What mistakes did you make at your first tri?
Jonhinio
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It's just over a week until my first tri at Eton. Not feeling 100% ready yet, but hopefully some fine tuning next week will help.
Was wondering what pitfalls you board members fell into on their first event. Be good to know so I don't do the same.
Cheers,
Jon
Was wondering what pitfalls you board members fell into on their first event. Be good to know so I don't do the same.
Cheers,
Jon
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First ever tri - I decided to learn to start out of T1 with shoes clipped-in the day before the race. Having seemingly perfected in one day, I decided to go with it for the race. Completely forgot that my feet would be soaking wet out transition and both feet promptly slipped completely over the shoes and crashed into another bike! Not a happy guy was he!!!
Second one was at Blenheim, where I didn't take time to look at the course. Bike leg had one ridiculously long hill that disappeared into the woods. Was completely in the wrong gear and dropped them all in a bid just to make it up there. 3 laps later and realised I had done no training for hills, and then proceeded to blow up on the run!!
Learn by doing!
Did this quite well! Got in, the hooter went and I was still hyperventilating and thought i was going to have to pull up just 500M into it. After a few BStrokes, and thankfully got breathing back to normal.
Would recommend getting into the water with plenty of time, keep moving, and put a few practice strokes in.
Best of luck and Enjoy the race Jon
Paul
Listen to the brief and if you have any doubts then ask - theres no such thing as a stupid question....well, apart from "why do you wax your legs"[:D]
my first tri involved blisters!- i would save time, and not bother with socks.......not good-[:(] always have put on your socks (pre-filled with talc),i ended up with massive blisters during the run-slowing me down immensly (well thats my excuse!), seriously, i always put them on now,when i come out the pool![;)]
Not my first but last tri (in which I surprisingly came 3rd in my age group!) took wrong turn on cycle cos I didn't listen to the last minute brief about a minor change on the route.
But just have a blast, you will enjoy it, try to learn from the mistakes of others before your own. And remember:
A mistake is evidence that someone has actually tried to do something - therefore a person who has never made a mistake ...
Started feeling thirsty as soon as I got on the bike and ran out of water by half way through the ride.
Putting a cycling shirt over my tri suit before the ride in case I got cold. I didn't need it and it took ages to get on.
Not smiling at the official photographer as I ran past him. I am on the internet for all eternity looking like death warmed up.
But I did - and it still makes me smile thinking about that race.
The main moral of this story is time spent in planning is rarely wasted. Get kit that fits, do some training for all three disciplines and get some practise at running off of the bike and you will be fine, oh and I still recommend carbing up on the stella the night before.
Now I guess I have another thing to faf about with in transition! Any advice anyone?
Speed off, blow up, recover...limp home.