Amazing...just wasted (well enjoyed) the last 45 minutes reading this....what a laugh. Not since the warning threads have I chuckled so much. And to think I had one of these as a target....errrm I'm now not so sure!
Well done again guys, great reports, I'm very proud of you. Promise me you've got all the clowning around out of your system before Florida though Andy, there'll be no Austrian canoeists out there, just a couple of sharks hanging around looking for stragglers.
actually Mellsy that's a good point... we were discussing shark attacks with the surfers Don & Bill over dinner, and i said i'd be fine as i'd be right in the middle of the pack drafting off somebody's feet
we actually laughed at that fact that somebody bite sized and dead quick so they were out at the front might have a problem - i.e. you!!
right, its up to dangerous, caspar and jose to make sure that i swim with my eyes shit at tooting from now on. if i get eaten i will hold them personally responsible.
Great stuff.. Inspiring... Not sure its enough to get me to do an Iron man. I'll stick to ultras for now but tempting if I could just stop getting so bored when swimming.. A Huge Huge congrats to you both.. Have a rest!
I was already on the list for Switzerland!?! Can't remember signing up for that one. Quite happy to have my name there now though, after reading your reports I can't wait to do one.
I have no idea how I am going to follow that but after Andy telling me that I have to do the serious report, bearing in mind I didn't have my own canoeist or any handily cut scholl panty pads I feel a semi serious report coming on.
I had managed to avoid all the carnage of the previous 4 months heartache with Ryanair by deciding to travel to Slovenia with Easyjet landing at Llubjana(sp?). Free carriage for bike and only an hour from the race by hire car it turned out to be the best option after listening to some of the horror stories in Klagenfurt from Ryanair transport. Also at £30 return including taxes it was a great choice.
Arriving on the Thursday to a downpour that resembled rainy season in the Carribean wasn't the best start, this continued all of Friday reducing the IronCity to a muddy swamp and our own little Glastonbury, if this was what was instore for the race we were in trouble. Spoke to Andy on the Friday and arranged to meet at registration, after hearing of their exploits on the bike and still nursing a tight hamstring I decided not to ride the bike course but take it easy with some retail therapy in the IronCity, which subsequently earned me Forum Merchandising champion !!.
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Amazing.....IM is just a different class!
havent laughed this hard in ages....
Candy, I am, quite simply, in awe of you in every way..
a star is born!
Well done!
Am now suffering from double exhaustion - from laughing and my legs coming out in sympathy with yours!
Right you lot! I've now got two images burnt into my brain:
Monique fishing about in her pants and Andy being... Andy!
Great laugh too.
Bloody well done.
we actually laughed at that fact that somebody bite sized and dead quick so they were out at the front might have a problem - i.e. you!!
right, its up to dangerous, caspar and jose to make sure that i swim with my eyes shit at tooting from now on. if i get eaten i will hold them personally responsible.
Not option there though.
Well done, Monique and Candy!
Thanks for such a wonderful report.
Can't remember signing up for that one.
Quite happy to have my name there now though, after reading your reports I can't wait to do one.
Truly Inspirational!!
Possibly not quite in the manner you intended but inspirational none the less!!!
Not quite sure how you make 12hours+ of total horror sound so appealing (and devastatingly entertaining) but that must just be your 'gift'!!!!
Well done - especially on your old lady = Ironman comment Candy!
Amazing performances and fab write-up...
[Loon wanders off muttering about idiocy of this sort of undertaking whilst secretly planning to lurk on the Ironman thread............]
I've been chuckling for ages and have just increased my lunch hour by another hour.....opps!!!
Help you stay on track!
I had managed to avoid all the carnage of the previous 4 months heartache with Ryanair by deciding to travel to Slovenia with Easyjet landing at Llubjana(sp?). Free carriage for bike and only an hour from the race by hire car it turned out to be the best option after listening to some of the horror stories in Klagenfurt from Ryanair transport. Also at £30 return including taxes it was a great choice.
Arriving on the Thursday to a downpour that resembled rainy season in the Carribean wasn't the best start, this continued all of Friday reducing the IronCity to a muddy swamp and our own little Glastonbury, if this was what was instore for the race we were in trouble.
Spoke to Andy on the Friday and arranged to meet at registration, after hearing of their exploits on the bike and still nursing a tight hamstring I decided not to ride the bike course but take it easy with some retail therapy in the IronCity, which subsequently earned me Forum Merchandising champion !!.