He’s had lower limb issues going into this race.
Think that something may have happened to Dave. He was looking so strong today
He was 3rd going through 6.9km but then not on any later splits, 
nothing serious.
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Less than 10km to go, @Mr-me looking good for a sub 9. he’s still running at a great pace and has 5min in hand
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@Mr-me has 25mins left to run 5k - using the immortal IMJ expression “you’ve got this”
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Nailbiting this!
8 mins left 1.6k… going to be tight
Watchin the pro’s the tracker distance was slighly wrong, which is why it looked like KB was on for a sub 2:30
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KB also needed the toilet and I’m guessing not a #1 
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11 minutes though so hopefully done it
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Boom 
take a bow Mr ME 
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8:57!
Imagine if he starts training with Chris 
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amazing @Mr-me
somewhat daunting that 8:57 “only” gets 5th in AG. Must have been a class field
I am doing Cascais on 19 October, following you today has been a real inspiration.
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outstanding 
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That’s incredible @Mr-me
Looking forward to the race report!
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Did Dave the dentist ? ( chicken boy ?)
Finish?
More importantly
Is he ok?
No he didn’t, I’ve just text him
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Says loads of bike problems, a spill and a mechanical.
On Strava
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@Mr-me insane! Congrats! 
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Thanks all for following along today much appreciated. Had great fun reading it back while was gathering myself and eating low quality pizza in the recovery area.
Needles to say this was my day of days. A friend of mine who had previously gone sub 8 commented that I’d need everything to go perfectly and that’s what I got.
Sub 9 required me to have my fastest ever swim fastest ever bike and fastest ever run which feels good to tick off at age 47.
All it took was 12 years of training and 16 Ironmans to nail it. 
I’ll do a longer write up at some point it wanted to post something before I fell unconscious.
Oh and @Matthew_Spooner i’d entered Barcelona as a back up for a sub 9 attempt if today didn’t go my way and to try to qualify for Nice next year (Copenhagen was a Kona qualifier and no way am I tempted to go back there). Quite fancy rounding out my Ironman career in Nice… anyway now the sub 9 is done I’m giving serious thought to transferring to Cascais so might see you there.
And as a final point the depth of field today was insane. Last year my 9.01 got me 4th in my ag and 39th overall. This year 8.57 got me 5th in ag and 75th overall - mental
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@Mr-me, you had an Amazing day, well done, it was fun following you. I would love to see you in Cascais. My plan is qualify for Nice and retire from Ironman.
I am carrying a load of fitness from TCR, so it has to be this year. Emilia Romana or Barcelona could have been sub 9 courses, however I think that Cascais would suit me much better
I would love to go sub 9, but really can’t see it happening. So Nice retirement is my plan A.
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