I understand that IM Cozumel is rather quick - where Tim Don got the fastest ever IM time some years ago, helped no doubt by a 44 minute swim.
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I had 3 mates - & their wives - doing it & screwing up their Strava AI feedback. I’m not sure if they coincide it with the Harvest Moon each year, but that was adding to the tidal whoosh for them.
In the same area there’s the 13km one I did last year.
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Not me but a friend is doing her first Ironman in Portugal today and I’m now totally invested in it 
tried to nag her into cycling more but she’s a tough little git! I did manage to help drag her out for a couple of long rides.
She started showing as DNF and dropped out after 50k of the bike but is clearly still going as she’s just gone through 90k and getting splits 
not sure why it’s flagging her like that though!
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Could it be she’s been pulled for not meeting the cut off but carried on anyway? Someone I knew did that, a few years ago.
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Fairly sure she’s well inside, swim was 1:24 but poet would have a stroke about a 16 minute T1
I’m wondering if she’s missed a timing mat, on her second lap she had 2 times in 1k near the Lisbon turn which weren’t on lap 1, just hope it doesn’t get her a DQ if that’s the case.
Should do about 6:45 for bike, got 28k to go.
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Keep the updates coming… intrigued now. Hope she gets an official finish.
Through 19k on the run in 10:33, run just under 6 minute K’s 
Lectured her and told her how run/walk was legal cheating
Edit: 6k to go, might just sneak under 13 hours
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She’s finished, nail biting 12:59:52!
If she had a TT bike and not wasted so much time in transition she might have got third in her AG
Just hope the time stands and is a mat error 
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Skipped the Battersea park marathon which starts in 30mins. Couldn’t really see a point, despite having no other plans. Too much work on my mind probably.
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Last scheduled race of the year today, a 10k and a pb. It’s been a good year, pb’d at all distances i entered, 5k, 10k, half, 70.3 and IM. Satisfying to get results after putting in the hard yards, although achieving the same next year is going to be a challenge 
I may have a beer tonight, it wont be a fossies 
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Nice one - chapeau!!
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Great stuff
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Sweet success
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Alex Yee with a 61:29 half in Valencia
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Warmup for another mara in December apparently.
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Looks like the European record went in the same race to Swedish fella - 58:41
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As per the injury thread I’ve pretty much accepted I’ll be a DN* next week in Italy but will enjoy the few days away and sunshine. Part of me is tempted to go to the start and have an easy walk\jog until around the first aid station, that part of the route looks really nice and there’s a bailout bus from what I can see at the aid stations.
I could always take a huge backpack and fill it with nutrition from the aid station, those Naak products are quite pricey
Got the Leeds 10K as well, so unless there’s some miraculous recovery I’ll possibly miss that as well as I doubt there’ll be transfers, could go for the day out and jog it but don’t want to set myself back if I’m starting to recover.
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A mad Irish friend (is there ever a sane Irish friend??) at IMDE Frankfurt back in 2006 had a bolloxed knee but said he was going to do the swim, bike into T2 in the city and then DNF rather than risk more knee damage. Of course he didn’t - he went and did the whole bloody thing!
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I had an appt with my back physio this morning. She does a few road races but her partner is on the cusp of sub 3hr marathon.
They are off to San Sebastian marathon soon but she said her partner shouldn’t really be doing it because he has hurt his knees.
I said ‘don’t you advise him?’ and she said ‘yes but he just doesn’t listen’. 
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