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marty
4th December 2010, 10:05
Anyone else heading to the Mount for the Tinman tomorrow? It's my first serious tri (apart from a coouple of sprint-tri warmups in the last few weeks) for ten years - last time I rode my race bike in anger was Taupo Ironman in 2001..... :scooter:
chanceyy
4th December 2010, 10:23
good luck for the tri tomorrow, completed a leg of around taupo last weekend, g/friend & others are still trying to convince me to enter a tri .. currently I compete as part of teams I cycle .. this body does not swim or run :nono: :shutup:

doing a few tri's in march down this way ;)
Grumpy Gnomb
4th December 2010, 16:24
doing Panasonic duathlon at Mission Bay Tomorrow (cant do the tri as I would drown) so good luck tomorrow for your one
Usarka
4th December 2010, 16:53
Hopefully you've experienced a swim start in the warmups.

Tip - resist the temptation to go hard out on the swim (usually happens when you're in the middle of the washing machine). Far better to lose 2 minutes on the swim and come out of the water with energy to burn.

Enjoy! :wari:
marty
4th December 2010, 17:13
Good luck for yours too.

I'm actually thinking about starting an open water tri swim squad. I have a little experience in swimming....
MisterD
6th December 2010, 09:21
Results then? Surely you did better than Peter Williams?
marty
6th December 2010, 11:17
yeah a little better. around 40th out of the swim, had an OK bike - needed to keep holding back though as my running mileage was not great and i was concerned about how i was going to manage the mount base track at the end of the run. still averaged 34kmh on the bike, but i have previously averaged over 40k - (that was ten years ago though, and i totally paid for it on the run). i just focussed on my own race and finishing it. 12 weeks ago i was 110kg and couldn't run to the end of the street, so i'm pretty happy really. finished around mid-field overall

the event as always was managed really well, and went off without a hitch. i even won a $250 spot prize voucher for some new Rudy Project glasses :)
MisterD
6th December 2010, 11:56
Well done that man. I'm toying with the idea of a Tri at some point but I swim like an egg whisk, lots of splashing but very little forward movement.

At least I seem to have found my cycling legs again as of this weekend...Q-rings FTW (or at least FT last-a-fair-bit-longer-before-being-dropped)