Tri-Athy.........call your time.

tunguska

McTigs wrote: »

Went back to galway and got plastered and bragged to anyone who'd listen.... people were just walking away from me in the end.

Ha ha Mc Tigs thats classic. Ive had the same experience, I guess at the end of the day you gotta be happy for yourself, thats all that matters:).

Ive read on these boards that the results were available at the finish line. In fairness somebody shouldve been telling people when they crossed the finish line this information. But I suppose thats a minor gripe because all in all I had a great day, my first proper tri-athlon(ive done 3 indoor sprint triathlons)and it was pure adrenalin. It was over in a flash though, one minute I was in the water getting ready for the swim and next minute Im crossing the finish line for the run. I was a little disappointed in my bike time although that head wind was a bastard(also got sunburned to bits). The results arent up on the website yet but I clocked the individual events myself so Here are my results without transition times:

1.5km Swim = 23 mins

40km Bike = 1hr 07mins

10km run = 34mins

I'll update exact times when I get them. One more thing, I was wearing a garmin and Im not sure that the 10km run was 10km. I think it couldve been short. Could somebody confirm this?

Well done to everybody who raced.

Manone

Anyone find it interesting that times given on the computer were the same for both T1 and T2 from the computer after the race. Curious as T2 is normally quicker than T1. This held true for a few of my mates and myself. I know it probably has something to do with where the mats are actually positioned and where I perceived transition to end.

Maybe this is something that gets sorted out once they have correlated all the results and the current results are only provisional.

gombeen99

They must have got the T1 and T2 same time issue sorted by the time I finished & printed my results from the kiosk, I was in the 6th wave in the sprint race. My times were very different T1 3.30 (I could have put the kettle on & had a cup of tea in that time but instead I had wetsuit issues!) and T2 1.10, and these are definitely fairly accurate.

richiemack

I really enjoyed the day, swim and bike were excellent, but run was a killer for me per usual, different ailment this time though. Overall time 1.21 swim 8 mins, cycle 36/7 mins, and run 30mins, Cramped up really bad at the start of the run, then my stomach started at me, in the end I had to jump in a ditch as I though I was going to crap myself, tri suit round my knees, totally degrading, and a massive explosion of air!! dont worry not crap. Can't figure out what it was all about. Everything went fine right up untill last 2km of the bike, I slowed down and that was me pooped, run was a total killer, and ruined my overall time, nearly felt like giving up!!but I didn't and in the end was delighted I finished, only my 3rd tri so still lots of learning to do

Pisco Sour

Results are up.

Can anybody tell me where exactly the timing mat was positioned for the start of the run? My run seems a good bit slow and my T2 seems far too fast (considering the fiasco I described above). I really hope my 2 minutes of trying to find the start of the run wasnt included in the run!!

Abhainn

Abhainn wrote: »

Hoping for sub 2:30 in the olympic

Maybe something like
swim sub 32min
cycle 1h13min
run sub 40min
T1 & T2 = 5min

Swim 28:10
Bike 1:11:03
Run 37:15
T1&T2 3:30

Total 2:20:01

Yes happy with this. It was well staged, weather super and I had no problems with the heat.
Swim went ok for me and bike better than expected and my entry level bike did well against the many more handsome versions.
Run went very well and just kept the foot down the whole way.


I strolled up to transition well after 9. A bit peed off when I seen we weren't allocated our own slots when we were told otherwise. Eventually found a spot for the bike.
I think they are supposed to post out the T-shirts? Ya ...

Manone

Provisional results up on the triathy site, transition times seem more accurate. Great event and nice course, disappointed with my run time, but happy overall.

Pisco Sour

This may seem like a minor detail but its really important to me, so if anybody could help me with the following it would be greatly appreciated.

When beginning the run everyone ran through a load of mats before turning right. After turning right there was another mat which beeped when I went over it before turning left and then left again which was the start of the first lap. So I'm wondering which of these mats is the start of the run?

