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The family are cool with it and understand what a massive thing it is to me. It is only a few years ago I was spending lots of time and money down the Pub. This is a far more productive lifestyle.
So the plan is to do maintenance training for the rest of the year and start to build it up again in the new year.
What a life
I don't think that I said it was anything to do with the organisation in my post .....whatever caused it (humidity, race pace etc etc etc) is an unknown but it was certainly remarked upon by the doctors in the hospital I ended up in as being unusual for the 3 years they had worked on IM UK to have most of the top 10 men through the door.
Personally I thought course organisation and the aid stations were excellent and the only thing that went wrong was the Buckshaw village station running out of sterilising tablets.
From a personal point of view I wouldn't swim in the Flash again either - there were 3 points where it smelled strongly of petrol (particularly at the far end near the marina) - I think boats had dumped their bilges up the far end. That said this didnt affect my swim in any way - but it wasnt a good situation to be potentially ingesting such stuff. Not suggesting that this made me chuck up later - that again is an unknown
Hi Kat
We were told to hold our bottles as we arrived and they refiiled from jugs. But at that point I had already binned one of mine....
The worry was that they were fishing bottles out of the skip and I think if you had tossed yours in their you would have been getting somebody elses when they eventually ran out of new bottles
Running out of tablets is one thing but not having any in the first place is bloody ridiculous!
No apologies needed the crews were fantastic!!!
Finally caught some coverage of Bolton on Eurosport 2 last night. The last two minutes should have been renamed The Andy B Show!
Rw
I'm OK matey. I'm just looking at the credit card bill it seemed a good idea entering last month on my card, but now wondering how I'm going to pay it before the end of this month.
How about you?
I kind of miss it in a way but also relieved that I'm not doing that kind of training anymore if you know what I mean?
Good luck for this years Ironman, I'll probably be in the crowd this year feeling envious of all those taking part in such an amazing event.