blacklist* :mad:
See above RQ, if I had to pick one it would be tayto cheese and onion, and I really dislike King cheese and onion

Any bike race/route anywhere in the world you'd like to do?
Alp d'hues, no contest. Did the tour of flanders this year and really like it, will try another of the one day classics this year, maybe milan-san remo

You have 1 hour to spend on the bike, you want to do some sort of quality, what do you do?
Turbo - probably a set called progressive power, 1 min on, 2 off, 2 on, 2 off, up to 9 on. On being 85% MHR, 60RPM. Its a toughie but great for building power power

What are your best swim times?
I dont know! Sub 7 for 400TT. Looking back at lanesboro and westport last year, both fairly calm sea swims, almost lake like, 13.40. HOTW this year took me 26.55

Trig1

Green&Red wrote: »

Crisps are a tough one, obviously for a crisp sandwich it has to be tayto C&O. Hundy dorys salt and vinegar if you're hungry and then I'm partial to monster munch, rancharos and wheelies. In general I like crisps too much and try and stay away from them, especially as I'm pretty much always trying to drop weight

You can't beat a Guinness but I'd be a fan of a nice malbec or chianti

Ha Ha, were very similar in a lot of ways....especially when it comes to crisps and drink and trying to constantly battle the bulge ( monster munch Mmmmmm)

Green&Red

Thats me done, nothing too hard

Next victim is over here

And good luck to any lurkers doing IM in Oz over the Christmas, I'll be waiting on those rancharos!