The reason I ask is because it I wasted 2 minutes or so in between each of these 2 mats trying to find out where to go for the run! From looking at my run time it appears slower than I would have thought and my T2 time seems faster than I would have thought so am worried that my 2 minutes wasted is included in my run.

Hope I'm making sense.

911sc

04072511 wrote: »

So I'm wondering which of these mats is the start of the run?

The one which beeped. Was located very closed to the finish line if i am not mistaken.

eoin ryan

Suggest you contact the Organisers.... That will clear up the speculation

Eoin

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Éireman - Long, Middle and Olympic distance Triathlon www.eireman.org
23rd August - Courtown Harbour, Co Wexford.

Clum

Clum wrote: »

looking for about 2.30.
Swim 30 mins
Cycle 80 mins
Run 40 mins

2.23. Happy enough. Run and cycle went to plan but I'm only having a laugh in the water. Can't swim fast at all!

Well organised event and a great day was had but the run across the field section should have been rolled. That was fairly dangerous. All in all a thumbs up though.

kramman

1.5km swim 24mins
40km cycle 1hr13mins
10km run 42.56min
Total time 2hr24mins

My T1 and T2 after ther race were both 1.13 but lookin on the triathy web site they are 2mins and 1.13. Must of been some prob with the system or something.

All in all it was a brillant experience and i'm definately doing more. Very well organised event.

Micilin Muc

Was the run a full 10km? My GPS on the day measured it as 9.33km...

warp_speed

Where are the results? When I click the link off the homepage, it just opens the news section that leads nowhere. The results tab along the top doesn't seem to have the 2009 results in there. Got my printout on the day, but want to see where it all went wrong .........

kramman

Not too sure bout the full 10km either. I ran 42.56 which is very good for me and I struggled with the first 2-3 kms.

I see the times are not on the website earlier today. I downloaded an excel file of the olympic results yesterday which i'll e-mail to anyone who wants it.

Pisco Sour

hmmmm I was going to ask the opposite. Was the run longer than 10km!

My time of 57:48 seems awfully slow in comparisson to my 10km PB of 46:59 (obviously a 10km only race). I felt pretty good during the run aswell.

warp_speed

hey Kramman,

would really appreciate if you could email the excel file to taisteal@gmail.com

I clocked the run at about 9.4k. I really struggled home with a 44 min run, impossible for a full 10k. Really surprising considering the way they made you zig-zag through that nightmare of a field. I was wondering though how the GPS responds to quick turnabouts like in the field, does it loose accuracy?

kramman

Hey warp speed,

I've sent that file onto you.

Stark

Did 2:30. First olympic tri and second ever tri so was happy to finish without dying Run was definitely shorter than 10km unfortunately.

MCOS

MCOS wrote: »

Ok, I'll give it a lash but really depends on how I feel on the day if I'll push for these or not

Swim - No idea 24-25 ish
T1 - 1.5mins barring disaster
Bike - 1'06' and change and I'm happy
T2 - less than 60 sec barring disaster
Run - Better than my Joey run of 41'39"

Summed up to just under 2'15 all going well

Swim 22'57" OK
Bike 1'10'39" Rubbish
Run 40'30" OK
Transitions were good.

2'16'32" total . Up the walls at the mo' so I'll stick a report up in a bit.

chelleflife

My first ever Tri too - just did the sprint. Found it tough but considering I couldnt run for a bus in Jan, Im chuffed!

I wasnt the slowest (which was my goal!) and I actually did it in my predicted time of 1 hour 45 (must seem really slow to you Olympians!!) but I actually had a puncture for about 18km!! I knew well the bike felt odd as I had cycled that same road 2 weeks before on the same bike and cruised it. On two occasions I asked marshalls if my tyre looked flat but they couldnt see clearly but thought it looked fine. That was at the 2km and 4km mark (ish). It was only when it was all over and I checked it that I saw it was totally flat and found a piece of glass in it. Ah well, it happens! Im chuffed I didnt have to quit because of it and Im DYING to get back out there next year and kick my own ass!

