Fingal Sprint Tri - 27th May

BTH

Hi All,

3d Triathlon Club is delighted to announce that the Fingal Sprint Triathlon is now open for entries. This year the event takes place on Sunday 27th May, in the National Aquatic Centre Dublin 15.

As always the Fingal sprint is a great start to the season for experienced triathletes and the prefect 1st race for newbies.

Details are available at: http://fingalsprint.3dtri.com/

Entry is through: https://www.triathlonireland-newserver.com/local-races.html

Check out Facebook for race updates and a competition with 2 race places up for grabs. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fingal-Sprint-Triathlon-and-Junior-Aquathlon/253251974750198

We’ll also be running the Fingal Junior Sprint on the day for any mini triathletes in the family http://fingaljuniorsprint.3dtri.com/

Looking forward to seeing you on the 27th.

3D Triathlon Club.



Last years thread is here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=72009005

Amz

Hoping to make this my first race.

elvis jones

Should be my 1st of the season.

mrboswell

Was going to do it as my first ever triathlon but it clashes with the Heineken cup final (wishful thinking by a Leinster fan!)

BTH

mrboswell wrote: »

Was going to do it as my first ever triathlon but it clashes with the Heineken cup final (wishful thinking by a Leinster fan!)

Heineken Cup Final 19th May

Fingal Sprint Tri 27th May

I see no problems here

Amz

BetterThanHoyte wrote: »

mrboswell wrote: »

Was going to do it as my first ever triathlon but it clashes with the Heineken cup final (wishful thinking by a Leinster fan!)

Heineken Cup Final 19th May

Fingal Sprint Tri 27th May

I see no problems here

You gave me a fright there!

mrboswell

Sorry lads - my bad - looks like I can do it after all

El Director

Not doing it myself but hope to be there with 5/6 students from school that I am introducing to the world of multisport, its great that there is a junior aquathon, although you have to be under 16 and two of the students are 16 so they will be doing the sprint. Hopefully it will be enjoyable for them and they'd like to do it again. They are all part of swim clubs and well able to run, representing the school in XC as well so not a bother to them.

couerdelion

Looking forward to this now and the challenge of trying to beat last years time.

A couple of club members tried to enter this week but it's now full. Did that happen last year?

BTH

couerdelion wrote: »

Looking forward to this now and the challenge of trying to beat last years time.

A couple of club members tried to enter this week but it's now full. Did that happen last year?

Not sure if it filled out last year. Initial uptake this year was very slow so the decision was made to cut a wave. Last year we added a wave due to demand, but have now gone back to the previous years size. Still, over 350 places in the adult race alone sold so its not going to be a small race!!

JohnM77

My wife missed the entry cut off for this race so if anyone knows of an entry going she would gladly take it off their hands.

PM me and I can provide contact details.

Thanks

bombidal

Seems to be a lot of traffic works on cycle route. Will these be done?, the diversion in place has roads that are in absolutely woeful condition

couerdelion

bombidal wrote: »

Seems to be a lot of traffic works on cycle route. Will these be done?, the diversion in place has roads that are in absolutely woeful condition

Just had to reroute our club TT tonight because of it. Thanks for the heads up.

NinjaStudent

Looking forward to this tri, anyone know if the roads have improved for the cycle?

couerdelion

NinjaStudent wrote: »

Looking forward to this tri, anyone know if the roads have improved for the cycle?

AFAIK the road has reopened between Dolly Hefernans and Hollystown. However, up Nr the turnaround point has been resurfaced and is more or less gravel at the moment.

NinjaStudent

Thanks for the info couerdelion, took a quick drive up that way today, the last 500ms of the cycle is farily gravelly alright, nothing to serious tho.

Nice flat cycle all the same!

redved

Quick question about the swim, does anyone know how much time the longer course would cost you over 750m.

My best time over 750m with a 25m pool is 14:30 or so. I think I may have been a bit ambitous with my swim time as I gave the same time for a 50m pool

El Director

Jura are off! Go team El D!!

couerdelion

Well organised event yet again from 3D. Loads of marshalls too giving great encouragement.

Just waiting for results now.

Oh and I got the turnaround wrong, no gravel.

littlemsfickle

+1

My third year doing this race now, well organised and marshalled and FANTASTIC day for it. Cheers 3D tri!

bombidal

Great tri as usual, any sign of results?... Fella finishing 1st wave in pool was memorable, great respect for people who are willing to give it a go

glennbhoy

Great day, Excellent marshalling by 3D and hot weather
Fair play to Pixel pros for all the photos
Just missing the results

RacoonQueen

Results - http://www.triathlonireland.com/index.php?id=107&nid=782

littlemsfickle

RacoonQueen wrote: »

Results - http://www.triathlonireland.com/index.php?id=107&nid=782

I think the times are a bit out though - looks like about 2 mins fast for the swim

peter kern

yes swim times are odd look some 75 - 2 min out depending on the level of swimmer

well done for the female win .

couerdelion

littlemsfickle wrote: »

I think the times are a bit out though - looks like about 2 mins fast for the swim

peter kern wrote: »

yes swim times are odd look some 75 - 2 min out depending on the level of swimmer

well done for the female win .

Yep, I thought the swim times looked a little fast. I've no idea where the transponder was for the end of the swim but I reckon mine is out by 1 min or so.

NinjaStudent

Great start to the season, and a well organised race!

I was absolutely boiling by the end of the run!

redved

agreed on the heat on the run, thought I'd never get to the turnaround point

Must say I was very impressed with the volunteers on the bike course, every junction was well marshalled and I appreciated the encouragement

Swim was a struggle, found the distance notably harder in the 50m pool.

I refuse to believe the swim times are a minute short

Overall great event and superbly organised

couerdelion

I think most people agree that the swim times were generous and I received an email overnight to confirm that the swim times are indeed too short due to an initial clock synchronisation mix-up and they are all 3m 16s out.

This would mean that the fastest time is 11:23 from start to transition? Bjorns split isn't shown but I'm told he was well in front of Con. So 90s+ slower than last year for Bjorn Ludick and 80s for Con Docherty in the same pool and same transition? I also had someone timing me and it would mean I took around 3 mins to get to transition. Same with another lad in wave 2. Sorry but that is crap.

Really peeved at the moment. Accurate timing is one of the most important aspects of an event and this just looks like it's now been made up. When I'm deciding if I want to enter next year I won't be thinking of how good I thought the run and bike marshalling was I'll be wondering if the timing will be got right and what's the point of entering again if I've nothing to compare year on year times to.

redved

agreed on the above, its disappointing when stuff like this happens. hard to see where the 3 mins plus came from.

@Courdelion you said you had timed yourself separately, how do the times compare?

couerdelion

redved wrote: »

agreed on the above, its disappointing when stuff like this happens. hard to see where the 3 mins plus came from.

@Courdelion you said you had timed yourself separately, how do the times compare?

Brother in laws dad said I climbed out of the pool around 13:20. Initial results had me at T1 in 12:56 which I knew was wrong and said earlier in this thread that I reckoned to be about a minute out. New results have me at 16:12.