triathy

jamieold

Does anyone know if you can switch from Olympic to Sprint in Arty or is it too late? No number on-line and email sent but no response. Thanks

Oryx

Im waiting on a response to an email for two weeks. Good luck with that.

Brick Session

I think from reading feedback over the last few years, they are fairly poor on responding to e-mails etc. You might end up at the Olympic distance after all.

Oryx

Well they are following up on emails, my query got sorted by a very helpful guy just this evening.

bryangiggsy

Oryx wrote: »

Well they are following up on emails, my query got sorted by a very helpful guy just this evening.

Arthur@triathy.com

Oryx

bryangiggsy wrote: »

Arthur@triathy.com

Very nice man, Arthur.

Claude Burgundy

Oryx wrote: »

Well they are following up on emails, my query got sorted by a very helpful guy just this evening.

miller82

anyone have an idea of what time the double olympic and oly waves are off at ?

Podge83

miller82 wrote: »

anyone have an idea of what time the double olympic and oly waves are off at ?

Its all here:

http://my.triathy.ie/2014downloads/TriAthy2014-Outline%20Schedule.pdf

miller82

Podge83 wrote: »

Its all here:

http://my.triathy.ie/2014downloads/TriAthy2014-Outline%20Schedule.pdf

cheers

Daz1214

Still no waves!!

miller82

waves are up, but like everty other year, their website has crashed.

they are on facebook. in Wave 6. would have liked to be heading off earlier, but thats the luck of the draw

Chartsengrafs

I signed up for the (evening!) sprint for some reason, hopefully I'll be finishing in daylight. Going to be a long day..

mossym

Basster wrote: »

I signed up for the (evening!) sprint for some reason, hopefully I'll be finishing in daylight. Going to be a long day..

i was in the very last wave last year. you'll be done in daylight..:)

twenty8

Really looking forward to it. There are 911 people in the Sprint!!! <Gulp>

pauldoo

i see registration finishes at 8.30 or so, does that mean you have to have bike etc set up or can that be done later in the day

im in wave 7 of the sprint, so will be a bit of a wait from 8.30 am to 6pm

mossym

there is a second registration in the afternoon i am pretty sure

Zebrano

There is registration from 12 to 2.30 i think

Grassey

miller82 wrote: »

. in Wave 6.

Same as myself then!

Daz1214

Wave 5 for me

Briando

Was in for a swim there on Tuesday and again today.. was grand, not cold at all.

pauldoo

Briando wrote: »

Was in for a swim there on Tuesday and again today.. was grand, not cold at all.

did you do it sunday?

Daz1214

Was there wednesday, how did you find the flow?

Podge83

Not that I'll be bothering them in this respect, but am I reading it right that the winner of the Double Oly Gets €140, Olympic gets €125 & Sprint gets €100.00 - seems tight for a race of this stature.

ructions

Wave 5 for me. Looking forward to it. Prizes always seem tight to me for these corporate big races. At lough cutra last weekend some of the prizes were 50% off next year race that's just brutal if you ask me.

Oryx

ructions wrote: »

50% off next year race .

Thats not a prize, thats a joke.

griffin100

Oryx wrote: »

Thats not a prize, thats a joke.

Depends how expensive the entry fee is Seriously that is pretty poor, but it's not too far off the Athy prizes.

Athy would take in over €120k in race entry fees*, plus sponsorship monies. It gives back from what I can see less than €1k in prizes. Someone somewhere is potentially making a lot of money from this, so kudos to them. People seem to like this race for some reason.

*Sprint has approx 725 entries
Olympic has approx 753 entries
Double Olympic has approx 209 entries
Tri Athy has approx 222 entries

Oryx

griffin100 wrote: »

Depends how expensive the entry fee is Seriously that is pretty poor, but it's not too far off the Athy prizes.

Athy would take in over €120k in race entry fees*, plus sponsorship monies. It gives back from what I can see less than €1k in prizes. Someone somewhere is potentially making a lot of money from this, so kudos to them. People seem to like this race for some reason.

*Sprint has approx 725 entries
Olympic has approx 753 entries
Double Olympic has approx 209 entries
Tri Athy has approx 222 entries

They used to give AG prizes too, if they still do it increases the prize fund.

Podge83

The overall fund is about 5k (the age group prizes in the Olympic distance make up most of it).

They say in the briefing that the Olympic distance winner actually gets €330 - They get both AG and winners prize (however, when added these only come to €185.00 - something wrong there - I wonder if that's a "copy and paste" error from last year?

Anyway, its still a ****e prize for the M and F winner (€185.00).

Edit - The above should be read in line with the statement in the briefing - prizes may be cash or vouchers!!

Podge83

Anyway - more importantly for us mere mortals and so as i can sleep tonight - has the flow on the river eased from last week? - anyone get a look?

pauldoo

Podge83 wrote: »

Anyway - more importantly for us mere mortals and so as i can sleep tonight - has the flow on the river eased from last week? - anyone get a look?

i really hope so, and temperature has increased by about 10 degrees. i was hoping a laundry factory would open up up-stream and pump out some nice warm water into the river

Shedite27

Looking forward to tomorrow. Did the Olympic last year, Double Olympic this year. The water there is lovely, wasn't too warm or cold last year, the flow will be behind ya for half the race anyway so it'll balance out. The road route is lovely, looking forward to an 80k cycle with no cars to worry about. The run, I'm not so keen on, lots of dodgy surface, but we'll get there.

