What is your history in this sport. How many races have you done…?? How many per year…??
I’ve been doing this for about 5 years and race about 8-12 times per year.
Only 2 years or so. I’ve biked for 15+ years. Got bored, and tired of the roadie attitudes. I like it on the tri side, mostly because of the nice(r) people.
I still can’t swim worth a damn though.
Maybe 10 events a year (running, tri, du, bike, adv. racing, etc), I pretty much lump them all together.
Total events: I dunno, probably 150-200. Mostly cycling/mtn bike races.
I’ve only done 2 races. Last year was my first.
Due to knee pain I can’t seem to build up my running, so I’ll probably only do the handful of sprints in my area.
Hopefully I’ll do my first one this year (Memphis in May). Was supposed to do Disney in 2003 with TNT, but I couldn’t afford to bring my family with me and I refused to go alone, so I ended up doing a local century instead.
14 years and lots more to go. Average 10 tris per year.
I race, volunteer, help with logistics at a couple, announce at a few, and generally use tris to stay out of real trouble on the weekends.
First in 1984
next 2006
Junior UCI (equivilent) license 1981
Qualified for first non restricted cycling permit in 1983 as a Junior, crashed big time.
First one April '04. A sprint. Since then, four sprints, and half and a full.
10 YEARS! 
First one was the Escape from Alcatraz, after learning how to swim just six months earlier! I usually do one IM a year and then maybe 5 or 6 other races!
This my 20th year. Not sure how many I have done in total. I race about 15 times a year (on and off road tris, on and off road dus, splash and dashes, and a few running road races).
This will be my fifth season coming up. I did my first sprint at the young age of 49 in what was supposed to be just a one time thing.
First one was the summer of 1982 - Bud Light Series. Before wetsuits, aero bars and tri geometry. I rode a Bianchi Stelvio and thought I was hot stuff. I got kicked in the face 5 seconds into my first tri swim and began to question my hot stuff status. Drank much of the lake during the swim, which cooled off my hot stuff entirely. My second race that summer was at 4,000 feet in early September. It snowed several inches the night before the race, and they pulled a few dozen folks out of the lake with hypothermia. Riding wet and chilled was actually worse than being in the lake, but I was delirious and don’t remember that much.
Now I ride an old carbon Kestrel, stay back in the swim to avoid face-kicks, know I am not hot stuff, and on occasion get an age-group podium if the numbers are low enough…
14 years. About 5 races per year average. Events include, crits, TT’s, mountain bike racing, sprint tri’s through IM’s.
What is your history in this sport.
First race…Rinconada Tri at Stanford in 1987.
How many races have you done…?? A lot.
How many per year…?? 87-90 we would do probably 5-8 per year (and back then they only cost $30-40). In 2004, I did one sprint, two HIM and two IM races. Also 4-5 bike races and a couple (three?) of century rides.
This year the plan is two IMs, 4 HIMs (or 3 HIM and one Aquabike thingie), a sprint, an Oly maybe and a few bike races.
clm
"First race…Rinconada Tri at Stanford in 1987. "
My first race was there as well (see the “Memories of your first tri” thread a week or so ago) but a couple years earlier…it was called “Rapp’s Triathlon” (Rapp’s was a shoe store) and I did the run leg of a relay; did come back at least one other year to do the sprint solo, so our paths might have crossed at some point.
I’ve been all over the map as far as quantity of racing—from zero in a year to 20 or so, and I’ve long ago lost count. Still trying to work out the schedule for this year!
First triatlon was 1985 Santa Barbara short course.
450yd swim/6mile bike/ 2 mile run !
And I was scared to death!
Colin
About 15 years, maybe 40 or 50, not sure, 7 last year.
Aloha,
Larry
First was in Sep '99 at Reed’s Lake. Have since done an avg of 10 a season. Had what I consider a break through season last year with significant PR’s up to a HIM. The IM wasn’t quite so successful but that is another story. Looking at 7 or 8 sprint/olympic with 2-3 HIM to keep the long training going. Hope to win an IM Hawaii slot in my 70’s 'cause I hope to out live the rest of my age group.
racing since about '97. being from Nova Scotia, we have a fairly short season (really only 2 months of racing…the water is just too damned cold!!), so I tend to get in between 4 and 6 a year (including du’s).
kurt
3rd year of multisport du 3 sprints, 1 oly, 1 1/2, Tri 1 sprint so far. Run lots of 5ks, 1/2 dozen 20ks, 2 1/2 marathons, 1 50k. I have never done a 10k or a marathon.
This year less running more tri planning a sprint du, an oly, and 2 1/2s. Would also like to catch a crit and an adventure race. Bagged my ironman plans for this year due to some scheduling conflicts.
1981 - Penrod’s Tinman Triathlon in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I had never done a mile swim or cycled 25 miles, but I had finished a 10K. I wore a football helmet with the face guard and used a friends bike that I did not ride until race day. I had been married for three months and lost my wedding ring during the swim. (I’m still married after 24 years)
Do not know how many races I have done since 81 - would guess around 10-12 per year until the late 90’s. Now I do about 5 per year.
I organized my first sprint triathlon in 1985 in south Florida. Have been race directing since then in Florida and around the country.
I attend about 20-25 races each year as an announcer, consultant and gopher for RD’s. I would guess that I mixed or poured more Gatorade in the last six years then anyone else in the world. (I know that I have put up more Gatorade inflatables than anyone else)
The sport has changed alot in 25 years, but the one thing the has remained constant is the great people you meet at the races - athletes, volunteers and race directors. Passionate People who love life. Z