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 2010-03-26 12:10 PM in reply to: #2750850 |
Master  1996     Woodbridge , Virginia |  Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Threadsdanaher - 2010-03-26 12:41 PM dalessit - 2010-03-26 10:23 AM Just looked again, high of 55 and sunny, so maybe it won't be so bad. Either way it will be fun. I like your optimism. Excited to get out there for a nice early season warm-up. Mo, you riding the course tonight? If so, what time? I'm not sure when I'll get out there exactly, but may try to do the 10 miles. FUN it shall be.. shane i want too.. keeping an eye on the rain.. so im tentative now.. |
| 2010-03-26 1:14 PM in reply to: #2750915 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread momo - 2010-03-26 12:10 PM sdanaher - 2010-03-26 12:41 PM FUN it shall be.. shane i want too.. keeping an eye on the rain.. so im tentative now.. dalessit - 2010-03-26 10:23 AM Just looked again, high of 55 and sunny, so maybe it won't be so bad. Either way it will be fun. I like your optimism. Excited to get out there for a nice early season warm-up. Mo, you riding the course tonight? If so, what time? I'm not sure when I'll get out there exactly, but may try to do the 10 miles. I'll bring my bike if it isnt raining when I leave my house. Not sure when I'll get out there, but def by the meeting time. It stays light long enough that we could at least bang out some of it, if not all. Plus all I really want to know tonight is when my swim start is. |
| 2010-03-26 2:01 PM in reply to: #2749006 |
Champion 14571  the alamo city, Texas | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread momo - 2010-03-25 5:29 PM sdanaher - 2010-03-25 1:31 PM black felt s22... as im putting along.. dont laugh as you pass by..dalessit - 2010-03-25 7:01 AM So if you see me with a blue Planet-x with Tri-spoke and wheel cover, say hi. White P2 with reynolds - when you pass me on the bike, remind me to run fast. black/red cannondale with pink bar tape  looks like i'll be too busy drooling over all y'alls bikes |
| 2010-03-26 7:54 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread my bib is 356... stop by and say whats up.. |
| 2010-03-26 9:29 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Veteran 301 Smithfield, VA | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Welcome to Smithfield everyone. I've got bib 410 tomorrow. If you haven't been to this site yet, it's soaked and will be very muddy early on. Hope everyone has a good race. Edited by mandsberry 2010-03-26 9:33 PM |
| 2010-03-27 5:34 AM in reply to: #2751875 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread mandsberry - 2010-03-26 9:29 PM Welcome to Smithfield everyone. I've got bib 410 tomorrow. If you haven't been to this site yet, it's soaked and will be very muddy early on. Hope everyone has a good race. Transition is a MESS. Bib 101 10:28:00 start. |
| 2010-03-27 5:28 PM in reply to: #2752034 |
Champion 9060 Charlottesville, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Good race, lol yeah transition was a mess. My bike is very muddy. Swim was good didn't see too much jamming up in the lanes, and the bike and run courses were pretty wide open. |
| 2010-03-27 5:40 PM in reply to: #2752684 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread dalessit - 2010-03-27 5:28 PM Good race, lol yeah transition was a mess. My bike is very muddy. Swim was good didn't see too much jamming up in the lanes, and the bike and run courses were pretty wide open. Yeah. Transition screwed me. I can't wait to see my splits, I bet I spent close to 5 minutes in transition overall due to bad choices and some mud. Swim was great, I was right after a scheduled break and killed it - perfect swim for me. Bike was pretty good but I was not expecting headwind coming back in (that's unusual out there - normally a tailwind). Run was fine, that's a pretty nice 5k course once you get past the twisties. Unusual for my experience with Setup Event races was the bad volunteers doing some areas. The ones manning the mount/dismount line did NOT enforce it at all, I saw close to 50% of people at one point riding right past dismount 10 feet into T. I THINK I saw meherczeg, but not sure. Definitely saw Momo. |
| 2010-03-27 7:03 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Regular 65 Baltimore, maryland | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread I had a great time at Smithfiled. My first tri was better than expected. Think I will find another one to try  |
| 2010-03-27 8:08 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread |
| 2010-03-28 3:39 PM in reply to: #2752696 |
Champion 14571 the alamo city, Texas | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread sdanaher - 2010-03-27 6:40 PM dalessit - 2010-03-27 5:28 PM Good race, lol yeah transition was a mess. My bike is very muddy. Swim was good didn't see too much jamming up in the lanes, and the bike and run courses were pretty wide open. Yeah. Transition screwed me. I can't wait to see my splits, I bet I spent close to 5 minutes in transition overall due to bad choices and some mud. Swim was great, I was right after a scheduled break and killed it - perfect swim for me. Bike was pretty good but I was not expecting headwind coming back in (that's unusual out there - normally a tailwind). Run was fine, that's a pretty nice 5k course once you get past the twisties. Unusual for my experience with Setup Event races was the bad volunteers doing some areas. The ones manning the mount/dismount line did NOT enforce it at all, I saw close to 50% of people at one point riding right past dismount 10 feet into T. I THINK I saw meherczeg, but not sure. Definitely saw Momo. i was there! olliedawg was cheering and introduced me to momo, dalessit said hi before the race. i also swam after a 2 min break - that was NICE. i felt like i was flying. my transitions were normal for me but the wind on the bike KILLED me. overall i'm feeling good about the race. |
| 2010-03-28 6:09 PM in reply to: #2753709 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread meherczeg - 2010-03-28 3:39 PM sdanaher - 2010-03-27 6:40 PM dalessit - 2010-03-27 5:28 PM Good race, lol yeah transition was a mess. My bike is very muddy. Swim was good didn't see too much jamming up in the lanes, and the bike and run courses were pretty wide open. Yeah. Transition screwed me. I can't wait to see my splits, I bet I spent close to 5 minutes in transition overall due to bad choices and some mud. Swim was great, I was right after a scheduled break and killed it - perfect swim for me. Bike was pretty good but I was not expecting headwind coming back in (that's unusual out there - normally a tailwind). Run was fine, that's a pretty nice 5k course once you get past the twisties. Unusual for my experience with Setup Event races was the bad volunteers doing some areas. The ones manning the mount/dismount line did NOT enforce it at all, I saw close to 50% of people at one point riding right past dismount 10 feet into T. I THINK I saw meherczeg, but not sure. Definitely saw Momo. i was there! olliedawg was cheering and introduced me to momo, dalessit said hi before the race. i also swam after a 2 min break - that was NICE. i felt like i was flying. my transitions were normal for me but the wind on the bike KILLED me. overall i'm feeling good about the race. Word. That wind was a toughy. I didn't spend enough time biking outdoors this winter (duh, wonder why!) so I was just not ready for it. I thought I saw you because you had pink bar tape, but I was getting ready to leave transition to go line up for the swim. |
| 2010-03-28 8:57 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? |
| 2010-03-28 8:59 PM in reply to: #2752788 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Congrats! Lot's more in the VA Tri Series. Hope you'll be there. |
| 2010-03-29 4:29 AM in reply to: #2651355 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread The above was for 21903rick. |
| 2010-03-29 5:44 AM in reply to: #2754177 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Polliwog - 2010-03-28 8:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Don't let that sour you on setupevents.. that was unusual for them. They usually have a pretty good volunteer staff. |
| 2010-03-29 7:26 AM in reply to: #2754177 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Polliwog - 2010-03-28 9:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Are you doing any other races? if so, we will see each other.. nice work on your first tri.. |
| 2010-03-29 7:34 AM in reply to: #2651355 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Definitely! Next in line are Tidewater Sprint in June and Colonial Beach in July. Might do Kinetic Sprint if I can get up to a respectable bike speed for 18 miles. (Saturday was my fourth bike ride ever.) |
| 2010-03-29 7:43 AM in reply to: #2754177 |
Champion 14571 the alamo city, Texas | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Polliwog - 2010-03-28 9:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Did you see the guy - probably a bib around 200 or so - that was just dog paddling and back floating and basically doing EVERYTHING but swim??!! I don't care if you can't swim, but don't seed yourself up with the 1:45/100 group! SHEESH! |
