Fingal Tri's Duathlon Series, open for entry.

tinydave · 22-02-2011 9:16am

tunney wrote: »

I thought it was a well marshalled race and I was impressed at the number of volunteers.

On a separate note is there a contact email address for the race organiser? Unrelated to anything discussed on this thread.

i think we had 32/33 volunteers marshaling in the race and 3 of them were not club members so all was good

races@fingaltri.ie and the race director can pick up the mail there

duffyshuffle · 22-02-2011 1:37pm

I enjoyed the race even if my run fitness made the uphill a bit of a struggle, road surface wasn't great in places, but what you gonna do, we live in Ireland, very well marshalled, great to see draft busters out on the course, and at the pointy end of the race, event was very friendly, ran smoothly, nice after race food/drinks, a lot going for it, I would race again. Anything you could do to further split the field, like make the first run 4/5km?

adamski8 · 22-02-2011 6:36pm

tunney wrote: »

If I was to do the next race I would do a few things differently. I would be lighter, I would wear a heavier runner. I would have practised short course transitions and stay on course on the bike. more importantly I'd sit off the back on the bike (legally or illegally - probably illegally) and wait for T2 and then run with fresh legs. One minute for drafting - cheers, I'll take that.

what does this entail and why would it help the run?

kennyb3 · 22-02-2011 9:47pm

tunney wrote: »

I thought it was a well marshalled race and I was impressed at the number of volunteers.

If I was to do the next race I would do a few things differently. I would be lighter, I would wear a heavier runner. I would have practised short course transitions and stay on course on the bike. more importantly I'd sit off the back on the bike (legally or illegally - probably illegally) and wait for T2 and then run with fresh legs. One minute for drafting - cheers, I'll take that.

On a separate note is there a contact email address for the race organiser? Unrelated to anything discussed on this thread.

You left out shaving your legs btw:D

jcunniffe · 22-02-2011 10:20pm

adamski8 wrote: »

what does this entail and why would it help the run?

It means, he'd chill out on the bike and draft off the back of the train with his HR 10-15beats below what it was on Sunday, take his 1 minute drafting penalty and then kick ass on the run.

Which is why 1 minute is never a sufficient penalty in such a case.

J

adamski8 · 22-02-2011 11:03pm

jcunniffe wrote: »

It means, he'd chill out on the bike and draft off the back of the train with his HR 10-15beats below what it was on Sunday, take his 1 minute drafting penalty and then kick ass on the run.

Which is why 1 minute is never a sufficient penalty in such a case.

J

ah i thought it was a way of leaning back on the seat

i take it if people keep drafting surely they can get multiple drafting 1min penalties no?

tunney · 23-02-2011 1:22pm

You'd think. But it seems not

tinydave · 15-03-2011 12:57pm

Hi Lads,
Just a quick note to say that the last race is on this Saturday and its starting at 10am instead of 11am
Hope to see a few of you there!
Drafting is on the main watch list this week, with a shoot to kill policy in full affect*

ok maybe not shoot to kill!!!!!

nomadic · 15-03-2011 1:18pm

Looking forward to it.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi · 15-03-2011 6:02pm

nomadic wrote: »

Looking forward to it.

+1

tunney · 17-03-2011 8:42pm

I hope to see you all on Saturday but I've no idea if I actually managed to enter successfully. Man that RunIreland site is so bad. I don't understand why race organisers use it -are the commissions that much less than something like ActiveEurope?

tinydave · 17-03-2011 8:58pm

tunney wrote: »

I hope to see you all on Saturday but I've no idea if I actually managed to enter successfully. Man that RunIreland site is so bad. I don't understand why race organisers use it -are the commissions that much less than something like ActiveEurope?

