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Getting to know.................Catweazle
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21-11-2013 10:05am#1
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We'll keep it Whest for next week
Kicking it off with
How many tri-suits do you have? How many of them currently fit?
How many times did you get lost on holidays last year?
Are you really going to do Humbert this year?
Good nothing too technical for me so far let's keep it that way
I have three suits, a medium Aldi one for the rare brick run in training, a 2 piece k- Swiss bought in TK maxx in large buts it's smaller than the Aldi one and a club trisuit in large. The only one that fits at this stage is the club suit however I haven't joined the club last year as I can never make training so I can't wear it
I got lost twice last year, out of three cycles that's not great I suppose, writing the towns down after a bottle of wine the night before isn't great planning
The Humbert is unlikely it's been moved back to late July, we are lucky to have a rich and generous uncle who gives us his place in the Algarve for a few weeks each year. he's a wine distributor and with the Galway races being his busiest week we usually go late July to not get in his way. It's a pity as it's my favourite race!0 -
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Do you really think you will do an IM in 2015?
Have you the appetite for the long bikes that will be required?
Will you get the permission for them?
What are your plans for the 2014 season?
Who will be your main nemesis for 2014?
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amphkingwest wrote: »What do you think your chances are of beating your club / boards smack talking nemisis over duathlon or triathlon races in 2014?
Will you go to Kinvara again for the half?
How is your running going at the moment?
My best chance is a triathlon obviously, probably a sprint. I would need two minutes lead out of the water, 20k would give you less chance to drill it in the cycle and an auld man like yourself wouldn't even have the bones warmed up after 5k. For sworn enemies it doesn't take us much to build a rivalry - have we only ever raced once
If you are paying again I would be honoured to pace you to a sub 1.35 in Kinvara this time
Terrible - the plantar is still at me 6 months later, it's only a very slight niggle and doesn't affect me but with me only running approx 25k a week I worry what it will be like when I try and step it up0 -
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Hi cw!
What's the most expensive item you've ever ordered without your wife's knowledge?
Wine - red or white?
Music - loud or soft?
Dance - slow or fast?
Most embarrassing moment ever?
What do you hate the most about cycling with pgibbo??
Any pre-race rituals or superstitions?
Give me your best hope for a race blow by blow when you and I go head to head and long in 2015?
<pouts at possibility of cw not going long in 2015> 0 -
Do you really think you will do an IM in 2015?
Have you the appetite for the long bikes that will be required?
Will you get the permission for them? :Dt year
What are your plans for the 2014 season?
Who will be your main nemesis for 2014?
Pedal on Sunday?
I don't know to be honest - I hope to! I am the youngest of 5 kids and the joint family 40th cash presents before me have been pretty decent. Mrs C will be tapped up early summer next year and that is when I need to address it. If I am going well it will be an ironman, running well it might be a boston marathon attempt if I get the qualifying time or going terrible probably a slot in the lads 2015 ski holiday
The big imponderable - the bike has always been useless for me, I would hope the pressure of a future 180k might get me addressing it and finally put the work in
I am lucky, the wife has seen me as a fat, lazy, hungover smoker in our earlier days, she is more than happy to see me going out training, as long as she gets her 90 minute daily walk in which comes first she will usually be happy to work an hour or two in for me. She is not as big a fan of the 3 hour weekend cycle but as you well know that only happens once a year 3 weeks before the Humbert challenge
The plan is a late start at this stage, Anna our youngest was in special care for 8 weeks so the feeding every three hours is ingrained into her. Even with bottle top ups she will still wake up for a small nuzzle so plenty of tiredness in the house. I don't think an early season A race suits me anyways both years I did it I failed miserably to hold that form through the summer. So all going well, Kilkee and a rare outing after July to perhaps have a go at kenmare late august, it's the weekend of the 40th so hopefully avoids any potential party for me
I don't race enough anymore to have one and any I had have either left the sport or are too good for me now
Pedal on Sunday - lol yes but only if you can leave it a later than you normally go out at, part of my deal is that I will need to give her a break at weekends before I can get out0 -
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amphkingwest wrote: »Be happy to have you as a guest on the 1:30 pacing team....
if you're able for it, that is
(Talk to me privately about that PF issue, I'll get the juju man to sort you)
Cheers I suppose it is high time I stopped ignoring the problem, 1:30 pacer I think not, however i will wager I could do a better pacing job than that greyhound you put in on the 1:42 pace groupI was going to ask what you're doing to address this? Lower mileage isn't working so are you proactively trying to resolve it?
Not much, the odd rub of a ball and a stretch or two when I think of it but no coordinated plan of attack0 -
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Hi cw!
What's the most expensive item you've ever ordered without your wife's knowledge?
Wine - red or white?
Music - loud or soft?
Dance - slow or fast?
Most embarrassing moment ever?
What do you hate the most about cycling with pgibbo??
Any pre-race rituals or superstitions?
Give me your best hope for a race blow by blow when you and I go head to head and long in 2015?<pouts at possibility of cw not going long in 2015>
I suppose the SRAM s80 wheels for the pussy wagon, I warned the bike shop before going in with her to not mention that cheaper stock wheels were an option to reduce the price and to plough on through with the original cost. It added an extra 500 to the price but at least the bike looks the business with them
I never got into white wine but I do love a bottle of red
I am desperate with music, very little interest. I will listen to Some rock music in the car or when doing DIY and i have loads of dance music for the training sessions but that's about it
Dance - fast I suppose judging by how useless I was for the wedding song, slow sets were for the shift in the disco dory back in my youth
I crashed into the house and wrote off the car after a few toots when I was a teenager, I thought it would be great fun to see if I could freewheel all the way home down the hill, alas it was a banger and I didn't realise the engine had spluttered out coming into the driveway, so no brakes and straight into the wall at 8pm in the evening. All the family come out and I have to make up that my foot slipped off the brake and onto the accelerator
The words 30 minutes steady send a shiver down me, cue 30 minutes of trying to hang onto his wheel, lose it and you are gone, although I enjoyed when the missus flagged him down one time while she was walking and asked where I was, he had to come back for me :P
Glad to see that edited, I don't think I would have a chance against you over that distance - you would grind me to pieces with that endurance you have0 -
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