did my 1st triathlon today🙂 the details are: 400m swim 10km ride 4km run
i think my overall time was about 60mins. pretty [censored] compared with some aus post guy who finished in 39 mins but i was just glad i didnt need to be dragged into a life boat🙂 the running paths were a bit narrow when you needed to overtake or were being passed.. also each time i saw a red light on beach rd i had to tell myself to not slow down, and there's no need to stop🙂
some training details: i ride to work 2 or 3 days a week (13km ride, surrey hills to clayton) do a long ride on the weekend usually 60-100kms. since late december ive been running 2 or 3 times a week usually 2.5 to 3.5kms at a time and ive been swimming 2 or 3 times a week. When i 1st started training for this in december, i couldnt swim 25m without stopping, could run approx 800m before needing to walk and weighed about 94kgs (now 87kgs). so the training has really done me some good🙂 i dunno if i'll bother with ever doing the serious events in the future but these semi-serious / fun events will be good to keep the training motivation up..
now onto those mid june audax rides..they seem more appealing than jumping into the bay at 9:30am without a wetty..
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and you dont get confronted by scary images like innapropriate use of
speedos :-)
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(and insane people who cant understand you must have the
latest/greatest/lightest/carbon-
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est fandangly bike known to man to ride! geesh...)
i was happy knowing that i finished the bike ride and was only passed by 2 or 3 other riders who all had fancy carbon type tri bikes with disc / tri spoke wheels of some description.
as for innapropriate use of speedos, is there ever an appropriate use?🙂 (as far as men wearing them) as my wife and i were walking towards the transition area for me to start, some hairy dude in speedos was telling his mate "one thing i forgot this morning, was to shave around my crotch, cos dude, that was like murder on the bike" (yes he was american) i guess he got a free brazillian yesterday morning🙂
i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride since around the bay
Originally posted by Dejonica " i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride since around the bay
which one? i like em but they are always big commitment as they are in far-flung places and as we are a 1 car family (more cycling expenditure :-P), getting there incurs the wrath of 'she whom must be obeyed'
done the Fernshaw?Lake Mtn one (ouch!) and alpine classsic twice now and a couple of others too. longer/slower, mmmmmmm
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and you dont get confronted by scary images like innapropriate use of speedos :-)
(and insane people who cant understand you must have the latest/greatest/lightest/carbon- est fandangly bike known to man to ride! geesh...)
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Speedos are used for measuring speed on a bike, they really shouldn't be used to sit on the saddle...
I think you might have the triathlon crowd mixed up with the Sunday morning club ride crowd (regarding no-expense-spared equipment vs actual usefulness).
Pooh. Another them and us exercise. FWIW, I ride with "cyclists" (whatever that means) and race triathlon - all without the benefit of carbon fibre or disc wheels. Then again, I'm not quite at the elite level in either.
"I think you might have the triathlon crowd mixed up with the Sunday morning club ride crowd (regarding no-expense-spared equipment vs actual usefulness)."
Actually i was referring to audaxers who just ride whatever for reliability and comfort (the fools, dont they know they could save 1.5 grams if they bought Ti blah, blah, blah)
"FWIW, I ride with "cyclists" (whatever that means) and race triathlon.
Hope you aint one of dem that finds riding in a straight line very tricky :-P Tri-ers are very scary to ride anywhere near, me finds All those anti-drafting rules isnt necessarily a good thing...
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Dejonica said:
" i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride
since
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around the bay
which one? i like em but they are always big commitment as they are in far-flung places and as we are a 1 car family (more cycling expenditure :-P), getting there incurs the wrath of 'she whom must be :obeyed'
done the Fernshaw?Lake Mtn one (ouch!) and alpine classsic twice now and a couple of others too. longer/slower, mmmmmmm
these are the two i'm looking at. not sure if i'll just do one or both Seaford Loops 200 Saturday 5 June 2004 - Seaford, VIC 200km - Road - Supported - Full Moon See the sea in one or two scenic 100km loops around the Mornington Peninsula. Two bays from Town Saturday 26 June 2004 - Albert Park Lake, VIC 200km - Road - Unsupported - First Quarter Moon
First a flat, fast frolic to Frankston, a circuit of the Peninsula, attack the altitude of Arthurs Seat, then back to town.
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Hope you aint one of dem that finds riding in a straight line very tricky :-P Tri-ers are very scary to ride anywhere near, me finds All those anti-drafting rules isnt necessarily a good thing...
'fraid not... I'm equally mediocre riding on the aerobars as I am in a group (though not on the aerobars _in_ a group - that is a sure way to visit casualty)
