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Celine Tall Molding wrote: »+1 to this. Also to add i know you have ideas of going longer 5/10k swim events, perhaps the swim sadist might offer up another opinion but i could imagine you would want to do less kicking over a longer distance to conserve energy?
It is physically impossible for Kurt to do less kicking.
That is all.
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interested wrote: »It is physically impossible for Kurt to do less kicking.
That is all.
I probably shouldn't have laughed as long as I did:D
Wed 60mins easy turbo
Legs, body, feels good now, any back pain has passed. Work is very busy, I'm looking forward to packing the car and leaving it all behind for a couple of days. Valentia should be a blast.
The goal at the start of the year was to base train to Valentia, expecting injuries to reoccur. Thankfully that hasn't happened, so I'm quietly confident those days are behind me. Entered the Dublin City Oly Tri on 25th August, that will be my main goal training-wise throughout the summer.0 -
Kurt Godel wrote: »Entered the Dublin City Oly Tri on 25th August, that will be my main goal training-wise throughout the summer.
Snap! Same goal here
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Sat Valentia Triathlon Duathlon
Woke up early, straight away checked the weather. Sun, awesome. I looked out at the sea having breakfast, a bit of a breeze, but nothing you'd even call choppy, great. Got all my gear together and biked down to set up, 1.5k from where I was staying. Everything looked good, a nice buzz about the place, preparation for this couldn't have been better, I'm psyched. Enter registration, a bit of friendly banter with the bike check official, followed by "and you know the swim has been cancelled, right?". I didn't know what to say, he confirmed it was because of the wind, and I walked in a daze to rack my bike. No point arguing the toss with a volunteer. I racked, looked out at the sea (no breakers), and the penny dropped that I had travelled all this way just for a duathlon. Feck that, I took my bike and gear and exited, asked the marshall who I should give my timing chip to, he said someone in the hotel, so I went in there. Mayhem, very crowded, and although I didn't want to support the duathlon because I didn't support the decision, it wasn't worth a drama hissy fit hunting down which overworked volunteer I should give my chip to. Back to set-up, its not Valentia Tri's fault, they've put on a great show, cop yourself on lad. I spoke with interested about the cancelled swim, he had a much better attitude than I, stay positive, do your best, take any transition tips and use it as a learning experience. Hard to argue against that.
1st Run 3k
They asked for five waves, first 100 would be triathletes who have Sprinted under 1:09. I've no idea what my time is (because the only Sprint I entered the swim was truncated by TI safety officials... can you tell how I feel about this issue;)), so decide to go in the second wave. Bang, we're off, a lot of have-a-go's in this wave, I start passing them after a km. I'm jogging, but don't really care, so cop myself on, and make the guy in front a target. Then the next, etc. This seems to pick me up a bit, I'm passing people until the end.
T1
Remember, use it as a learning experience, so run in, note landmarks where my bike is, locate it, hat on, grab and run with bike until mount line... *Perfect*
Bike 20k
...hop on, rotate to break elastics, get feet in, why wont feet get in, oh its because I still have my running shoes on...:rolleyes: I dismount, and think about what to do. That DNF looks tempting, I start walking back. Then the aginbite of inwit kicks in, so I slip off the shoes, tell a lad I'll be back for them in 40 minutes, and hop on. Up the hill, its all about overtaking the guy in front, all the way to the top. Now on the back side of the island, its very breezy, enough in places to know you off the bike. I've never experienced such loss of control, and if we're into the realm of which leg should be scrapped because its too dangerous... sorry, sorry, couldn't help myself. Anyway I had a decent bike leg once I got started, passed a load but was only passed by at most 5. Feet out with 500m to go, high cadence for the legs, into trans.
T2
Quick rack, run to exit in socks, no hassle
2nd Run 5k
Locate my shoes, get 'em on, up the hill. Its a bit of a slog, but I'm catching people. Once it gets really steep a guy from Pirahna Tri comes alongside, starts chatting. We shoot the breeze for a few minutes (both annoyed about the swim), before he ups the game and takes off. I follow, and continue taking places. I see interested who has passes the turnaround and is on the down section. I figure he'll have started in wave 1, so I've a minute to play with. This makes me run a bit harder, so I'm up to the cones, around and head down.
There's a heap of runners on my tail, so if I better move or I'll lose a heap of places. I open up, and start tracking down guys ahead. When running downhill, you need to take runners at speed, or they'll latch onto you, so thats what I do. I get complacent. There's a lad ahead, 2k to go, no shame in holding positions... have to admit, if it wasn't for the bit of banter and slagging afterwards, I'd had let it be, but interested was ahead and I knew he'd be putting down the foot. So off I go, probably running for the first time that day. Got one guy, got another, hear a guy behind me, he's fast, he passes me, but he makes me takes two or three. The line is down there 300m to go, will I try and catch the lad ahead? Feck, go for it, I'm sprinting all the way, and just take him before the line. Happy to be finished, but... meh.
Aftermath
I've targeted and been looking forward to this race for about 6 months, After hearing about the swim cancellation, I just couldn't get into it, could not be arsed. I talk to interested after who is dashing off to Dingle (but has taken something from his first Duathlon), bike home, have a quick bowl of soup, and hit the water. Its cold, but that goes after 2 minutes, and in fact feels positively balmy after. I swim out to our bouy looking for muscles, but seaweed has talken over. Swim with the current hard, this feels good, what I came here to do. After 15 minutes, I turn. Its harder, against the wind, but thats just the conditions that are faced. Its a lovely feeling to swim hard into the waves, with sunlight hitting all your bubbles. Back to the house, I feel a new man. No point hanging around, because I know how I really feel about the day. The TI call on the swim was wrong, and is to the detriment of the sport. I'm never doing a sprint again, the risk of over-protection is too great. I actually feel like getting destructive about it, either getting violent or creative. But I can't be apathetic towards it. I trained long and hard for this race, put in a large amount of travel, cost, family brownie points; to do it, only for the swim to be cancelled in case some of the bikers got wind chill in their wet trisuits. Wrapping athletes in cotton wool does not produce Ironmen.
Photos below taken about 30 mins after I finished, about 1km along the shore from the event, where I swam for 30 mins. Just in case anyone thinks there was crashing waves or gale force winds (click images for bigger)
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Kurt Godel wrote: »
Thankfully I woke up this morning and realised my attitude was crap, sh!t happens, you need to make the best of it, and roll with the punches. I should have raced harder on Saturday instead of sulking around the course. Best foot forward from now on:)
SNAP!
Peace and love, Kurt.0
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