So now that I have the bug, can any of you experts recommend any more novice friendly tris this summer/autumn? Im a slow runner so the flatter the better but I guess my big concern is the swim. Not sure I could have done that swim upstream! Fair play to all who did! Im soo impressed with your times. Some day...

PS

Sprint results:
Olympic results

And yes - I hear the jerseys will be posted out.

Bambaata

yeah tops are on the way:



EVERY FINISHER OF TRIATHY 2009 WILL RECEIVE AN OFFICIAL RACE T-SHIRT


Our apologies to those of you were disappointed by the lack of race t-shirt at registration. This was due to the fact that our apparel supplier failed to deliver at the 11th hour. We were granted assurances that delivery would be on time for raceday and accordingly that there were be no need to inform you all prior to the race.


We are now in the process of rectifying this and all finishers will be contacted personally by us in the coming weeks to arrange postage.


Please accept our sincere apologies for this delay. We are doing everything we can to get this sorted.


TriAthy Team.

Highway_To_Hell

chelleflife wrote: »

So now that I have the bug, can any of you experts recommend any more novice friendly tris this summer/autumn? Im a slow runner so the flatter the better but I guess my big concern is the swim. Not sure I could have done that swim upstream! Fair play to all who did! Im soo impressed with your times. Some day...

Well done - Carrick on Suir sprint Tri on July 11th would be a good one to do. 750 swim downstream, 20km bike no real hills and a 5 km run slight up hill for 1st 2k and then nice run back along the river.

griffin100

Prediction:

• Swim 34 minutes
• Bike 80 minutes
• Run 53 minutes
• Transitions 3 minutes

Total: 2hrs 50mins

Actual:

• swim 31.23 (must try harder)
• bike 78.06 (need to get a set of tri bars)
• run 50.10 (was happy until I read it was a short course)
• transitions 5.06 :eek:

Total 2.44.50

Really happy with a good day out, apart the woeful transitions.

It was a really well organised and marshalled event but part of the run course was a joke, it should have been rolled. Hopefully no one did an ankle in on the surface.

Noangel72

....I have found Athlone to be very well organised....

http://www.triathlonireland-server.com/Events/EventCalendar

Highway_To_Hell

Anyone else notice that there seemed to be a lot of people picking up punctures/bike problems.

I noticed Gavin Noble running back in with his bike, I presumed he was dropping out but be blasted pass me on the run. It is great to see someone at his level not abandoning the race due to tech problems but to plough on even with a 2+hr bike segment.

Highway_To_Hell

griffin100 wrote: »

It was a really well organised and marshalled event but part of the run course was a joke, it should have been rolled. Hopefully no one did an ankle in on the surface.

+1 on the organisation and the Crosscountry section of the run. I had a slight ankle injury going into the race and went over on it on my second lap which left me hobbling the last few km home.

liamo

Swim : 34:43
T1 : 1:57
Bike : 1:17:37
T2 : 1:47
Run : 53:50
Total : 2:49:57

I was over on all events but it was the swim that I really misjudged badly.
Still, it was my first olympic distance and I'm happy to have it under my belt.
Next stop Dunmore East.

liamo wrote: »

2:45 or under for the olympic would be satisfactory.
2:38 is my target - anything under that would be a bonus.

Swim : 25 minutes
Bike : 75 minutes
Run : 55 minutes
T1 + T2 : 3 minutes

Total: 2hrs 38mins

BombSquad

BombSquad wrote: »

I'm hoping for a 1:15.

Swim 750m 12:00
T1 2:00
Bike 20k 37:00
T2 1:00
Run 23:00

Happy with my result. Prediction was 1:15, did it in 1:12. Down from 1:28 last year.

