So I'm gonna try a triathlon this year!!!

Irish Al

Riverrunner wrote:

Good luck Al. Triathlons are addicting. My husband and I have been doing them for the past two years -can't swim worth a damn. We keep saying we are going to take lessons, but haven't got around to it. I absolutely hate swimming laps in the pool! Yuck!

Cheers RR...appreciate the encouragement

Heineken Helen wrote:

:well that was the idea... am I THAT transparent? :eek:

Yep

redrock wrote:

See Al... with all this training, etc. you will end up with body no. 1! And we will all vote for you! Good luck with all of this.. gonna be hard work!

But you've already voted for me

redrock

Irish Al wrote:

But you've already voted for me

:mad:

Irish Al

redrock wrote:

:mad:

GreenTeaDisease

Irish Al wrote:

Yep, was looking for a new target to kick up the old fitness regime this year so I'm managed to talk a couple of mates into doing a triathlon...one problem...I can't bloody swim properly :eek: time for some lessons :rolleyes:

I did a tri last year, and let me tell you, you do not need to know how to swim "properly." What you need to know how to do is how to swim while simultaneously beating off the 100 other swimmers that are swimming into and over you. If it's open water, you need to breath "incorrectly" anyway and look straight ahead so you can stay going straight.

PJaddicted

What a great way for you to get in shape! Have fun with it!

My good friend did an Iron Man for his 40th birthday....and he did it in a good time too! That is what you can work up to

oxc

Steve Dunne

al...remember...guinness for strength!!!!!!!!! good luck!!!

Irish Al

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I did a tri last year, and let me tell you, you do not need to know how to swim "properly." What you need to know how to do is how to swim while simultaneously beating off the 100 other swimmers that are swimming into and over you. If it's open water, you need to breath "incorrectly" anyway and look straight ahead so you can stay going straight.

I have my baton in hand for such times

PJaddicted wrote:

What a great way for you to get in shape! Have fun with it!

My good friend did an Iron Man for his 40th birthday....and he did it in a good time too! That is what you can work up to

oxc

Maybe next year

Steve Dunne wrote:

al...remember...guinness for strength!!!!!!!!! good luck!!!

Thats the best advise yet..cheers dude

Starting my swimming lessons this weekend

Jennytree

Best of luck Alfredo Where do ye do triathlons this weather anywho?!!

keelycan

Good luck Irish Al
I've benn running marathons the last 2 years and I've told myself that a triathlon is next unfortunately I have the same problem as u my swimming technic is horrible good luck to you let us know how it goes.

Irish Al

Jennytree wrote:

Best of luck Alfredo Where do ye do triathlons this weather anywho?!!

Hey Jenilicious, Headin down to athlone for the...wait for it....TRI-Athlone Pure Class

keelycan wrote:

Good luck Irish Al
I've benn running marathons the last 2 years and I've told myself that a triathlon is next unfortunately I have the same problem as u my swimming technic is horrible good luck to you let us know how it goes.

Cheers Keely, did a marathon a couple of years ago, wouldn't mind doing another but its just far to much training, more than I'm willing to commit to at the moment I let you know how it goes

Steve Dunne

there's a guy in my office who's in his 50s and has done 4-5 triatholons. Amazing accomplishments.

Irish Al

Steve Dunne wrote:

there's a guy in my office who's in his 50s and has done 4-5 triatholons. Amazing accomplishments.

Yeah its fairly amazing.....when I think too long about it, I get nervous!

Steve Dunne

Irish Al wrote:

Yeah its fairly amazing.....when I think too long about it, I get nervous!

where do you live/train???

ajedigecko

Irish Al wrote:

Yeah its fairly amazing.....when I think too long about it, I get nervous!

being nervous will keep you from injury....it is a natural defense and keeps the mind sharp.

did you get the black shorts yet?

Irish Al

Steve Dunne wrote:

where do you live/train???

I live just outside Dublin....train on the roads around the town and practise me swimming in the bath

Seriously tho, I've been doing a good bit of running over the past few years and have until july to get the swimming sorted, so gonna just focus on that for now, starting lessons on sat

Irish Al

ajedigecko wrote:

being nervous will keep you from injury....it is a natural defense and keeps the mind sharp.

did you get the black shorts yet?

Not yet, they're on order, so just have to put up with me tighty-whities for the mo

Riverrunner

GreenTeaDisease wrote:

I did a tri last year, and let me tell you, you do not need to know how to swim "properly." What you need to know how to do is how to swim while simultaneously beating off the 100 other swimmers that are swimming into and over you. If it's open water, you need to breath "incorrectly" anyway and look straight ahead so you can stay going straight.

I swam three times this week in the pool at the gym and did pretty good. Nobody swam over me, grabbed my feet, hit me in the head, and I swam straight as an arrow (black line at the bottom of the pool). Ha! Now put me in open water with hundreds of better swimmers and you could put me on funniest home videos. After the 1/2 mile open water swim in one of my first triathlons, an official told me that I should get a prize for swimming farther than anyone else - I went this way and then that way and then back again and then a wide turn then zig zag some more........ I was embarrassed, but then thought YEAH I SHOULD GET A PRIZE for that!!!

ajedigecko

Irish Al wrote:

Not yet, they're on order, so just have to put up with me tighty-whities for the mo

you are wise beyond your years.

Steve Dunne

Irish Al wrote:

I live just outside Dublin....train on the roads around the town and practise me swimming in the bath

Seriously tho, I've been doing a good bit of running over the past few years and have until july to get the swimming sorted, so gonna just focus on that for now, starting lessons on sat

How 'bout the good ole Liffey!!!??? Swimming in toxic Guinness for practice ought to make the actual triatholon easy!!!!!!!!!!! And them hills down in Wickford should make for some good training!

Jennytree

Irish Al wrote:

Hey Jenilicious, Headin down to athlone for the...wait for it....TRI-Athlone Pure Class

boooooo... get off the staaage! Athlone should be good for the moral support, its such a kip you'll be dyin to get the fuck outta there! swimswimswim!