Dublin city tri

noc231073

Does the Dublin city tri sell out fast normally ?

Podge83

noc231073 wrote: »

Does the Dublin city tri sell out fast normally ?

Entries available close to date last year (and last year hosted national champs). Race has a large capacity. Although you never know.......... Don't blame me if it sells out!!

noc231073

Thanks

BohToffee

I competed in the super sprint last year and got an email saying only 200 entries left... Fantastic race though I didn't think that at the time, wouldn't be the fittest so boy was I tired after it...

PWEI

Anybody know if they have a standby list for cancellations? I sent them a message on FB but didn't get a reply. I was busy preparing for Challenge Roth & forgot to enter before it sold out.

iwillhtfu

Put up a post on their fb page and you might get a reply from someone who can't take part.

PWEI

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Put up a post on their fb page and you might get a reply from someone who can't take part.

Thanks. I got a reply from them but all they said was they are fully booked & nothing about race transfers.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

PWEI wrote: »

Thanks. I got a reply from them but all they said was they are fully booked & nothing about race transfers.

I have an entry for sale if they will allow transfers.

PWEI

Aranza Obnoxious Shredder wrote: »

I have an entry for sale if they will allow transfers.

I'd buy it off you if they allow transfers but I don't think they do.
As far as I know they only offer refunds up to a certain date.

Maybe you could drop them an email & ask them if you could transfer your entry.
You never know.


http://www.dublincitytriathlon.com/contact-us

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

PWEI wrote: »

I'd buy it off you if they allow transfers but I don't think they do.
As far as I know they only offer refunds up to a certain date.

Maybe you could drop them an email & ask them if you could transfer your entry.
You never know.


http://www.dublincitytriathlon.com/contact-us

Have sent them an email already, i will let you know.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

No transfers allowed.

PWEI

Aranza Obnoxious Shredder wrote: »

No transfers allowed.

Thanks for trying anyway.

Don't understand why they won't allow transfers. A guy from my club transferred his Lost Sheep entry to me yesterday by simply emailing Cork Tri Club with my details. What's so special about Dublin City Tri that they don't do transfers.

Podge83

PWEI wrote: »

Thanks for trying anyway.

Don't understand why they won't allow transfers. A guy from my club transferred his Lost Sheep entry to me yesterday by simply emailing Cork Tri Club with my details. What's so special about Dublin City Tri that they don't do transfers.

Cork Tri Club stopped taking Lost Sheep transfers today

Kurt Godel

Brilliant race today, Aaron O'Brien followed by Tomasz Gagola and Aidan Callaghan. Alex Gray in 4th was way down in the swim, unusual for him. He had a great run though. Very well marshalled and organised, one of the best in fact. The bendy bike course seemed to limit the amount of draughting. I was in a later wave so got to see how proper swimmers take on a race... Harris with O'Brien on his tail exited in 18:xx... unreal!

Results

adamski8

the best organised and pleasant race ive done. weather was great and i cant fault anything. erdinger and ice cream at the end was a great bonus. im not a big fan of medals but this was a pretty cool one, getting your times straight away was great too. excellent cycle jacket as well made it great value.

lovely swim, nice smooth bike course and not boring like some others. nice half off road run too.

cjt156

Piranha nailed it again. Great day, really enjoyed it as usual.
The 5 laps mean even slow pokes like me get to see the eletes as they flash by all carbon and sperm hats . You can pretend you're part of the action, at least until last lap when everyone else is long gone.
Home again, time for a soak with those STINKING bath salts!

iwillhtfu

As cjt156 said above. I think this has to be up there with the best if not the best organised tri of the season.
Plenty of food and grub afterwards aswell.

The Liffey was full of reeds which was a shame it felt like something was trying to drag you down at times.
What was with the feckin flies on the run?

All in all a great event and look forward to doing it again next year. Well done Piranha tri club.

Doeshedare

Well done to Piranha again. 3rd time doing it and the standard of organisation remains excellent. The positive attitude of their volunteers really helped me get around.

I was in Wave 5 and found the swim very busy, took a few hundred metres to get some room. Looking at the results and fellas at the top end were maybe 30secs slower than last year?
The bike was congested as ever though the first couple of laps were fine & fast, the next two got a bit tricky with slow relay cyclists who generally were'nt as road aware. The last bike lap and the 2nd run were a little lonely given my wave.