Swim 11
Cycle 37
Run 21
Transitions 3

Pity about having to wait around from briefing at 4pm to the my wave at 6pm. Also ended up drinking from a used water bottle on the run that I got off a marshall... I was very thirsty!

Must learn to swim so that I can move to the Olympic next year...

Abhainn

I see the 2nd lady home in the Olympic finished first in the Sprint. Could this be an error?
Or is this double racing method popular with elites?

Oh and very impressed with Gavin Noble for not giving up after his bike problems

BombSquad

Abhainn wrote: »

I see the 2nd lady home in the Olympic finished first in the Sprint. Could this be an error?

Not an error. Was at the presentation for the sprint (only watching, not collecting!). Fair play to her. That's serious going...

MCOS

Abhainn wrote: »

I see the 2nd lady home in the Olympic finished first in the Sprint. Could this be an error?
Or is this double racing method popular with elites?

Oh and very impressed with Gavin Noble for not giving up after his bike problems

Nope, I saw Elena Maslova finish both! I agree fair play on Gavin Noble finishing, he had a few miles to jog back with his bike too!

DAVE_K

Swim: 20 min
Cycle: 1:13 min
Run: 44:54 min

Clock time: 2:24, Chip Time: 2:22

Found the swim for this tough and I'd done a lot of training for the swim - couldn't get out of the pack at all. Was in wave 1. Normally I'd hang back, let the crowd thin a bit and swim hard......the crowd never thinned and I just never got going. The cycle for this went better for me than anticipated as I'd prepared poorly. Was happy with the run as I'd been trying to beat a 45 min 10 k (even in a straight up 10 k road race) for some time. I was even happier to do it on the end of a triathlon but slightly deflated at the news it was short. All in all though it was good. I really enjoyed the second leg of the 5 k of the run that went down by the river. Nice to meet MCOS at the end too.
Was staggering around looking for even a banana after the race and found the recovery zone.........by chance.........maybe this could have been highlighted a bit better, but for the size of the event it was well organised.

wellboss

wellboss wrote: »

25 swim
1:05 bike
39 run

2:10 total (hopefully)


I'll be looking for a similar result,

just hope they get my emails and remove me from the sprint and up to the olympic seeing as that's what I paid for.

Managed to get under my estimated time so really happy with the race
swim 22:21
bike 1:04
Run 38:21

finished up with a total of 2:06:56

Anybody have any idea why the run wasn't 10km, its so annoying when its a few hundred meters off and times don't count

wellboss

DAVE_K wrote: »

Swim: 20 min
Cycle: 1:13 min
Run: 44:54 min

Clock time: 2:24, Chip Time: 2:22

Found the swim for this tough and I'd done a lot of training for the swim - couldn't get out of the pack at all. Was in wave 1. Normally I'd hang back, let the crowd thin a bit and swim hard......the crowd never thinned and I just never got going. The cycle for this went better for me than anticipated as I'd prepared poorly. Was happy with the run as I'd been trying to beat a 45 min 10 k (even in a straight up 10 k road race) for some time. I was even happier to do it on the end of a triathlon but slightly deflated at the news it was short. All in all though it was good. I really enjoyed the second leg of the 5 k of the run that went down by the river. Nice to meet MCOS at the end too.
Was staggering around looking for even a banana after the race and found the recovery zone.........by chance.........maybe this could have been highlighted a bit better, but for the size of the event it was well organised.

The reason your clock time and chip time are different by two minutes is because the guy starting the timing system in the van started at 10:32 instead of 10:30. So some of the original printouts were 2 minutes out

tunguska

Yeah the run was definitely short. I clocked it at 9.4km. Thats not on at all. When they say its 10km it should be 10km. They really need to sort that out for next year.

dalkener

Was my first olympic distance tri and really enjoyed it.
A few gripes..

Last year you were allocated your own transition area.
I was in wave 5 and we went off at 11:30 racing through the midday heat.
On the run came to the first water point and they had none left:mad: spent the next half a kilometre kicking bottles on the ground to see if their was anything left in them.

