What color is your towel?

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2004-09-11 8:03 PM

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Subject: What color is your towel?
Lake Geneva Tri is over and so is this season for me. We Chris, Cindy, and I had a great time. I was very pleased with my overall time and thanks to the warm swim up last week my swim this week was much more comfortable. Now for the funny, frustrating part. T1 went well, I spotted my bike just fine. T2 was a bit more difficult. For my first two tri's I used a GREY towel for my spot. I ran up and down my aisle looking for a grey towel. Well, it was dark when I set up and I didn't realise I had grabbed a BLUE towel. So in my mind, I'm cutting a minute or two off my T2 time. :-)

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2004-09-11 8:19 PM
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Works for me...in my mind I'm cutting about 25 minutes off of myrun (see my other post).

And for what it's worth, I couldn't find my bike in T11.  Next time I am orienting myself from the swim, as well as to the bike in and out!!!

2004-09-11 8:22 PM
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Yellow, I find that I can spot it easy.

Roy
2004-09-11 9:37 PM
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Yellow and red Pokemon towel I 'borrowed" from my kids. Bright, and so very different from all the others it is easy to find in transition.

Congrats on the finish too.

"So in my mind, I'm cutting a minute or two off my T2 time. :-)"

It's your race you get to mentally edit what ever you want IMO :)



Edited by Laerka 2004-09-11 9:39 PM
2004-09-11 9:50 PM
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http://www.pascal-lecocq.com/shop/ico/bigtowel.jpg

And just in case, I have a small dive flag to wire tie to the bike rack...

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2004-09-11 9:52 PM
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Laerka - 2004-09-11 9:37 PM

Congrats on the finish too.

"So in my mind, I'm cutting a minute or two off my T2 time. :-)"

It's your race you get to mentally edit what ever you want IMO



oh well, Rookie44..........CindyK couldn't find her bike because she was looking for it in T11, not T1

Nice job to everyone who did Lake Geneva!



Edited by TypeA Girl Pilot 2004-09-11 9:59 PM

2004-09-11 10:49 PM
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TypeA Girl Pilot - 2004-09-11 9:52 PM
oh well, Rookie44..........CindyK couldn't find her bike because she was looking for it in T11, not T1  

Yeah, wait'll you see my "T11" time, it sucked



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2004-09-12 7:08 AM
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i have a big blue pak-towel that i use for swimming. nothing special. i have thought seriously about moving my daughter giant neon pink dinosaur honker horn to my road bike for tris. i planned to do it for my last race, but forgot. would make for easy spotting of the bike in all sorts of ways. would it be wrong to put a pink dinosaur on a celeste bianchi? hee hee.
2004-09-12 7:54 AM
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Hey Rookie - you have a medical condition - blue-grey colour blindness ;-) I think you should get extra credit for competing with a disability ;-) ;-) Dx
2004-09-12 8:57 AM
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I just use an old blue, purple, and red beach towel. I sight my yellow bike as opposed to the towel because it generally stands out more. In my last tri, I did go towards another bike that was yellow but noticed that it had a black saddle. I did not stop, I kept running toward that spot and scanned ahead. I spotted mine one row ahead and ran to it without breaking stride. Just lucky I guess. Oh, and the towel; it got torn when I picked it up because it was wedged under the bike stand!
2004-09-12 6:25 PM
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I use a towel that my kids are now too old to be seen with. White with bright pink winnie the pooh and roo. It makes me smile!

2004-09-12 6:34 PM
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Pooh and Roo....oh, ooh ooh! And Tigger too! He's my favourite!
2004-09-12 6:41 PM
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That's what I do. I "appropriated" the kids' old beach towels for my swim-training use. Sometimes it's a "Where's Waldo?" towel. There's also a bright red Chicago Blackhawks towels that I use sometimes. Kanga and Roo, if I'm really desperate.....Whatever's clean when I need a towel, I guess.

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