TriTalk on Tour 2023

Events
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I hear ya.
I always thought “it’s only a half”

But five hours of actually trying to race is a lot different to just being able to do it at an easy pace.

Like - on paper, it’s not hard, is it?

2km swim is my normal morning swim set.
90km ride is my Sunday club run.
The 21km run has actually felt quite short and enjoyable at my last two events :face_with_peeking_eye:
And I’ve barely ran :rofl:

But then you get to race day and it’s oh so different.

Yet, even knowing that, I still feel confident that I could go do an 11 hour iron distance race tomorrow (so long as it was flat) when I know deep down that I’d hate the bike after 140km and end up walking about 16km of the marathon :see_no_evil::x:

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22

As I thought it might be - it’s all military related sports licences.

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23

Thanks for that, sorry to interrupt your work :grin:.

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24

Need a triple. Saturday morning a Sprint, Saturday afternoon an Standard then Sunday morning a middle. Sunday night BBQ and beers

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25

Troyes in the Champagne region of france used to do that. Will have to look it up again.

Did I mention Champagne :eyes:

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26

Im in. Dont care what the race is. In in in

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27

For UTMB I used that online service which was about £60, certificate was accepted by UTMB.

Although I did think they accepted BTA, that’s all I used for Nice 70.3 in 2019

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28

Helvellyn is a cracking little race and if my heel was still giving me jip then it’s just a fun hillwalk for me at the end lol - pretty close too relatively

Aberfeldy half distance in August - great race, nice Loch swim - loch Tay, beautiful rolling bike course, run round grounds of some country house. Doubt anyone could be enticed north of the wall though :grin:

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Confirmed that FFTri don’t mind brit licences.

FFA (athletics federation) appear to have gone a bit funny - they’ve cancelled all parkruns because they want everyone to have a licence or medical certificates and they’re not accepting UKA licences.

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30

Pull your finger out.

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31

Blerghhhh I’m still scarred from that run. That was probably the first time I’ve felt helplessly empty or wanting to quit.

…

But yeah I’d do it again :joy::smiling_imp::muscle:

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32

Even I say that’s a huge over-swim :joy:
good debates before on the isoman concept, but ultimately I came to agree with @Jorgan that equal time at all 3 probably favours the swimmers a bit too much in practice.

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33

Is Hellvelyn still going?

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Yes, still got entries this year but I think there’s at least 350 entered so far so enough for it to go ahead.

The swim is too cold for me though :cold_face:

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35

As mentioned in the other thread, I’m
Up for the June version113 I think

Anyone joining @funkster and me at IM Frankfurt?

36

That looks like a nice little race, just off the tunnel, should be fast but the full could get a bit boring.

Might be windy though?

37

Bollox - if all take equal time, then that’s just saying that a lot of people are crap (relatively) at swimming.

If I could still run, I’d be off to Alpe d’Huez or Celtman I think … Helvellyn also always close to my heart

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38

Too true

39

In full isoman distances A 50 minute ironman swimmer would have a one hour advantage over a 65 minute ironman swimmer. (Plus realistically that 65 minute swimmer is going to likely drop off more if need to swim for 3.5hrs and then bike and run after, but even ignoring that… )

If the FOP swimmer can hold 30kph on the bike, the MOP swimmer needs to hold around 43kph to catch them by T2.

That to me seems a bigger difference in bike standards, unless I’m approaching it wrong.

I agree people are relatively weaker swimmers and tri is full of bike/runners, but it’s also far easier for any swimmer to tootle round at medium to low speed on a bike.

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40

Yes, this is the problem with ISO-time the delta between sports contributes to different minutes gained / lost due to the way event speed scales with power, it’s not the same.