TriAthy 2nd/3rd June

It's a probable for me.

i had decided to race much less this year but this could end up being my 3rd of the season

mike.l wrote: »

Tempted ....be a first for me, the beginners one looks an ideal entry tri! have no bike and I only usually swim a couple of times a year, have I enough time?

Plenty of time!

The Try-a-tri last year consisted of a completely downstream swim (you could lay on your back and float down!) two out and back laps on the bike (all kindsof bikes from Tribikes to sit up and begs) and a short enough run (up hill at the start but downhill and flat along the river afterwards).

There's plenty of training plans for Sprints on the internet (www.beginnertriathlete.com) so just train towards one of them and see how you fare.

Holly Ambitious Talc wrote: »

http://www.triathy.ie/2012entry/index.php/register-2

Who is in for this? I have registered for the sprint with what should be my first tri of the year with the way the diary is shaping up.

I'll probably do it.

I swore last year that I wouldn't, as the new Olympic bike route was terrible - poor surface and had cyclists going both ways over narrow winding country roads (overtaking was taking your life into your hands). Also, the running trail down beside the river is also very difficult to overtake on (got bloody hot last year as well).

Still, the draw of trying to beat my time from last year means I'll grudgingly sign up.

elvis jones wrote: »

That weekend i shall mainly spend my time being rather annoying on the mic:cool:

Oh and i have to sort out a flag for couerdelion.

Every fecking flag but the UK one last year! I think I ended up carrying Honuras or something.

You also said you were going to sort out "Eye of the Tiger" for when I run down the finish chute?

(I can see it now that I'll probably get YMCA played instead!)

I registered for the Olympic but with Fingal on the week before I think I may change it to the Sprint. Has anyone switched races before?

Double Olympic
Name|Swim|T1|Bike|T2|Run|Total Time
911SC|1:15|0:02|2:45|0:01|2:00|6:03|
Oryx|1:15||2:45||2:00|6:00|


Olympic
Name|Swim|T1|Bike|T2|Run|Total Time
nerraw1111|
ray o|
Fazz|



Sprint
Name|Swim|T1|Bike|T2|Run|Total Time
RacoonQueen||||||3:00|
mickmc7|
Daz1214|

Double for me but its a tune up for kilkee

Hello Elvis,

Would you have a contact I could email about switching from Olympic to Sprint race? I sent a mail from the old website over 3 weeks ago and heard nothing back.

Done. Thanks for your help.

mickmc7 wrote: »

Does the fact that it's part of the National Series mean there'll be way more "proper athletes" competing in the sprint than would normally be the case in a sprint race elsewhere?

Basically yes this applies when comparing any race to a national series race.

But more so for Athy because it offers better points than your average sprint or Olympic race.
The reason it returns better than average points is due to the large entry field, meaning top guys gap the 30%th person scoring points by more than average as more people enter.
This in return means more points when compared to that person (TI benchmark each race the TI registered athlete finishing in top 30th percent gets 100 points. All others multiple based on time differential).
Ok it ain't easy to explain


I see Bill McCormack is in for the sprint

Chatting to Jackyback this evening I realise that this is actually turning out to be a stacked event.....stacked with boardies

BetterThanHoyte wrote: »

El Director wrote: »

Chatting to Jackyback this evening I realise that this is actually turning out to be a stacked event.....stacked with boardies

Somebody with the time and patience for such a thing should set up a table of those competing. I dunno who, maybe somebody on an easy training week and a week off work.....

Well I'm in the airport now and off to Amsterdam, but I'll see what I can do and when I can do

elvis jones wrote: »

That should be sorted now !

Thanks Elvis, got a mail from the team early this morning to confirm the switch.