Pirate UK Training weekend

Bouncing Barlist

Fantastic meating 'some' of you to, really was a great weekend and think the testing conditions on Sunday probably had more benefit than the physical training, I know our bike group were tested to near the limits of mental endurance but never lost their cool. That'll certainly be something in the mental tank when up against it on race day.

Oh im back safe despite some idiot parking his lorry on the inside lane by the M6/M1 sliproad.

Was well impressed by the large sausage on Friday night and extra portion this morning )

WildWill

yep was great


CARL

Has someone been slipping you an extra portion of sausage ?


;o)

debbo

Glad you're home safely Carl!

I enjoyed the weekend too, despite having no sausage. The biking was great fun yesterday, but wetter than the swim, as Calf said.

I drove through a blizzard on the way back this morning, but of course it is lovely and sunny in Scotland as always.

Avalaf

Was a great weekend if a bit wet, got lots of advice and was great fun.

See you all at Bala:)

M.ister W

Brilliant weekend, despite the rain. Mrs W tells me that the sun has been shining all weekend here in Bucks!!!

WildWill

Piate at con 14

WildWill

Try again

here

SluMdot

Whaaay thats me god I look terrible. Not helped by the fact the 80 year old woman is clearly out running me !!
I tripped her up later though
Great weekend guys run and ride were fantastic ... I still have to swim loads more
See you all soon
Paul

Iron Mike

Twas certainly good fun, although when i lifted my bike up to get it on the train, the frame decided to drain its contents all over my feet-there was a lot of water sloshing around in there. Haven't been in rain like that in a long long time! Paul, you gonna get those photos you took up? I can host them if you have nowhere to put them.

Imeccentric

Its Chris but thought this adequately described me , lovely to meet you all its bin emotional see you all soon I hope.

Was great to run ride and swim with other nutters

c

M...eldy

Home and a very nice mobile phone shop has just relieved me of £80 to replace the one that died somewhere in the vicinity of Conniston or Windermere or was it Loch Ness???



Fantastic weekend, many thanks to Lindi for the organisation xx

Lindi - Livin' the dream :-)

Just passing though home on my way to my conference - just hope my next bunch of customers are as easy to please and entertaining as you guys :-)

Glad every one had a lovely weekend despite the weather.

I'll speak to Mark soon and let you know about the swim clinic - I'll try adn go for 20th May and hopefully that doesn't conflict with too many peoples racing commitments.

Imeccentric

Donald shows us how its done at Coniston

http://www.staffsmoorlands-ac.co.uk/2006coniston14/2006Coniston14100.html

M...eldy

Try this !

Imeccentric

OK showoff , seems a bit surreal looking out the window as selfridges lights up for the evening !

Still at least I wont have to put up with Pauls snoring tonight .....

SluMdot

glad you made it back OK ... apologies to Colin and Will also for thr snoring ...I blame the guiness

M...eldy

I keep looking out the window to see if its raining yet

[Deleted User]

I'm glad it's flat here

Thank you for organising the weekend Lindi

Bouncing Barlist

If anyone fancies some training in April see:

Mr Smith Not so manic non- mountain bike mayhem April editions
Last ditch attempt to get some rideing done before the Frodo Whitton



15th 150kms

22nd 200kms

29th 150kms

Rides start @ Biggin Hill

FerrousFerret

Great weekend, lovely to meet those I haven't met before and to renew acquaintences (sp?). Thanks also to those offering experience from the 'been there done that' camp although I am still uncertain whether to be daunted or inspired.

Many thanks to also to Lindi for organising

debbo

Meldy there were no photos of us at Coniston. What a relief.

Lindi - thanks for the organisation and thanks also to Stewart for the bike stuff.

Donald

If it's of any interest to anyone today in Windermere there was a very cold wind, some bright sunny intervals, that were nicer and a lot of hail showers! (I left at 3:30ish).

It was great to meet you all and I look forward to next time.

Thanks for the organisation Lindi. And thanks to Stewart, Will and Mike for the bike and swimming tips.

[Deleted User]

Just wanted to say thanks to Lindi for all the organisation, I had a great weekend. And thanks to everyone else for their tips, advice and good company, I look forward to seeing you all in Germany if not before.

Also, thanks to Mike and Ava for bringing their IM DVDs along, seeing the atmosphere surrounding an IM event really helped bring home the reason for doing all this training, cheers.

Iron Mike

Slummo is in the process of sending over the photos he took. Once completed, i will host them on my website so we can all see how terrible we look on camera!

SluMdot

you should have them now

M...eldy

I hope it is lettuce free.

Iron Mike

Have only got the first lot slummo. I have cleared out my inbox incase that is stopping them coming through. Give it another go tonight if you get a minute.

SluMdot

you should have last of photos now.
see you all soon it was a top weekend

Lindi - Livin' the dream :-)

I spoke to Mark today - he's feeling a bit better and hoping to run swim clinics on 22nd April and 20th May so keep the dates free and I'll post more details when it is firmed up a bit.

SluMdot

Mike can we see the pics somewhere ??