Otherwise a great day and even managed to get into a pub and have a pint of Guinness before the start of the FA cup final!!


Swim- 32mins

Bike - 1'12mins

Run - 51mins

Total time 2'42mins

Pretty happy with that for my first olympic distance

Poncherello

Poncherello wrote: »

Be dleighted with sub 2.20 all depends on my run and how close I can get to 45 mins
anyone any idea which way the wind will be on the bike ?

2.14 delighted with result did the run in 44 which is very good for me
Drafting on bike was a bit of an issue with a lot of guys really taking the piss. I tried my best to race honest but at times I found myself in a group and it was too dangerous to overtake on otherside of white line with all the bikes on the road.

Micilin Muc

tunguska wrote: »

Yeah the run was definitely short. I clocked it at 9.4km. Thats not on at all. When they say its 10km it should be 10km. They really need to sort that out for next year.

Is it common for triathlons/road running races not to be the full distance?

hunnymonster

Micilin Muc wrote: »

Is it common for triathlons/road running races not to be the full distance?

<official answer>
The general guidelines are that the distances should be within 10% of the standard. Participants should however be informed of the exact distances.

<my opinion>
Triathlons are not run on tracks (and rarely in pools) so I think it's more important to have an interesting and safe route than get the distances right within +/- 0.00000..... I know this makes comparisons between races impossible but currents, rain, hills etc do this anyway. The best comparisons in triathlon tend to be between yourself and the people who generally finish around you in races or your results on different years.

Bambaata

I'm with HM on this one.

DrMicrobe

Sprint
Swim-12mins
T1-2mins
Bike-44 mins
T2-2mind
Run-25 mins

1hr 24ish!!

Swim-13mins
T1-2.56mins (Had Issues with my socks!!!):):)
Bike-45mins (Spent at least three minutes on the bike trying to put on gloves (Note to brain, put them on before i get on bike)!!!
T2-56secs
Run-35mins (Had to stop about 3km for a pee)!!!

1Hr 36mins
First ever triathalon so finishing in one piece is a victory!!! Defenitely hooked now-was thinking of doing TriCarrig on Suir-anybody done this one-what type of swim is it (Better be downstream!!!!))

Athy was organised really well but one gripe I have was the lack of a massage after the race-my wave left at 6pm so when I got back they were setting up for the JackL gig so massage people were gone-the promise of getting that massage was what kept me going!! I guess they cant hang around all day for slomos like myself they prob. were there from early that morning!!!

tribesman

wellboss wrote: »

Anybody have any idea why the run wasn't 10km, its so annoying when its a few hundred meters off and times don't count

It might have been that the course was measured for the 5k instead of the 10k.

There was about 300m from the start of the run to the start of the loop right? So, for the 5k the loop needed to be 4.4k (0.3 + 4.4 + 0.3 = 5k)

If the loop was the same for the 10k then you would have had 0.3 + 4.4 + 4.4 + 0.3 = 9.4

Highway_To_Hell

DrMicrobe wrote: »

Sprint
Swim-12mins
T1-2mins
Bike-44 mins
T2-2mind
Run-25 mins

1hr 24ish!!

Swim-13mins
T1-2.56mins (Had Issues with my socks!!!):):)
Bike-45mins (Spent at least three minutes on the bike trying to put on gloves (Note to brain, put them on before i get on bike)!!!
T2-56secs
Run-35mins (Had to stop about 3km for a pee)!!!

1Hr 36mins
First ever triathalon so finishing in one piece is a victory!!! Defenitely hooked now-was thinking of doing TriCarrig on Suir-anybody done this one-what type of swim is it (Better be downstream!!!!))

Athy was organised really well but one gripe I have was the lack of a massage after the race-my wave left at 6pm so when I got back they were setting up for the JackL gig so massage people were gone-the promise of getting that massage was what kept me going!! I guess they cant hang around all day for slomos like myself they prob. were there from early that morning!!!

