3 days before first triathlon... what do I say? (Page 2)

Visualizing my transition sequence multiple times before hand  helped me alot.  Maybe sit them together and have them close their eyes and then imagine putting their bike shoes on, putting their helmet on etc, the same for t2.  I don't remember anything about my transitions because I was so on autopilot from my visualization.  You could finish with a little calming breathing exercise and the finish line shout!

Cat you are a fine example of what triathlon is all about.  Thanks!

Aaaw schucks... thanks Kathy (KOM)!!

Im going to bring in my bag of gear tomorrow and actually walk through the transitions with them even if they have practiced it... I actually use the visualisation thing myself so I might try it! Thanks for the tip!!!

I talked myself throuth part of my first race with some of the quotes I found here on the site.  Particularly one from Pre :"You can quit.  Noone else will know, but you will" 

However, they may not be on here so eachone might want to find a phrase or quote to keep in their mind that works for them.  (ie--"I trained for this, I can do it"  

Encourage the earlier finishers to get out and cheer on each other as soon as they have enough recovery on tap.  Nothing cheers up the last one of a group more than seeing that the whole group is still cheering them--and nothing discourages faster than coming in and finding tansition packed up and noone cheering the last finisher.

Thanks everyone for your input! We've just had our get together and everyone is organised, excited and pretty happy!

Fingers crossed for the weekend now

The two comments that helped me most were:

1. You will feel very tired after the swim. Don't quit then, your energy will come back to you on the bike.

2. Do you know what they call the last person across the finish line? A Triathlete.

I pass these along to all the nervous-looking first-timers I see.