My run was disappointing, that cross country bit really slowed me down, the flies did'nt help either. Overall I was a little quicker than last year but short of my target.

And then over the finish line, immediate results, ice cream, medal (ok I dont need a medal but..).

Oh and a cycling jacket which I badly needed.

Shedite27

Anyone got any tips for getting off temporary tattoos?

Doeshedare

Shave?

My leg one crumbled in the bath (smelly bath with those stinky salts in the goody bag - she told me to use them or lose them) coz it was stuck to my hairs. My arm isnt as manly so I reckon it'll be there for a while.

A chap I swim with had his HOTW ones for a couple of weeks, badge of honour perhaps.

noc231073

Well done DCT. What a great event ...

conor_mc

Vaseline or baby oil, according to the instructions. Vaseline worked for me.

Oh, and great job yet again Piranha!

KillianByrne

Really enjoyed that, well done DCT & Piranha.

Kurt Godel

I watched the first 4 or 5 swim waves go off in the Oly, and there's a severe amount of Tri tourists and attention seekers who must feel the spotlight only shines for them. Within 60 seconds of the first wave- no more than that- a very rotund man was grasping on to a kayak out of breath, another was slowly breast-stroking with his head out of water, and a couple more slowly keeping them company. This in the fastest wave, where you had to estimate your swim time. I watched as these lads (blue caps) exited about an hour later having been overtaken by at least three other waves.

There's a mandatory amount of kayaks for safety reasons, and while conditions were good today, these gobshytes who obviously felt they deserved to be in the fastest wave, had taken out two or three of said kayaks for their own solipsism. The vast majority of people in Tri are sound, but the ego on some... sheesh!:D

RacoonQueen

Yeah, someone insisted to me that the waves were 'random'. They were not, well the first one certainly wasn't as it was meant to be elite - surely all 'elites' should be 25 minutes at the slowest? Swim seemed slow though (as an onlooker) one from our club who I'd have expected as 23:xx was 28 though maybe he just had a bad day.

Aaron O'Brien lost his googles and hat in the water and still managed to swim on to get out of the water second!! Impressive. Not sure how I'd react to losing my googles

Oryx

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Not sure how I'd react to losing my googles

Two years ago I saw a guy swimming who had lost his goggles at the skirmish of the start of the double oly. Only time he could see anything was when he sighted, and his eyes must have been raw doing that. He was a bit all over the place but battling on. I was very impressed.

cjt156

Saw that at the first wave off, thought it would end badly. Perhaps novices need to go in the last wave until they have a proven time in a TI swim? Then divide the waves on actual times not self estimates.

Shedite27

Kurt Godel wrote: »

This in the fastest wave, where you had to estimate your swim time.

There was no estimate on the signup page this year. I noticed as it was the first year I was going to put down a faster (or at least less slow) estimated time. No idea how they divided the waves, it must either have been by age group or peopl ein a club first.

Isn't it better to have them random anyway? If you have a spread of different abilities it will thin itself out naturally over 250m, rahter than if you have 75 people all aiming for 25-30mns it would be very crowded.

Kurt Godel

Shedite27 wrote: »

There was no estimate on the signup page this year. I noticed as it was the first year I was going to put down a faster (or at least less slow) estimated time. No idea how they divided the waves, it must either have been by age group or peopl ein a club first.

Isn't it better to have them random anyway? If you have a spread of different abilities it will thin itself out naturally over 250m, rahter than if you have 75 people all aiming for 25-30mns it would be very crowded.

If thats the case I stand corrected: those guys had every right to be there so.

However, I'd be of the view that random waves are unfair to speedsters starting in the later waves, as they encounter increased congestion. It's easier to draught too if the bunches have clear water ahead. Certainly my (later wave 6) Sprint swim was slowed by the congestion coming back.

Doeshedare

I was in wave 5 which I was surprised at because I am sub 30. So I compared last years finishers with this years wave 5 and everyone that did both last year and was in wave 5 was over 40. I mentioned this to a relative of the race director and apparently they were a mix of age/ability and randomness. So in Wave 1 the top guys were all there but then there was randomness thrown in (including a few over 40's). The idea I believe (and this is 2nd hand) was to shorten the length of the race overall. If the slowest were all in Wave 5 then the last guy over the line would have been at about a quarter past two. As it happened one the last few guys, a man in his fifties from sunny and flat Floriday came in at about 10 to 2. He was in wave 5 (and found the water freezing).

