The logistics are a total nightmare.. but that kind of adds to the challenge.
Just need to check the tide table before leaving London and make sure you get to the beach at exactly the right moment.
Please could someone go on ahead and set up my T2 for me, and if you could have a cup of tea and a peanut butter sarnie waiting that would be great :-)
oh no no no......I swim like a dead fish, couldn't make 20-odd miles in a millpond, never mind those huge friggin' cold waves between Blighty and the Froggies.
it's not just a question of the tides, but the sea state as well.........you need to get Dr Nic to post her comments on the channel swim............she did a 2 way relay this year - sea state started OK but total nightmare when they got to France and then decided to swim back! the official observer - a veteran of hundreds of channel swim observations - reckoned it was the worst conditions he had ever seen the channel swum in.
Lindi, it's not that simple. People can be left in Dover waiting for days for the right conditions (not just tides, but sea state - all the way across - and incoming weather). It's not a case of checking a chart of tides, sadly. You've got to take into account how fast you swim (or might swim in certain conditions) and therefore which tides you'll catch (or not - see FB's comments on our double earlier in the year).
Get used to saltwater and the cold (even if just cold face, hands and feet), people!
Was reading the guy's report of the 2004 attempt, with 3 miles until land he had a predicted swim time of 6 hours.....FFS - I think you forget just how slooooow you swim.
Gumps - so true. Had the very same Q with the girlie. Tried to expalin that Faster doesn't have the same appeal as further...but where and when do you stop?
Yes that happens a lot (in almost all swims) TC, not necessarily cos you've slowed (although of course you probably have), but more to do with the way the tides work. I still don't really understand it but basically you are swimming against the tide at that point so more or less on the spot.
the arch to arc sounds like fun as its a specific thing. otherwise i think, personally, that ironman is quite far enough. i was going to do the canadian double because the impression i got from rosey when we chatted about it in austria was that the swim was in a river. but the website says its actually ten gazillion lengths of a pool. s*d that, how boring.
ditto the deca - if it was "you have to do ten ironman races in fourteen days" then that would be OK (well, you know what i mean). but 1520 lengths of a pool followed by 1120 laps on a bike followed by 262 laps running would just get too boring.
ironman austria ten times. doddle. and they wouldn't need that much logistical support. two people with clipboards checking for cheating on the bike, 2 on the run (some IMUK cheaty people might sign up!) and a couple of rescue canoeists.
the canadian one is swum in the St lawrence River Candy. they did have problems with supertankers last year so it might change but I think its a river swim, the bike and run are still laps tho mate, sorry.
Did anyone else read that terrible novel which came free with one of the running mags? It was about the worlds hardest triathlon adn they went something like the length of North America. I thought it may have been called armageddon but amaxon disagrees.
I didn't dream it an I think it was written by a former british international runner
I'm probably teh only saddo who listens to podcasts from endurance radio when running. THere is a guy from 26th October last year talking about Deca training.
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I was talking to Andy Mouncey the other Friday about this challenge, he reckons it's a doddle as long as you can do that short swim.
Are you still thinking of this or have you come to your senses??
Seriously the logistics are the thing that can get in the way with the tides etc stopping you setting off for the swim for days in some cases.
The bike would be OK, the run a slog but the swim would understandably be a tough tough challenge.
there just isn't enough years left hehe
Just need to check the tide table before leaving London and make sure you get to the beach at exactly the right moment.
Please could someone go on ahead and set up my T2 for me, and if you could have a cup of tea and a peanut butter sarnie waiting that would be great :-)
Get used to saltwater and the cold (even if just cold face, hands and feet), people!
Nic - I'm still in awe.
further or faster?
(and thanks :-) )
ditto the deca - if it was "you have to do ten ironman races in fourteen days" then that would be OK (well, you know what i mean). but 1520 lengths of a pool followed by 1120 laps on a bike followed by 262 laps running would just get too boring.
lets email the organisers.
I didn't dream it an I think it was written by a former british international runner
if decaman really has changed, then lets do it. is it 10 in 10 days or 10 in 14 (which i have in mind from somewhere?)
err, 3-rest-3-rest-2-rest-2 gives you a day off to boo your comrades at the end.
right lets start a barlist
young master Collier
grampa Rose
dame Monique
grampa Rose
dame Hollinshead
consistency of nomenclature, always the way to go
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