| 2010-03-29 7:45 AM in reply to: #2754559 |
Champion 9060 Charlottesville, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread meherczeg - 2010-03-29 8:43 AM Polliwog - 2010-03-28 9:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Did you see the guy - probably a bib around 200 or so - that was just dog paddling and back floating and basically doing EVERYTHING but swim??!! I don't care if you can't swim, but don't seed yourself up with the 1:45/100 group! SHEESH! My 10 second bump seemed to work well for me, I actually swam slower than planned but still had no one near me. |
| 2010-03-29 9:12 AM in reply to: #2754564 |
Extreme Veteran 604 Carrollton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread dalessit - 2010-03-29 7:45 AM meherczeg - 2010-03-29 8:43 AM Polliwog - 2010-03-28 9:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Did you see the guy - probably a bib around 200 or so - that was just dog paddling and back floating and basically doing EVERYTHING but swim??!! I don't care if you can't swim, but don't seed yourself up with the 1:45/100 group! SHEESH! My 10 second bump seemed to work well for me, I actually swam slower than planned but still had no one near me. The further you get from one of the breaks the worse it is, I think. Last year I had to swim over 6 or 7 people. It was awful, I was about 7 people before the next break, so there was plenty of backlog. |
| 2010-03-29 9:19 AM in reply to: #2754779 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread sdanaher - 2010-03-29 10:12 AM . dalessit - 2010-03-29 7:45 AM meherczeg - 2010-03-29 8:43 AM Polliwog - 2010-03-28 9:57 PM It was a good first tri for me. Sorry I didn't get to meet anyone. Swim sucked for me. Let the guy behind me (a foot taller than me) pass me, then ended up swimming up his when he got stuck behind several others. (There was some awful ugly swimming--if you can call it that--out there.) Banged the crap out of my knee getting out of the pool. Other splits went about as expected. I didn't like that the race volunteers let people mount before the line, and dismount way after. Wasn't fair, created jams in the transition chute and came close to creating some crashes. And the mud--spent an hour cleaning it off of all the gear today. What can I say? I had a blast! What's next? Did you see the guy - probably a bib around 200 or so - that was just dog paddling and back floating and basically doing EVERYTHING but swim??!! I don't care if you can't swim, but don't seed yourself up with the 1:45/100 group! SHEESH! My 10 second bump seemed to work well for me, I actually swam slower than planned but still had no one near me. The further you get from one of the breaks the worse it is, I think. Last year I had to swim over 6 or 7 people. It was awful, I was about 7 people before the next break, so there was plenty of backlog. i had a scissor kicker in front of me.... he changed four strokes in about 13m.. i had to stop to give him some distance so i could pass him at the wall. |
| 2010-03-29 9:50 AM in reply to: #2651355 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread There should be a time penalty for people that don't finish within a certain range of their estimated time--and definitely for people who clearly can't finish in the estimated time--like the guy who would wind up and windmill like crazy, then switch to breast stroke to get a breath, then wind up again.... And I think I also saw the dog paddler, taking alternating breaks on his back.... |
| 2010-03-29 12:33 PM in reply to: #2754536 |
Master 1996 Woodbridge , Virginia | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Polliwog - 2010-03-29 8:34 AM Definitely! Next in line are Tidewater Sprint in June and Colonial Beach in July. Might do Kinetic Sprint if I can get up to a respectable bike speed for 18 miles. (Saturday was my fourth bike ride ever.) where are you located? you can come ride with us.. weekends and during the week.. |
| 2010-03-29 5:20 PM in reply to: #2651355 |
Extreme Veteran 371 | Subject: RE: Smithfield Sprint Triathlon : Official Thread Thanks for the offer, but I'm several hours away from Norfolk. And still pretty wobbly on the bike--I'm afraid if I went on a group ride now, I would take out all of the VA BTers with me! That said, I bit the bullet and signed up for the Kinetic Sprint. Guess I'll have to get that mph up now! |
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