Email races@fingaltri.ie and get him to confirm if you have entered and explain what happened.
Hope to see you saturday, I will be the one squeezed into a fingaltri trisuit:-)

RobBaxter · 18-03-2011 1:41am

Can you register on the day? When is the closing date for registration given that you're already a member of triathlonireland??

tinydave · 18-03-2011 9:42am

RobBaxter wrote: »

Can you register on the day? When is the closing date for registration given that you're already a member of triathlonireland??

Howaya rob,
Give races@fingaltri.ie a mail and see if he can do anything for you, entries closed yesterday, I'm sure he can sort something out for you :-)

RobBaxter · 18-03-2011 5:18pm

tinydave wrote: »

Howaya rob,
Give races@fingaltri.ie a mail and see if he can do anything for you, entries closed yesterday, I'm sure he can sort something out for you :-)

Thanks Dave.

RobBaxter · 18-03-2011 5:46pm

Couldn't get an entry. Called the guy running the show. Race has reached it's full capacity!

If anyone wants to sell their entry or can't go please PM me and I will buy your entry from you.

Cheers,
Rob

tunney · 18-03-2011 10:51pm

RobBaxter wrote: »

Couldn't get an entry. Called the guy running the show. Race has reached it's full capacity!

If anyone wants to sell their entry or can't go please PM me and I will buy your entry from you.

Cheers,
Rob

<poopy hat>
No race transfer requests for races that don't allow transfers
</poopy hat>

My entry was sorted by the lads in Fingal - cheers. Now if only they could clear my tummy bug.........

RobBaxter · 19-03-2011 1:02am

tunney wrote: »

<poopy hat>
No race transfer requests for races that don't allow transfers
</poopy hat>

My entry was sorted by the lads in Fingal - cheers. Now if only they could clear my tummy bug.........

alright so Garda leonard

hf4z6sqo7vjngi · 19-03-2011 2:58pm

Enjoyable race, well run and well marshalled. The road surface in parts was bad but hey it's Ireland!! That hill was a real lung buster and coming down the second time was fun. Did not witness any drafting going on, it goes to show changing from a 1 to a 2 min penalty acts as a deterent.

nomadic · 19-03-2011 6:16pm

Great race again. No drafting this time out and great marshalling. The hill was a beast for most people, even Laura Casey had to walk up it.

Interesting to compare bike splits from this one and the last one:rolleyes:.

results
http://chipit.ie/admin/admin/editor.php?action=read&id=202

tunney · 19-03-2011 7:57pm

nomadic wrote: »

Great race again. No drafting this time out and great marshalling. The hill was a beast for most people, even Laura Casey had to walk up it.

Interesting to compare bike splits from this one and the last one:rolleyes:.

results
http://chipit.ie/admin/admin/editor.php?action=read&id=202

Wow fancy that - the "I wasn't drafting brigade" were 1-2 minutes slower........ Strange that.

I had heard that your man Cian was likely to take it out, his first season in the sport I'm told.

nomadic · 19-03-2011 8:08pm

Did your bug not clear up?

tunney wrote: »

Wow fancy that - the "I wasn't drafting brigade" were 1-2 minutes slower........ Strange that.

Yea, must have been a stronger wind or something today.

I had heard that your man Cian was likely to take it out, his first season in the sport I'm told.

He lead it from the start, bit of a savage.

tinydave · 19-03-2011 9:40pm

nomadic wrote: »

Did your bug not clear up?

Yea, must have been a stronger wind or something today.

He lead it from the start, bit of a savage.

Yeah it's his first season in triathlons etc, he came from gaa background ! He is a savage, he was well ahead from the start, he even walked a bit on the hill!!:eek:

PWEI · 19-03-2011 10:52pm

tinydave wrote: »

Yeah it's his first season in triathlons etc, he came from gaa background ! He is a savage, he was well ahead from the start, he even walked a bit on the hill!!:eek:

What age is Cian?

tinydave · 19-03-2011 11:12pm

PWEI wrote: »

What age is Cian?

28:eek:

Fingal Tri's Duathlon Series, open for entry.

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