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Donadea Forest Sports Challenge

  • 21-07-2010 2:43pm
    #1
    mloc123
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    Noticed this on runireland, anyone on here entered? Its a 5.7/21/5.7 draft legal duathlon. Right beside me so I was thinking of heading over to it.


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  • #2
    r0nanf
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    Hey thanks for the heads up, I'm local also - just signed up! Physio said don't run until Saturday and go for a light one, guess this qualifies... ;)


  • #3
    mloc123
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    I'm not sure what the bike situation will be, brief notes that drafting is allowed which should mean draft legal spec bikes but its not a TI event so I'm not sure. Think I'll be on my road bike anyway.


  • #4
    mloc123
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    Mailed the organisers, tri bars/bikes are allowed.


  • #5
    mloc123
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    Nice race this morning, little damp and dirty. Will stick up a report later on.


  • #6
    r0nanf
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    Yeah good race, well organized with friendly marshalls and staff I thought.

    Had to pull up on second run with an ITB problem, but sports masseuse on site was a nice help. Guess I should have listened to the physio...


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  • #7
    911sc
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    mloc123 wrote: »
    draft legal spec bikes

    My understanding is that drafting has nothing to do with type of bikes, but area around the bike.
    What do you mean? TT bikes?


  • #8
    mloc123
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    911sc wrote: »
    My understanding is that drafting has nothing to do with type of bikes, but area around the bike.
    What do you mean? TT bikes?

    http://www.dublintri.com/draft-legal-faq.html see the section on bikes. If it is a draft-legal bikes are usually limited to a road bike with stubby, bridged tri bars.


  • #9
    mloc123
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    Hadn't planned on doing this race until I spotted it during the week, signed up on Thursday night and decided I would see how I felt on Saturday morning.
    Up Saturday morning and it looked like a nice day out so I decided to head over, OH was using the car so I decided to cycle over as a warm up. Nice handy pace to loosen the legs up, it was only 16km anyway. I didn't know what to expect standard wise for this one, I spotted Colin Bulger and another Pulse guy.. turn outs it was Jo Lynch along with Eilis Connery.

    Run 1

    I started a little back in the field and when the race started I went at a comfortable enough pace, 100m in and I found myself in the lead group of 5/6..this was new teritory to me and I decided to tuck in behind the two Pulse guys. We along with a couple of others missed the first left turn and had to double back after a few shouts, worked back up to the front again and kept going. The route was a mix of gravel, track and some muck nad was hilly enough... nothing serious but it was always up or down. As I settled in the leaders slowly moved away. I arrived into T1 in around 13th/14th position I think.

    T1

    Wet mucky runners off, helmet on, sunglasses on... sunglasses off. They had fogged up in the rain and I couldn't see a thing. Out of T1 and onto the bike, made up a place or two here.

    Bike

    The first 500m of the bike was a little patchy, good bit of gravel before hitting the main road so I took no chances. One guy passed me on this section and he was gone, he put in a serious bike split for a solo effort. The first 8/9km was into a decent headwind, passed one guy along here. It was a pretty lonely bike tbh, drafting was allowed but I had nobody to work with. With about 7/8km to go we passed through Donadea village, the section had about 8 speed bumps and I noticed a guy coming up behind me. As I hammered off one of the speed bumps I felt a twinge in my right calf... I quickly eased up and it was fine. The guy behind passed me and I dropped back, drafting wasn't going to make any difference now. I kept him in sight until the end of the bike.

    T2

    Off the bike, racked and tried to pull my wet runners onto wet socks... right calf twinged again.

    Run 2

    Out just behind the guy the passed me on the bike, I passed him after about 300m. I knew there were no more places to be made up, the last 2km on the bike was a straight and I had spotted nobody ahead. I kept him at a steady distance behind, tried to shake him off a couple of times but it wasn't happening. Plodded around and finished up with enough left for a sprint if it was needed... it wasn't.

    Finished up 11th overall which was okay. The calf almost cramping was something to be concerned about but I put it down to dehydration, I had only had a cup of tea 2 hours before the start and drank nothing on the way over or on the bike.


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