On a seperate note, Kurt - I think I am reading that you nearly completed the Lough Dan 10k on Saturday and then a wee sprint on Sunday? Fair play to you!

and still ricky villa

My first Olympic and I was turfed in the first wave. I'm only swimming 2 years and this was cruel at best. I did question it once I saw what wave I was in and was told it was to avoid everyone at the same level battering each other the whole way round the course. I can see the reasoning in that but I was one of the slow pokes you mentioned Kurt Godel.

But at registration on Saturday I asked again if I could be put in a later wave and was told not to worry about it. I was passed by the next wave and the first few from the 3rd wave so this could use a little thought. I had warned them I would be dead slow and as I was being passed I spent most of the swim nearer the bank than the middle to stay out of the way. I got the best view of the reeds of anyone out there.

But, loved the bike route and found the run challenging. I normally train on grass for energy sapping runs, but have never raced on it so it was an unusual experience. Made up a bunch of places on the bike and run and learned a lot about my swim. I know it needs work but this just confirmed it.

tunney

what estimated swim time did you put down?

and still ricky villa

On entry on the TI page I put down 50 minutes as my swim time. I wound up being closer to the hour, disappointed with that as I had done a couple of sprints/aquathons in the run up and come out in under 20 minutes for the 750m

darraghsherwin

Have to congratulation Prihana on such a well organised race. It was my first triathlon and went for olympic distance.
There was loads of marshalls and they were great at motivating people in the race.
I was in wave 4, had estimated my time at 45 mins but I was shocked by the coldness of the water and panicked at the start of the swim so I probably looked like one of those "Tri tourists" before I settled myself into the swim and got the face in the water. I did the swim in 36 mins in the end.

The bike leg was good, nice mix of a drags and flats but some very tight turns. The run was lovely as I run mostly on forest trails so I could keep a nice steady pace and keep the legs moving.

Will definitely do it again and hopefully faster next time.

Darragh

RacoonQueen

From a spectators point of view I thought the turn from military road to the Kyber looked badly designed. Barriers didn't need to be in the middle for the people just entering the park and loads of near misses from people who thought it was a good idea to overtake coming round the bend...and a few just nearly hitting the barriers. Obviously makes the course more technical and difficult having the barriers there (perhaps that was the point) but the overtaking on the bend was looking really dangerous

iwillhtfu

I'd agree with the above. A lot of folks seemed to think that while I was slowing and taking a wide angle into the corner it'd be a good idea to cut down the inside only for me to pass them on the straight again. One lad completely misjuged one bend and ended up on the grass.

Another thing on the bike route was that feckin sunken drain on the inside of one of the bends. It was marked but that really could've lead to a bad accident.

Other than that it was a good albeit technical course. The only advantage in having a tri bike would've been down Chesterfield ave and even at that I was catching/passing some of the slower guys on tri bikes on the twisty sections. Obviously those who are strong on a tri bike would've passed me on a tricycle.

Great day though

Shedite27

I found the bike course challenging but fair, it had everything, climbs, descents, variety of corners, and a nice flat bit for striaght line speed. Proper test of biking ability. My nemesis was this corner....
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.358966,+-6.350377&num=1&t=h&vpsrc=0&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=A

The best line through it was a fairly rough patch, but I seemed to be overtaken most times I went through it. Think I hit it right once out of 5 attempts.

Great race tho, hats off to Pirhana. Great event, great atmosphere, great value too (although it was tricky to carry a granola bar, coco milk, pint and a 99 all at once!). I'll be back.

Green&Red

Really enjoyed marshalling for this, good craic and nice weather
Would love to race in the PP, esp a bike route like that

If someone was to undertake me on a bend in a race I would have some choice words

PWEI

When I did Dublin City two years ago the waves were done on age groups & definitely weren't done on estimated swim times.

The 2nd last wave was the 40-44 AG & the last wave was 45 & up.

