Sprint finish sounds good 
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Good luck & all that, but your sandbagging no longer has any credit with us 
. Have you tried it it with your IRL friends ?
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I’m a man of the coast. Beaches are in my blood!
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- Thinking about registering for IM Italy as its the only Ironman available in autumn, but it undermines my run-focus-until-run-sorted ethics
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Brilliant. Well done!
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Canadian event across a mammoth lake, common enough out there I believe!
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How did you get on @jeffb?
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How’d you get on today GB? Hard cruise or did you get carried away?
1:27:37 so about the best I could have expected with my current fitness. Pacing wasn’t great, went through 10k in about 40:45, but always worth a go in case you have a float day.
Probably should have had a gel or something at halfway as the last 6k was a struggle.
3 minutes off my PB from late 2019 but can’t be too disappointed after the injuries and lack of run specific training. And no real taper.
But, not in a terrible position so onwards and upwards 
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Good work. Can’t fathom that speed! 
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Good work @jeffb, sounds like you did as well as you could there. Decent conditions?
@Annas - what do you think?! I lined up with my mate and within 100m had left him and was running with the leaders! 
I knew all the boys at the head of the race, and also knew I’d be nowhere near them! Dropped back after a km and settled in to a lonely race.
Head was trying to cash cheques that the legs certainly could not afford. Total blow up at 10km, just in time for the hillier back half!
Dug in and did what I could. Found a bit more energy for the last coast path section of about 6-7kms when the first lady and another chap from my club (that I should be way faster than) started up the little trig point out and back that I was just leaving. That gave me the kick up the arse I needed.
Conditions were brilliantly awful underfoot. Coming down off the High point of the course on clay/sandstone mud was like sprinting on ice. It was the only time I was ever closing in the guy in front - when the terrain got bad!
Still had a great day out and glad I raced it properly even if my time is disappointing by my own standards.
Finished in 6th in 1.34.
Had I been fit (even 2 months ago me) I’d have had a good battle with 3rd and 4th. Some twats had been removing race signs though which pissed me off. What is the problem with people? Luckily I helped design the course so I knew where I was going!
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Three of those on my list, I’ll be at Oulton Park (distance undecided), Alsdorf and all being well Bilbao.
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Really good conditions, 8c and no wind, but the roads were pretty damp, Alpha’s are a bit mucky now.
Edit: couple of lads did 65’s, so fairly rapid.
Sounds good, it’s fun when you reel people in on a descent, until they take off again when it levels out! No idea why people remove the signs though, if someone ended up off course with search and rescue involved I wonder if they’d be proud of their achievements.
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Back in 2020 I was supporting my brother at the NDW. Insanely hot day and he ended up dropping at about 50 miles in. On our way back to the hotel he dropped me at about mile 80 and I ran in the final 20 as a bit of a training day. Those at the head of the race would be passing through that section about 5 hours after me.
I came across a woman deliberately taking down the course markings. I could see her (and what she was doing) from about 100m away and was working out what I might say when I reached her.
Any thoughts had were a waste of time. Before I had a chance to say anything she started screaming and shouting manically at me demanding to know why the markings were there ( the markings all had a written message on them saying why they were there and when they’d be removed). She wasn’t remotely interested in hearing my explanation or the fact that I had not put them there in the first place. I resolved to leave it and get in touch with the race organiser so they’d be aware that there was now a large unmarked section
About 250m further on from my bizarre encounter I came across a guy on a mtb who had obviously heard her yelling and he told me that just moments before she’d done the same to him but had also been throwing stuff at him.
Anyway I can’t speak for them all but in answer to the question above ‘why do they do it / what are they thinking?’ In this instance the answer is because she was clearly emotionally unwell.
I’ve spent a lot of time working on psychiatric wards but it’s always more bizarre when you encounter that sort of thing in civilian life.
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Where I live, I think this was more than likely old nimby’s! 
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Brilliant work @gingerbongo and @jeffb!
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Excellent work @jeffb @gingerbongo boom!
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I don’t really care about medals, but the one for my race was pretty cool. Race is called the Sir Walter Raleigh Round (I get to take credit for the name) as passes through WR’s birth village.
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Did you get a potato as well
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He doesn’t smoke
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