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PSOF Championships 2014 - Ironman France
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I understand its 4pm at The Flower Market (?) in Old Town but open to correction on that if I am wrong ????
I'll listen for the noise
great racing everyone
Have fun at the booze up ... I mean award ceremony
Congratulations to all, sounds like a tough's day racing, well fought out. Enjoy yourselves
Great report Magna Carter. Sounds like a tough day all round. Must be beer o'clock by now, surely?
I looked twice for your name and couldn't find it....well done
and I didn't know Dermets name either
MC.great report and well done on the race.seems like you had all weathers in one day.....
Great racing one an all. Enjoy the beer.
MC great report
Lil Sis well done on the PB
Good jawb everyone
Where is the flower market?!
If you walk east along the Promenade, a little past where you initially entered to take your bike into transition (the old gits end of the bike transition) then there's a long wall with a few arched entrances. The flower / veg market is the other side.
Alternatively, if you walk down the main road where all the trams are there is a fountain on the other side. Go down the steps and along the road in front 200m, take a right and the flower market starts just on the left.
Ok have goggled it, is it just loiter around till we see noisy people?
If anyone is interested in what the conditions on the bike course were like, this pic taken yesterday sums it up nicely....
Got rather 'interesting' on the steeper bendy bits!
For anyone in the Ibis, we're meeting in the Ibis bar at 15:30 to catch a tram, rather than walk/shuffle!
We are gonna try to enter Austria so may be a little delayed.....
Looks and sounds like a tough day at the office. Chapeau to all competitors and finishers
Chapeau to all the competitors whatever the pack of cards of luck dealt them and hearty congrats to the supporters too who I know will have worked bliddy hard as well!
Enjoy the day and hope the sun shines on your beer up - especially having seen that photo of the bike conditions........decidedly most un-Med like
Getting there
The airline strike properly messed with my head as i wondered would it happen or not then a major tyre blowout on my way to the airport caused by a spanner???? Made me wonder if someone upstairs was giving me a hint.
Swim
The swim was a biffest fill stop and at the austrailian exit the first time bloody dangerous i top a very wide course so i could swim and not fight which although mafe for a much increased distance meant at least i could crack on. Time was 1:20 ish so ok with that
Got in the crowd waiting to get off the beach with Pingu we had some american woman bellowing at everyone to run where to? The stairs were a real pinch point i just relaxed and went with the flow
Bike
Through transition and on the bike smooth french road instead of the glorified farm tracks we have in cornwall meant i was cruising effortlessly at 25 mph on the flat then the road went up!
TBH i love hills and train on them all the time so felt strong throughout what i wasnt prepared for was the french sunny day turning into a bad rerun of that crap year at Bala! For some reason i had stuck some arm warmers in my pocket which turned into a lifesaver, i suffer from reynauds and it wasnt long before my hands were white, waxen and devoid of feeling which made measured control of the brakes difficult.
Commiserations and hugs to those who didn't make it or who
had to make tough decisions. With all the best preparation in the world IM race day will always be unpredictable and a bit of an untameable monster.
I had a great day supporting. It really is something else to see you guys out there. Without exception your grit and determination impressed me and I had a lump in my throat and blinky eyes more than once!
I can't help but be mega proud of Garr for finishing. He really suffered on the run. He will definitely be training for Austria!
Having raced 3 Ironman races myself it was good to have the supporting experience. It really made me appreciate the times some of you have been there for me all over again! The last 90 mins were pretty stressful lol, so I can really empathise and am hugely impressed for the partners, husbands and wives, kids, parents, friends who year after year support their loved ones through the incredible experience of achieving their Ironman dream! You lot are ACE!
Mrs.Symes, Mrs. Funkin, Meldy and Baby Pingu - thanks for keeping me calm when I was fretting!
Pirates rock and then some!!
I would like to think T2 was slick but in reality i probably dithered like Mrs RBM clothes shopping. Out onto the run the music and support got the hairs on the back of the neck standing the plan was to take it steady snd run the lot i was having a great run lapping up yhe support from the pirate crew and Siggy futher out on the course the tun was going great until i pulled up with mega cramp right in front of the pirate crew
Overall mega happy with that given the conditions in the dry it would have been a lot quicker but hey ho you deal with what you get on the day
Definately a year off IM next year
Good reports MC and RBM!
Just a thought about the meeting place later. France are playing Nigeria today and the Flower Market has several large TV's placed around it! That *may* interrupt our planned festivities a tad!
Here's a link to a video of some of the pirate finishers and then a few of the people from the final hour. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1enfQ7FbHSo
I'm at the market now I misjudged the time it would take to walk here !! Give me a bell if anyone is about ? 0seven721630430
Top bombing all. Lil sis, if its under 17 hours, it counts as far as I am concerned!
Raynauds is shit, especially on a bike. Hope it came back shortly into the run after repeated windmills...
Oh god Funkin that's made me all emotional, that's fab!
Great vid, funkin
The thought of you guys slogging your way up the Nice climbs kept me going when the road headed upwards in Austria.
Well done all
I don my hat to all of you who finished yesterday ( and have done it previously ) despite only doing 67km of the bike it was without doubt the hardest 67km I've ever done ! You all have my upmost respect
Thank you Seren. Was just coming to do that!!!