Best of luck everyone!

joeKel73

Was looking forward to my first triathlon (sprint) of the year tomorrow but absolutely dosed with the cold! Sickened!

My girlfriend's taking part so will be down for the day anyway, taking photos.

3102derek

Shedite27 wrote: »

Looking forward to tomorrow. Did the Olympic last year, Double Olympic this year. The water there is lovely, wasn't too warm or cold last year, the flow will be behind ya for half the race anyway so it'll balance out. The road route is lovely, looking forward to an 80k cycle with no cars to worry about. The run, I'm not so keen on, lots of dodgy surface, but we'll get there.

Best of luck everyone!

The middle section of the cycle is rotten. When you turn of the athy-carlow road until you hit the athy-castledermot road. its horrible

NeedsTraining

Shedite27 wrote: »

Looking forward to tomorrow. Did the Olympic last year, Double Olympic this year. The water there is lovely, wasn't too warm or cold last year, the flow will be behind ya for half the race anyway so it'll balance out. The road route is lovely, looking forward to an 80k cycle with no cars to worry about. The run, I'm not so keen on, lots of dodgy surface, but we'll get there.

Best of luck everyone!

Shedite, is this the big blow out before Austria? You going to use it as a training session or going to race it?

Best of luck, I'll be in amongst the group there somewhere

splanagan22

What will the entry roads to athy be like tomorrow. I'm in the sprint and in wave 6 but don't want to be down there waiting all day, was planning on being there for about 1-2. Will this be possible.

Shedite27

NeedsTraining wrote: »

Shedite, is this the big blow out before Austria? You going to use it as a training session or going to race it?

Yeah this is the main trial run. Gonna race the swim and cycle, then take it easy on the run. That's the plan anyway, we'll see how that pans out. Best of luck to you too

By the way, starting waves for 3 of the races are in groups of 80-90ppl, Double Olympic has 208 in the one wave. Should be interesting.

Briando

pauldoo wrote: »

did you do it sunday?

Yes, did it Sunday. I was in again today and it was not cold. Level of water in river has dropped again, still a nice flow out in the middle but its definitely easing off. I comfortably swam the sprint distance tonight, easier than last sunday.

joeKel73

Anyone know is it possible to transfer an entry to someone else on the day? All I can see on the website/docs is there's no refunds and I can't race today.

Shedite27

I should have worn sunscreen

Oryx

God I would have loved to do this today. Great day for it!

Zebrano

Shedite27 wrote: »

I should have worn sunscreen

Yep

Grassey

Results up here.

http://t.co/cAmWQRAvQo

NeedsTraining

Shedite27 wrote: »

I should have worn sunscreen

You and me both. Completely forgot about it and scalded now.

Won't be forgetting it going to Austria.

How did you get on today?

Podge83

Diverted from pipers to Order of Malta van for the dose of sunscreen!!!

Great day, well organised race, Still a ****e run, still a few dodgy spots on "technical" section of bike, nice buzz about.

Did people think there was much of a flow in the river?

EC1000

Podge83 wrote: »

Did people think there was much of a flow in the river?

This was my fourth time in Athy and the flow was definitely stronger than ever today. Had to work just to stay put for the start!

twenty8

Flow was fine compared to last weekend. But apparently a lot of people needed help getting out etc.

Fair play to the organisers. Terrific day and all seemed to run v smoothly. First Tri completed!

3102derek

Couple of dodge times in the double. 55min 20k run total I don't think so. Will they fix them over the next few days

pauldoo

Podge83 wrote: »

Diverted from pipers to Order of Malta van for the dose of sunscreen!!!

Great day, well organised race, Still a ****e run, still a few dodgy spots on "technical" section of bike, nice buzz about.

Did people think there was much of a flow in the river?

No where near as bad as last Sunday, these are my only 2 open water swims so haven't much to compare. Took me 24 mins last week and 12 this week. Was more bout the cold last week for me

pauldoo

3102derek wrote: »

Couple of dodge times in the double. 55min 20k run total I don't think so. Will they fix them over the next few days

My run is comin in at 16 mins for the 5km, couldn't do that if I was on roller blades

Seanie_H

EC1000 wrote: »

This was my fourth time in Athy and the flow was definitely stronger than ever today. Had to work just to stay put for the start!

Today was my first time in the Barrow. I did the Double Oly and I'm fairly inexperienced outside of the pool. It was a great learning experience. Interesting mind battle fighting the flow.... Moving so slow but the downstream was great fun.

Did anybody leave food/bottle with the marshalls? I went to pick up mine at 70 km but nobody knew anything about it. Messed my gel strategy a bit.

I'll be a regular on this in future. Really enjoyed the day.