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gdh250467
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Go for it. Surely a DNF is better than a DNS, at least it shows you tried. But even a DNF is unlikely, you're guaranteed a PB, and it'll give you something to sim at in London. But I can guarantee that if you do it, London will not be your next, you'll be searching for another one to enter in between.
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Running would be an obvious first move.
Have a look at www.parkrun.com and see if there is one near you!
Good luck though - you will enjoy the tri and do better than you think!
You will always have to start a race,if I have a bad race,I treat it as a learning experience,and from the amount I keep learning I must be at the bottom of the remedial class.
So it would be good to get a couple of races in before London,for experience,but what if thru some intervention you couldn't do these races???Would you not start at London.Course not,you would be there ready to go,anxious through anticipation.Eager to start and show some of the young pretenders how to race.
So do it,every race is an experience,if you are worried about losing it thru empty legs,just relax and don't hammer the bike,build up the momentum through the race,for the last half mile spin the pedals on an easy gear,you will hardly lose any time,and the run will be so much easier.Best of luck.
We all started off exactly wher you are - except perhaps for Conehead who probably leapt out at birth and headed for T1
cheers!
Good luck, and let us know how it went.
Which event is it?
as for the race its one of the Team Outrageous midweek series sprints organised in Larkfield Kent ... I do some open water swimming with MIke there so it seemed like a logical palce to start
I can now call myself a triathlete (albeit a slow one - but hey I've gotta start somewhere)
and if you were wondering ... distances were 550m/16km/5km and my time was 1hr 21.05
frikkin brilliant ... bring on the next one!
1. I had never practiced T1 - the wetsuit is new and I couldn't unstrap the velcro ties, wasted about a minute hopping about trying to stretch it so i could rip it off me ... so T1 was a laboroius and ultimately frustrating process - I don't need to wear cycle gloves and I need to buy myself elastic laces ... I should know all this really but there's no substitute for learning from experience.
2. I'm not comfortable enough on the bike. I need to be out on the road more practising ... spinning just doesn't do it ... I don't push a high enough gear on the flats and I push too low a gear on inclines ... that needs to be remedied ... plus I'm still getting used to the gearing and I often change up or change down at the wrong time, meaning my feet fly off the pedals (i don't have bike shoes) wasting me some time.
apart from that its just continuing the training and getting fitter and faster in each event ... next Tri is the London sprint for now ... but will be hunting for one more to do I reckon before that.