Don't bother with gloves, for a 20 - 40 km session I would say there is no advantage to wearing gloves. Also getting socks onto wet feet is always hard, so either dont wear them but you need to train with no socks, the other option if you change shoes between bike/run is to wear no socks for the bike section and put on your socks in T2. Not too sure if I will explain this properly but when I use socks (I don't bother for sprint races) have your socks nearly inside out and sitting in your runners, when you get your bike shoes off wipe your feet on your transition mat to get rid of any grit and then put your toes into the socks and roll/pull the socks over your feet, this should avoid the problem of pushing your foot into a sock.

Carrick is downstream followed by nice bike and run routes.

wellboss

tribesman wrote: »

It might have been that the course was measured for the 5k instead of the 10k.

There was about 300m from the start of the run to the start of the loop right? So, for the 5k the loop needed to be 4.4k (0.3 + 4.4 + 0.3 = 5k)

If the loop was the same for the 10k then you would have had 0.3 + 4.4 + 4.4 + 0.3 = 9.4

Valid point, but all they had to do was make us turn left after the ziz zag for 150m up river and 150m back down, do this on both laps and then that's the extra 600 that was missing, Sprint racers wouldn't need to do this as the course was set up for them. It's not the end of the world but would have been nice if they told us

griffin100

Valid point, but all they had to do was make us turn left after the ziz zag for 150m up river and 150m back down, do this on both laps and then that's the extra 600 that was missing, Sprint racers wouldn't need to do this as the course was set up for them. It's not the end of the world but would have been nice if they told us

It's a bit frustrating really, thats the second race in a week (the other one being Kilcock) that I have run and assumed a run pb only then to find out that the run course was short. Come to think of it its the second race in a week where we had to run on shi*e surfaces as well. If I want to run cross country I'll register for a cross country race.

Bambaata

I dont understand why people talk about pb's at these events. every course is different. To me, you can only compare a time on the exact same course. If i want to get a 5km or 10km run pb i'd do it in such an event rather than using a triathlon to gauge it. best bet to record progress is to compare yourself to people you see finishing close to you or consistently higher etc.

Event organisers would be hard pushed to get a course with exact distances to match 40/20km cycle and 10/5km runs. The swim is the only one which i would get annoyed about if it were short.

Stark

griffin100 wrote: »

Come to think of it its the second race in a week where we had to run on shi*e surfaces as well. If I want to run cross country I'll register for a cross country race.

If you wanted to run a road race, you should have entered a road race. The surface was perfectly runnable imo and route back along the canal was much nicer than running on the road.

griffin100

I dont understand why people talk about pb's at these events. every course is different. To me, you can only compare a time on the exact same course. If i want to get a 5km or 10km run pb i'd do it in such an event rather than using a triathlon to gauge it. best bet to record progress is to compare yourself to people you see finishing close to you or consistently higher etc.

I take the point, but the times I posted for the runs in both these races were the best I have ever done for any run of that distance, thats why I was classing them as PB's. I've yet to run a 5km road race and my only 10km one was 6 months ago and was woefully slow so for a few hours I was pleased with my Kilcok and Athy times (actually still am for Athy considering how fecked I was when I got off the bike).

If you wanted to run a road race, you should have entered a road race. The surface was perfectly runnable imo and route back along the canal was much nicer than running on the road.

I don't think anyone can defend the surface we had to run over when we left the road and were heading towards the canal, it was little more than a ploughed field. A dose of heavy rain on Friday or Saturday would have made that section interesting. The pathway along the canal wasn't the worst but I find that type of surface really difficult to run on, maybe its just me and my old ankles. It was worse in Kilcock last week where all the rain made it feel like I was running on a sponge. I know some of the other races I've entered later in the summer have similar runs so hopefully the weather beforehand will be dry.

Poncherello

yeah you wont be setting any PBs at the Beast of the East !!