There’s a process outlined on the IM France website that you need to follow - 2nd paragraph
All athletes competing in France, without exception, are required to hold a French triathlon license or a competition pass:
If you hold a French Triathlon Federation (FFTRI) license: Upload a copy of your 2025 competition license to Dokeop.
If you hold a license from an affiliated country(Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Netherlands): Get a free competition pass from FFTRI by clicking here(distance: XXL) and then enter your pass number on Dokeop. To receive the free pass, be sure to provide your ITU license number and federation when purchasing the pass.
If you hold another license or are unlicensed: Purchase an FFTRI competition pass by clicking here(distance: XXL) and enter your pass number on Dokeop.
All participants must upload one of the following documents to Dokeop before:
We were looking forward to doing the 33km Jurassic Extinction hike on June 22nd but I just don’t think it’s worth me risking putting myself deeper in the hole. I also want to be strong enough for Chamonix.
feel bad for LO as she wanted to do it but she’s taken it like a trooper.
Did a local fell race last night, 11K but TBH about 5k is on road. Was crap, didn’t feel great at the start and only just improved as it went on. Pretty much the end!
But, about halfway round I thought, I’m running on the hills on a slightly chilly summers evening so it’s not all bad.
Until I got diverted through the town along with all the HGV’s because they’d closed the main road
With a couple of months until Tallinn I am now in the vivid ironman related dreams phase - last night the organisers switched the order of events to do the run first, then the swim, and I couldn’t find my trainers.
I don’t feel ready, but do you ever if it’s your first full? Nursing a hip issue which has cost me 6 weeks of running but then I’m not going to be running the run am I, I’m going to be shuffling/walking for the best part of 6 hours.
I think I’d be tempted to try something like run 1k/walk 1k from the start and see how you feel? If you can slowly run half of it then you might get around 5 hours or under?
Yeah that’s a good idea actually, thanks for the advice - no idea how it will go on the day, hoping it all just clicks into place magically haha
I’d be thrilled with anything sub 5hr 30 to be honest. My normal marathon time is only 4hr 10 - so an hour on top of that feels not an unreasonable target?
Are you using legs/body enough? That seems a huge difference?! That’s about double my bench pb.
I tried to do some form of overhead press twice a week (I gym properly ~once a week/every 10 days), so often it might just be a 5-10 minute bolt on to a run with bands at home.
Some heavy days eg building up to 4x5 rep 20kg (shoulder press, not push press) mixed with some lighter higher rep and push press days, although often did both once I realised it was my big weakness, and combined with clean and press etc in same session.
I googled a bit and thought it was triceps that were limiting me, so did some pulldowns too.
But I do agree they were my worst station, and they come at the start of a lot of overhead work in subsequent stations. I was amazed that everyone at the pointy end of results took ~60s out of me on that station by doing them continuous or with one break.
The 4x5 rep 20kg DB was strict standing (or sitting) shoulder press, no legs.
Am I right in thinking you’re particularly tall? Don’t know how much harder (if at all?!) that makes overhead work if long arms if you think you’re disproportionately weak overhead?
