Triathlon anyone? (contains cycling)
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Gold & Bronze - well done Bownlees!0
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Agree with Cav. I found the tactics on the bike leg completely baffling.
Mark Cavendish @MarkCavendish
Watching the Olympic Triathlon. Amazing how tactically different the bike leg is from an actual cycle race. Brownlee Brothers look strong.0 -
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What are the penalties for?0
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Rick Chasey wrote:
Ahh, right, riding in the transition zone!0 -
moving your bike before you put your helmet on.
At non draft events you get penalties for drafting too, but usually it's time added to your finish time.
I know an early crash was mentioned, a lot are caused early on as riders are trying to put their shoes on or take on food/drink. Still a bit silly.
Get yourself to an amateur race where the bike start is at the bottom of a hill, amusing to watch people trying to put their shoes on and cycle up a hill at the same time (I just used to run to bike out in my bike shoes, jump on and clip in...)0 -
greasedscotsman wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:
Ahh, right, riding in the transition zone!
No, riding in the water
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Time to wheel out this bad boy.hammerite wrote:moving your bike before you put your helmet on.
At non draft events you get penalties for drafting too, but usually it's time added to your finish time.
I know an early crash was mentioned, a lot are caused early on as riders are trying to put their shoes on or take on food/drink. Still a bit silly.
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Rick Chasey wrote:Time to wheel out this bad boy.
OMFG they should come along to one of my Go-Ride sessions. I have 8 year olds that could show them a thing or two.
One of the ITU races last year showed a woman going round the bend, hitting a kerb and landing flat on her face. Understandably she was a bit shook up, so sat on kerb to recover a bit..... exactly where she'd crashed.
Cue a rider coming round the same corner and riding straight into her! Some people don't have any common sense.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:greasedscotsman wrote:Rick Chasey wrote:
Ahh, right, riding in the transition zone!
No, riding in the water.
So what sort of penalty do the team from Ghana get?
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greasedscotsman wrote:What are the penalties for?
Not wearing a vest but a real cycling top.0 -
Mocketh not - i give you the Trivent shoe - the cutting edge of shoe - I wont spoil it for you....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFPS2_2Isk8The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
So where did Armstrong finish? 0
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Great!Rick Chasey wrote:
Time to wheel out this bad boy.hammerite wrote:moving your bike before you put your helmet on.
At non draft events you get penalties for drafting too, but usually it's time added to your finish time.
I know an early crash was mentioned, a lot are caused early on as riders are trying to put their shoes on or take on food/drink. Still a bit silly.
I wonder how the girl with the yellow helmet and shoes got on with that trailing shoe (0-37).
I know of someone who got in a mess having got on the bike, because first when moving off and trying to slip his feet in, he noticed he’d put the shoes in the clips the wrong way around (left on right, etc).
The main problem I’ve found is when several people try and get on their bikes not a yard over the line, like the girl at 0-17. If the course is narrow, it doesn’t take many fumbling people and bikes to soon block the area and, to get over the line yourself, you have to push and shove your way in.
I always done the same as hammerite - put shoes on, then ran to line in them – but it hasn’t always prevented me appearing an idiot. One time I grabbed the bike and had ran halfway to the line before I noticed the different saddle and thought, somebody's stolen my saddle. And then it dawned what I'd done. :oops:
(The bike was next to mine, same size, colour, bar tape and levers, etc, I didn't at first notice the different make)0 -
I run to line in shoes, move to side, stop, and get on like I would when I ride to work in the mornings.
No doubt a perfectly executed cyclocross mount would be faster, but family and friends who've been to watch me have said I'm generally faster than the people they see wildly leaping onto bikes flailing all over the place.0 -
All these different techniques, I get by watching it once every four years on the telly.
Works for me, I enjoyed it today0 -
How fast did they ride the bike section?0
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Funny you should say that, Alistair Brownlee may turn to track after incredible run in gold medal performance:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olym ... 21826.html
I think the bike split was 58-59min for 43km IIRC.0 -
So the bike leg is quite slow considering drafting is permitted, about what a reasonable club TTer would do over a similar distance (albeit on open roads).0
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I think you'd need to be a bit better than the average club TTer to keep up with the pack. It wasnt a dragstrip course at all - lots of twists and turns. And although the average speed wasn't mind boggling - with the breaks going they would have peaked a bit more.
The run is the most impressive part. Less than 90 secs of a Gold Medal pace and did you see all the twists and turns they had to run round ? Put him on the track and you have to wonder how close he would get to Mo Farah.0 -
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If my maths is correct the bike leg of the triathlon was ridden at a very similar speed to the average speed of the road race, which was nearly 6hrs around 26.5mph av. So pretty quick but in terms of the pro's they'd do a crit in excess of 30mph av.
Stand out part was clearly the run which was pretty amazing.0 -
DeadCalm wrote:I'm no expert on triathlon but wasn't persisting with that break for so long a little bit stupid?
Apparently not, all three medalists came from the break.0 -
ShinyHelmut wrote:DeadCalm wrote:I'm no expert on triathlon but wasn't persisting with that break for so long a little bit stupid?
Apparently not, all three medalists came from the break.
They were just obviously the strongest 3 - ignoring all the tactics.0
