Trifuel's First Annual Virtual Triathlon
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beads1985 posted 44 weeks ago.
I am interested. I'll have to get back to you on a date though. ;-)
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suckafree posted 44 weeks ago.
This is great! I'm up for any sat or sunday and would sign up for the oly distance!
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suckafree posted 44 weeks ago.
This is great! I'm up for any sat or sunday and would sign up for the oly distance!
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SueR posted 44 weeks ago.
I am in for Oly, also sat or sunday and will put my partner in for the hat relay at a sprint distance for the run. Ours will be indoors and pool though...
Yay!
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jtrimom posted 44 weeks ago.
I'm in for an oly on Sunday...preferably NOT in the heat of July or Aug, but, hey, it'll be another training day in Houston....just a request :)
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jsk85 posted 44 weeks ago.
I'll do Oly...it'll be between late May and end of June depending on what weekends I have available. A good (and cheap) tune-up for my HIM's in the fall. Now I also have the course finding issue.
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TRI_LOVE_518 posted 44 weeks ago.
What day is it gonna be?
"The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen." ---Nike
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chekmarks posted 44 weeks ago.
i'm in for a early may OLY.
there should be an award for the hardest course too, since we are all doing different ones.
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Anton posted 44 weeks ago.
What do you mean "I doubt anyone will do the Ironman"?
Count me in @ that distance.
Just give me a little lead time.
We gonna get a T shirt?
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gfd posted 44 weeks ago.
Anton wrote:
What do you mean "I doubt anyone will do the Ironman"?
Count me in @ that distance.
Just give me a little lead time.
We gonna get a T shirt?
If we can hold off until May or June I will do the IM swim or bike. I bet some of the advanced trifuel swimmers do close to 2 miles on a regular basis so adding the .4 would not be a problem. Getting someone to do the run might be difficult unless somebody is training for an Ultra.
We could probably ger quite a few of the people IM training for teams for HIM distances. Just a normal part of training on medium distance days.
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nanhosen posted 44 weeks ago.
Saturday would be preferable, Olympic for me!
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TonisTri posted 44 weeks ago.
I'll do the Oly. A sat or sun is fine. the earlier in the season the better so we can all uses this as part of our training. just my opinion.
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advobwhite posted 44 weeks ago.
Okay, so we have may-june so far for time frames, 1 sprinter, 1 IM, 1 sprint relayer, a good idea about those in IM training doing the half relays, 8 oly, and i think i will be doing the sprint, since that is what i'm currently training for....OR i will volunteer to do a leg of the OLY(i'll be a free agent if we need one). I'm thinking we pick a week, and you choose the time/day and course, that way not only will you get to have a fun course, but you can decide to do it on a nice sunshine day if you choose to do something like the beach, or an offroad trail run in the woods when its pooring down rain. you control the weather! we report to a forum thread the times and splits and stuff. ideas for contests anybody? we have the hardest course, how bout the most insane or dangerous course, the most scenic course, the most metropolitan course, the course most envied by other trifuelers etc. and yes, we can have t-shirts. I guess I'll go and get t-shirts made and mail them out, if somebody wants to design a shirt, and I will take donations for the shirts if anybody wants to help out *wink wink*. any other ideas you guys want to throw out?
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TonisTri posted 44 weeks ago.
We need a cool slogan for this if you are doing t-shirts. "triathletes even do it in cyberspace" or "run, bike, swim: anywhere, anytime, anyplace" okay, neither of those are great. SerialKiller should be able to come up with something. Other suggestions?
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mtbke15 posted 44 weeks ago.
If its around end of May or beginning of June I have a HIM scheduled for June 8th so that would work great for me. Otherwise count me in for Oly during that time.
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J.Michael posted 44 weeks ago.
I'll do a full oly solo, or the bike or run leg of a HIM on a team. (I'd hate to stick any team with my swim times.)
I'll be up for any weekend that's not to close to May 17th. Preferably a Sat.
(May 17th is my HIM in Orlando)
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Ironmom posted 44 weeks ago.
I'll do an Oly by myself, and am happy to do the swim portion of any IM or HIM team. I do over 2.4 as a regular workout distance anyways, no sweat to do it continuous.
gfd if you're up for the bike, we just need a marathon runner, any takers??
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gfd posted 44 weeks ago.
[quote=Ironmom
gfd if you're up for the bike, we just need a marathon runner, any takers??
Sounds great. Maybe somebody is doing a May or June marathon? Maybe we could also count April marathons if more people are interested in the IM distance relays? I believe Beads is planning on running the Jersey Shore Mary. I don't remember if it is April of May.
Shirt idea: Front- Trifuel Triathlon
Sprint/OLY/HIM/IM
Back- A list of every city/town and state it is taking place in.
It will look like a concert shirt and will be sure to inspire questions from people.
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Anton posted 44 weeks ago.
