Tracker has informed me we are in the “magic hours” at Cascais…I’m biting my nails waiting for Joe’s 41.3km time check to register! 
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Hoping the timing mat hasnt worked and hes about to finish
App has lost him
He’s back! Less than 1k to go 
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He’s done
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He’s only gone and done it. Well done @joex 
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Well done Joe! 
Enjoy a few celebratory beers 
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Well done joe, the run looked like fun, in an ironman sort of way. 
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Well done Joe
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First of all, thanks guys I didn’t really want to be tracked because I knew it wasn’t going to be great but it’s only fair to be open as ai track everyone 
- it was kinda under the radar but I did confess to the last minute entry.
Long story short is, I’ve had it with my bike and I’m not Iron fit. 
I rolled out of bed put my shit on wandered into the melee at the beach and realised I was lining up with the 70.3 crowd so I ended up at the front of the IM swim. Demoralising, and felt like I was taking it too easy but 1ho7 is my second best IM swim after CH.
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Looks like you guys realised something was wrong way before I did!
3h37 into the bike halfway up the Sintra Hills for the second time I lost my patience and stopped at FBR with a basically “My bikes too slow!” Complaint 
. Lo and behold the rear left brake was rubbing, he didn’t get a half turn out of the wheel. It was working last night so I dont know what happened, you get quite a few hard knocks on the bike course from road “features” on an otherwise smooth course.
So that fucked my bike split. I’ll never know what difference it made, but I was about 30mins behind the BBS plan at 90km. So if I’m generous maybe a sub 6 bike could’ve been on. And a few more km before my run collapsed.
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Half way round the bike I was already like “I cant fucking run off this” I spent a lot of the second half thinking about the shame of a DNF. But that weird thing happened where despite your bike legs being fucked running felt all right.
I didn’t have a plan like last year, or rather I wanted to see what I had. I was a bit surprised when I checked my pace early, but I never checked again. It was simply “shuffle between aid stations, walk for one minute, repeat”. I felt good until 15km after the bastard hill out of the bay, then at 19km my legs just said “you’ve had your lot”.
I am the worst at race day maths, and I was totally surprised at my result. Imagine if I could run?
Thank again everyone, cheered me up reading that. #hugs #bros #etc
Edit: my watch died with 5km to go. Bleeped and said Open Water Swim and loads of zeroes. So I think I’ve lost all the data, except bike which I used my Garmin Edge backup for.
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Annoying about the brake rubbing, would have impacted the run from the extra time on the bike and probably pushing more watts
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I’d be devo’d to find my brake had been rubbing thike that, well done on grinding it out to the finish @joex.
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Fantastic effort Joe and well done keeping on going, brilliant. 
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Congratulations Joe , brilliant effort there!
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Great work on a last min blast out Joe !
Relax now
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Nice one @joex - hopefully you’ve had a nice sleep and are feeling properly happy this morning 
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Nice one @joex
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