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  1. Original post
    dejonica
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    did my 1st triathlon today🙂
    the details are:
    400m swim
    10km ride
    4km run

    i think my overall time was about 60mins. pretty [censored] compared with some aus
    post guy who finished in 39 mins but i was just glad i didnt need to be
    dragged into a life boat🙂
    the running paths were a bit narrow when you needed to overtake or were
    being passed..
    also each time i saw a red light on beach rd i had to tell myself to not
    slow down, and there's no need to stop🙂

    some training details:
    i ride to work 2 or 3 days a week (13km ride, surrey hills to clayton) do a
    long ride on the weekend usually 60-100kms.
    since late december ive been running 2 or 3 times a week usually 2.5 to
    3.5kms at a time and ive been swimming 2 or 3 times a week.
    When i 1st started training for this in december, i couldnt swim 25m without
    stopping, could run approx 800m before needing to walk and weighed about
    94kgs (now 87kgs). so the training has really done me some good🙂 i dunno if
    i'll bother with ever doing the serious events in the future but these
    semi-serious / fun events will be good to keep the training motivation up..

    now onto those mid june audax rides..they seem more appealing than jumping
    into the bay at 9:30am without a wetty..

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  2. flyingdutch
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    and you dont get confronted by scary images like innapropriate use of speedos :-)

    (and insane people who cant understand you must have the latest/greatest/lightest/carbon
    est fandangly bike known to man to ride! geesh...

    -

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  3. dejonica
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    "flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    and you dont get confronted by scary images like innapropriate use of


    speedos :-)

    Quoted message said:


    (and insane people who cant understand you must have the


    latest/greatest/lightest/carbon-

    Quoted message said:

    est fandangly bike known to man to ride! geesh...)

    i was happy knowing that i finished the bike ride and was only passed by 2
    or 3 other riders who all had fancy carbon type tri bikes with disc / tri
    spoke wheels of some description.

    as for innapropriate use of speedos, is there ever an appropriate use?🙂 (as
    far as men wearing them)
    as my wife and i were walking towards the transition area for me to start,
    some hairy dude in speedos was telling his mate "one thing i forgot this
    morning, was to shave around my crotch, cos dude, that was like murder on
    the bike" (yes he was american) i guess he got a free brazillian yesterday
    morning🙂

    i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride since
    around the bay

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  4. flyingdutch
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    Dejonica said:

    " i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride since
    around the bay

    which one? i like em but they are always big commitment as they are i
    far-flung places and as we are a 1 car family (more cycling expenditur
    :-P), getting there incurs the wrath of 'she whom must be obeyed

    done the Fernshaw?Lake Mtn one (ouch!) and alpine classsic twice now an
    a couple of others too. longer/slower, mmmmmm

    -

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  5. Ritch
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    flyingdutch <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:

    and you dont get confronted by scary images like innapropriate use of speedos :-)

    (and insane people who cant understand you must have the latest/greatest/lightest/carbon-
    est fandangly bike known to man to ride! geesh...)

    --

    Speedos are used for measuring speed on a bike, they really shouldn't
    be used to sit on the saddle...

    I think you might have the triathlon crowd mixed up with the Sunday
    morning club ride crowd (regarding no-expense-spared equipment vs
    actual usefulness).

    Pooh. Another them and us exercise. FWIW, I ride with "cyclists"
    (whatever that means) and race triathlon - all without the benefit of
    carbon fibre or disc wheels. Then again, I'm not quite at the elite
    level in either.

    Ritch

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  6. dejonica
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    "flyingdutch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Dejonica said:

    " i'm looking forward to my 1st audax🙂 it'll be my 1st 200km ride


    since

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    around the bay

    which one? i like em but they are always big commitment as they are in
    far-flung places and as we are a 1 car family (more cycling expenditure
    :-P), getting there incurs the wrath of 'she whom must be obeyed'

    done the Fernshaw?Lake Mtn one (ouch!) and alpine classsic twice now and
    a couple of others too. longer/slower, mmmmmmm

    these are the two i'm looking at.
    not sure if i'll just do one or both
    Seaford Loops 200
    Saturday 5 June 2004 - Seaford, VIC
    200km - Road - Supported - Full Moon
    See the sea in one or two scenic 100km loops around the Mornington
    Peninsula.
    Two bays from Town
    Saturday 26 June 2004 - Albert Park Lake, VIC
    200km - Road - Unsupported - First Quarter Moon

    First a flat, fast frolic to Frankston, a circuit of the Peninsula,
    attack the altitude of Arthurs Seat, then back to town.

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  7. flyingdutch
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    "I think you might have the triathlon crowd mixed up with the Sunday
    morning club ride crowd (regarding no-expense-spared equipment vs actual
    usefulness)."

    Actually i was referring to audaxers who just ride whatever for
    reliability and comfort (the fools, dont they know they could save 1.5
    grams if they bought Ti blah, blah, blah)

    "FWIW, I ride with "cyclists" (whatever that means) and race triathlon.

    Hope you aint one of dem that finds riding in a straight line very
    tricky :-P Tri-ers are very scary to ride anywhere near, me finds All
    those anti-drafting rules isnt necessarily a good thing...

    --

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  8. Ritch
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    flyingdutch <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

    Quoted message said:


    Hope you aint one of dem that finds riding in a straight line very
    tricky :-P Tri-ers are very scary to ride anywhere near, me finds All
    those anti-drafting rules isnt necessarily a good thing...

    'fraid not... I'm equally mediocre riding on the aerobars as I am in a
    group (though not on the aerobars _in_ a group - that is a sure way to
    visit casualty)

    Ritch

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