I'm digging your shirt idea, Garen. Maybe we can get Tribro to help with that as long as he has money up front...
"If e wishes to sweem in dangerous waters, oo are we to deny im?
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bes5920 posted 44 weeks ago.
I'm in for an early May Sprint. It would make a great first swim in the lake near my house. All I have to do is figure out how you measure that kind of distance in the water. I'll take pictures of the course and post.
I also like the T-shirt idea.
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jtrimom posted 44 weeks ago.
oohhh this is coming together so nicely- I like the "pick the week" that way we can just do it on the best weather day or available day.
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Tamara posted 44 weeks ago.
I have a HIM in early May, but any other weekend I'd be up for an Oly.
Question re: the rules...do "transition times" count? I.e., Heading out on the bike straight from the local pool would likely mean having a backpack unless I could convince my husband to sherpa there. Will the race be truly back to back, or is there space for travel-time transitions (presuming it's in good faith and not an 8am swim and 4pm bike, for example)?
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xc800runner posted 44 weeks ago.
If this is happening in May, count me in for either swim or run on an oly or half relay. I'd even be willing to jump on a 2 person team if someone wants to do the bike and I'll hit both run and swims with a 1-hour break between for oly or 2-hour interlude for a half. I'm planning an all out 10k some time in May anyway, so the relay will fit right in. If this is the 2nd or 4th week of June, I have olys already on the schedule, so I'll be down for that. (Will this count if we're at an actual race, not just going virtual? I like the convenience, but it does give people the advantage of support crews on course and other competitors to chase down).
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SueR posted 44 weeks ago.
Don't forget the provinces and countries on the T shirts. My Oly will be a full oly myself, May would be fine for us as well. My partner is signed up for her first Tri in August, so the 5k will be fun for her, even though her first "live" race will be 300/15/3. Looks good!
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advobwhite posted 44 weeks ago.
we could have 2 seperate divisions...one w/ straight tris w/ traditional transitions, and one where you just post the times of the seperate legs, and not worry about transition(given its as back to back as possible, and within reason, as you mentioned.) that way you could do something like swim @ the beach, bike downtown, and run trails, or something(would be something i'd consider.)
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mwconstruct1972 posted 44 weeks ago.
I am in for a solo Oly and/ or a swim or bike for a half if needed.
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cutiger95 posted 43 weeks ago.
'I'm in as I have several events coming up.
5k roadrace on April 17,
Metric century on April 25th,
And a full 104 up to the top of Mt. Mitchell on May 18th, that should count for the bike of an iron i think.
Could also do Oly or HIM distance Bike or Run on any other Sat. or Sundays not aligning with the above.
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Nikkibc posted 43 weeks ago.
This sounds awesome! I'm in for the sprint or the oly. I like the anytime in the week idea.
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Socket posted 43 weeks ago.
I love the t-shirt idea, especially making it look like a concert shirt :-)
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cayman posted 43 weeks ago.
Did someone say t-shirt, count me in for an IM run portion. Pick a month April, May or June
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advobwhite posted 43 weeks ago.
lets go mid may or mid june.....i've got a B race sprint memorial day weekend....if i do a brick, and get somebody to do the swim for the sprint, i can have it as a workout.....if not i'll just do it as a sim tri and tone down the intensity before my race....or in june i can go all out.
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beads1985 posted 43 weeks ago.
gfd wrote:
gfd if you're up for the bike, we just need a marathon runner, any takers??
Sounds great. Maybe somebody is doing a May or June marathon? Maybe we could also count April marathons if more people are interested in the IM distance relays? I believe Beads is planning on running the Jersey Shore Mary. I don't remember if it is April of May.
I am doing the NJ Marathon, first weekend in May. Count me in.
I think I might be doing an early season Xterra sprint tri too.
'Nothing to it, but to do it!'
Okay, I've taken it on myself to spearhead this, since I made the original thread and from the replies I got, it was split 50/50 of virtual tri and meet somewhere, so to make it a fun and relaxed thing that you can pencil in as a brick'ish type workout midseason let's do a virtual tri and YOU pick the destination where you do it, no pressure just good fun! So, this can be the unofficial registration thread for it. Here are the races, I doubt anybody will do the Ironman, but if we have any takers....I'll put it in here anyway.
Sprint:
500m swim, 15 mile bike, 5k
Oly:
1.5km swim, 25 mile bike, 10k
Half Ironman
1.9km swim, 56 mi bike, and 13.1 mi run
Ironman
3.8km swim, 112 mi bike, and 26.2 mi run
3 person relays will be accepted in the form of Hat relays. Basically, sign up for whatever leg you wish to do, we will put your name in a hat, and whatever teams are drawn, it will be the combined total for that. The only prizes will be bragging rights on the forum. Let me know how you guys feel, or if you just wanna have one distance for everybody or what you guys wanna do?