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Is iit being too ambitious to aim for half-ironman in the next 18months?
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In the same way Peugeot can't call their next car a Ford Focus
It's not about applying to call your event an HIM or IM, like I said don't worry about it
Ps you can call yourself what ever you want, I say I have done 4 Ironmen but only 2 were actually IM branded events
If the Wild Boar was an official Half Ironman event - the entry fee would probably be 3x the current £80.
The difference in length is purely down to how long the loop is - it is just under 21km from memory. I did one loop last year in 51.02 mins this year in 44.17 mins
definitely enjoyed this years ride a lot more!
Am winding down training as lichfield sprint in two weeks - will post outcome whatever it is.
When you do the Boar you will be able to say you have done an official middle distance event, that is the same as a half Ironman...
Don't understand why you say doing the Boar is good practice before you do a proper one !
A) you might annoy the organisers of the Boar
You might note that the World a Triathlon Corporation never call them Half Ironmen anyway. They always call them 70.3
I know it wont be any easier just because it doesnt have the official tag. Think i will print out the run route for it too so i can give that a try too.
It's the name of a multi million dollar American corporation....
You are saying that a Tesco Race For Life Is more official than the club 5 km I raced on Wednesday !
They are both the same race distance, ergo the are both the same
TNLN you may be interested in LDWA (long distance walking association) challenge events. They are long walks, but some people jog. Dead cheap.
Think i will need a rest after 5th october!
Hello Tri,
How did you get on with your trial run of the bike circuit? Saw plenty out on Saturday and yesterday around Bosworth - not so many today through!
Up thread I mentioned the Leicester Castle Classic sportive (was last Sunday). I would say its one to put on your list for next year as was a really nice steady route, no real climbs but plenty of sections to get your toe down.
hope your training for Lichfield and ToNF is going well!
Didnt go out on bike sunday after all. Tbh dont want to tempt fate by having a mishap which cd jeopardise lichfield & the TONF. Also although its nice she wants to come out riding sometimes i wd like to go out on my own- nearly went out yesterday but deccided not to as if she had seen me she wd have been hurt. Do you know what i mean? How do i tell her that i wd like to go out on my own without offending her?
Not worried abt tonf as have done almost the distance - 60k.As for lichfield sprint have started winding down. Will do a trial run of bike leg at some point - not rushing as not planning to do it until 2016. Working on swim - managed to do 1/2mile in 33mins today building up to do 1 mile in an hour.
just keep on with consistant training and you will get better...well done on the swim
Keep your swim sessions short until you have the right technique and have built speed, battering up and down a pool for a mile in an hour IMO is not the way to go at this stage
learn the skills and then build time/distance, no need at this moment for anything more
Just go out and ride your bike - you don't need to tell your friend. If she sees you just tell her you fancied going for a ride. Don't make excuses not to train.
Well done on the swim. If the club has some coached sessions for people learning front crawl it would be worth going. I could hardly swim front crawl at all but made great progress when I had someone telling me what I was doing wrong and helping me.
They understood how i felt & rather than me feel left out of club swim sessions offered a solution which allowed me to swim the stroke i oreferred whilst still being with my club mates. The session doesnt start back till 2 sept.
You might not like fc but if it saves energy for the bike / run it has to be worth sticking with it
Me too. First two races were full distance...
shutup you lot
you lot started from a different place to the OP
I'll need to refer to the How bad were you... thread for comparison, but almost a year to the day before Outlaw I got my 1000m badge in the pool with my then 8 year old son, that was about 600m further than I'd gone before