Stratford Tri
memphis
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Hi All,
Just wanted to know how those who took part in Sundays' Stratford Tri done?
I was a little bit disappointed in the fact that the cycle was so short.
Just wanted to know how those who took part in Sundays' Stratford Tri done?
I was a little bit disappointed in the fact that the cycle was so short.
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transition was utter carnage - there's loads more space they could use
cycle was short but a nice route except for tight roundabout at the end where I got squeezed by a car and came off I knew I should have kept the bell on!
Also on the run route there was a group of about 8 'mature' walkers plus dogs determined to stick to the path causing a blockage - they could have closed the path to walkers for just a few hours surely
The finish was a bit wierd it just suddenly appeared and not many people could get to watch
but on the plus side good parking and changing facilities and all in all worked well for over 1000 people
Personally pretty chuffed with 1.09
The end of the race could be a bit better but I'm not sure if the have any other option there.
I'm looking forward to the South Coast Classic in August!.
I hope the Warwickshire tri is the old cycle route because I'm chasing 1:10min for that.
I need a TT bike, it would make things alot easier!!
Glad to go out in the early stages, and only had 1 incident on the tight bend back into the parking lot when one of the stewards moved the inside cones to allow a large people carrier cut the corner...with me on the inside
the run conditions were probably worse than ever and cross trainers may have been better...
anyway highlight of the day was my newbie mate wearing his helmet the wrong way round for the whole bike leg....
Bike course was ok if somewhat short, managed to miss one of the tight bends and went up a bank but fortunately back down the other side onto the road.
Run was, as previously mentioned, very off road, I prefered the course of 2 years ago which was more on the paths.
Managed to finish 34th, however cold didnt do my cough much good (
I started 74th and finished 66th and also felt the cold a little but couldn't be bothered about wearing anything over my Tri suit.
I think the next event I'm entering is the South Coast Classic....
as for the race I finished quite low down in 540th!!! But if you look at my run time and if I hadn't done at least 2 too many lengths in the pool (my error as I misheard the announcer in transition and thought he said 4 x LOOPS not lengths per section and it didn't dawn on me until halfway through the 2nd section that this didn't make sense and I had read 12 lengths!) and if my as expected bike leg was a lot better then I think I may have squeezed a top 220 postion as run and swim time (if done in correct lengths) was comparable to people in those poistions but the bike was very much below them.
So I have confirmed what I thought, my bike section is crap! so I shall make more effort to improve this. But with Blenheim coming up I'll know more if I have "improved" as a triathlete as I did that one last year with a time of 1hr 45 and in training my run has improved and my open water swimming is faster than last year too.