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PSOF Championships 2014 - Ironman France
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Happy Days!! Chooooooooooooooooooooo Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Well ... That's the bike booked for its annual holiday
BTA licence arrived today so thats that sorted, my mates gonna lend me his mega bucks bike box instead of my old bag, the plan is coming together the only glitch id thd training getting it done but the ladt 2 weeks have been a constant battle with a real deep fatigue might have to have a mega cutback week next week
You've had a few of those Max, worth getting the old iron levels checked ??
You'll be inhaling diesel fumes in about 7 weeks, that's my one memory of the swim course!!
Oh arse, I'd forgotten about that. Eww.
I'd sort of forgotten about the jelly fish too. Only sort of not....
Jelly what? Oh no. I'd forgotten about you talking about that. Yikes.
Couple of years back TLS and me took out daughters to Spain, Sue's youngest wouldn't go in the water as she would "get stung to death", after 2 days she finally went swimming and had a great time without getting stung. Me and my sprog who had teased her mercilessly both got stung to bits on the last day and had a very uncomfortable plane ride home !
So, shall I ask the obvious question....? What do we know about jelly fish repellent products? Did anyone use anything last time?
*wibble*
(ha ha ha - wibble - geddit?)
I believe the best repellent is to baste yourself in diesel.....
I got a bloody good jelly fishing off Cornwall last year so it can happen anywhere its painful but no worse than a wasp sting unless they have really dodgy ones off France so not worth worrying about really
The reason the swim smelt of diesel is that they drove a speedboat over the course for about 30mins immediately prior to us starting, to scare off all the jellys. So we dont really need to worry about them. Unless you're a really slow swimmer....
Dont worry, last time i was in there for a full 90mins, and i didnt get eaten alive, so I reckon you've got +/- 10mins to play with there in order to stay in the safe zone.
Think the bike descending will have caused more injuries and worse than the jellyfish, it's those you need to worry about
Swimming
Jelly fish
diesel fumes
hills on the bike course...
... How drunk was I when I entered this ????
Don't forget the run turnaround that smelled of pee.
It's great, this race. Really.
I'm just going to put it down to my increasing senility.....
I was quite excited.????
Oh yes .... Piss alley.
Piss alley just off shit street
can't wait
You'll need a hat for the run ... So you can't see the finish from the turnaround
Be afraid France, be very afraid. Barlos is coming back!
Will someone please say feck bugger shit poo arse for me when going through Tourettes sur loop if you wouldn't mind pretty please.
Good luck all.
I am so not looking forward to this anymore!
I won't get any money back so intend to turn up and swim. Then see how far I can get around the bike course. If I manage that, then I'll see how far I get around the run course.
It's not been a good year or a good time tbh. Hey-ho, onwards and upwards!
The only part I'm actually looking forward to is shouting out to all the crap swimmers!!
Dusty, I'll shout and swear through Tourettes for you mate!
Hey Siggy! You only have to do half the bike course, the second bit is downhill. Tuff run if it is hot though, it was even tougher to watch last time! Hope you make it mate. Tourettes is at about 25 miles so you can make that, nothing hairy in terms of upflats apart from about a hundred yards of up just outside of Nice. Luvly roads.