A lad I work with in his late 40's who is a very strong swimmer was in the last wave but did a 22:47 swim in the Olympic.

adamski8

Kurt Godel wrote: »

If thats the case I stand corrected: those guys had every right to be there so.

Well not ever right, if someone can barely last 100m swimming then they shouldnt even be in the super sprint let alone the olympic.

MRJ

This was my second attempt at the Olympic distance, found the swim grand (if a bit cold) apart from being a bit slower than i thought i'd be! Thought the bike route was brilliant I was in the first wave so had a lap or two of the route were it wasn't as congested. Then struggled on the run. All in all a very well organised event.

@Green&Red ....I wonder who was responsible for the up Mayo sprayed on the road before the dismount line?:)

pot p

First time doing the Dublin tri, taught it was very well run apart from I counted my laps wrong and did six laps.

MojoMaker

5 little balls of blu-tack on your cross bar and remove one for each lap, keeps you honest when the effort is being put in.

Superb organisation, kudos to Piranha for one of the best races of 2014. My first DCT but have already pencilled this in for next year.

Congrats on your AG win by the way KG - strong showing.

Kurt Godel

One piece of information we ask for during entry is swim time. We do not put the top 120 swimmers in wave 1 otherwise you would have everyone swimming on top of each other at the same pace. Instead we mix the waves and in fact put the slowest 30 people in wave 1. This means they are involved more in the race with the other waves still to go and are not left on the course on the run on their own.

As per their mass email last night. The inclusive thinking behind this is commendable (to say nothing of limiting the time the marshalls would have to stay on the course), but my personal opinion is that athletes who have difficulty swimming should have availed of the Super Sprint option when signing up.

cjt156

Fair point, I can see the thinking behind that. I do think its irresponsible for an entrant to start an event like that so unprepared. I'm not a elitist by any means but there were a lot of raised eyebrows on the river bank Saturday morning.

rainbow kirby

When we were leaving the ExCeL after the London Triathlon earlier this month, we saw a couple of the last swim finishers from the last male Olympic age group swim wave. They would have been in the water for around 75 minutes at this stage... and looked like they were almost clinging to the safety kayaks to complete the swim with a mixture of breaststroke and doggy paddle. That's dangerous, and a bit unfair to the kayakers and other competitors really - I cannot imagine why someone would want to put themselves through that knowing that they would struggle so much with the swim, particularly when they have shorter options and there are plenty of duathlons around too.

Podge83

This is a great race and with the barriers that putting on such in an event in a city throws up John and all at Piranha deserve great credit putting this race on year after year.

One big problem is the width of the river, and with "two way" traffic the width is halved. Getting the swimmers away without incident is probably one of the biggest headaches for the organizers. You will always get novices in races such as this. Distribution of abilities is important so that the fight for space spreads out quickly. This isn't so important when you have a bay or lake to spread out into.

Wave one obviously needs to have all front runners in it and will be no place for the faint-hearted. "start at the back" is the instruction but sometimes people can be caught in the middle which in most waves of this race can be worse that at the very front.

Everyone has to do a first "olympic" at some stage and due to its size and location the DCT is a place where this will happen.

Spreading out the abilities is important (in the waves), but probably keeping novices out of wave 1 might be an idea.

All that said beginners to the distance (not triathlons) can have a comfortable time with the use of common sense.

adamski8

Yeah i think mainly people are commenting on people seemily doing their first ever tri and not being able to swim. No one is saying they have to be going a certain speed but to be having to doggy paddle your way round you shouldn't be doing a triathlon (never mind olympic distance).

The kayakers should be there for people who get in difficulty for reasons other than they decided doing a tri would be great craic and can't complete a length of a pool without struggling.

Ive seen this happen at a few sprints before but first time at an Olympic distance. Not that i think much can be done about it.

Green&Red

MRJ wrote: »

@Green&Red ....I wonder who was responsible for the up Mayo sprayed on the road before the dismount line?:)

There would have been a lot more if my paint supply hadn't been curtailed!

tunney

Green&Red wrote: »

There would have been a lot more if my paint supply hadn't been curtailed!

Was a mighty battle at the weekend in Croke park for the coveted title of 2014 All-Ireland runners up.

Up the Dubs

Shedite27

Was it my imagination or were there more waves in the past? Going off every 10mns? Would that not thin the crowd?