I’d be more likely to take the distances as three separate challenges and discover somewhere new. I don’t need a crowd to race but it’d still be hard to motivate yourself for that.
Maybe if 5 or 6 mates did it, that’d be different.
That’s my thinking. Would be good to do something with a few others. A clubmate did his own IM on the day he was meant to do Roth. It would have been his first so I could see the attraction for him but it was a really long day. All on his own. At the moment, I’m leaning more towards focussing on time trialling and a few other bike things, but after failing so spectacularly at IMCH last year, and with Copenhagen being cancelled this year, I’ve definitely got an itch that needs scratching.
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Didn’t take part. Was that a TT1.0 thing? Seem to remember something happening but not the details.
Did it this year, but running and cycling at someone else’s pace, no crowds, portaloos and running out of food completely is over rated for sure…
That said I’d do it again next year in a heartbeat.
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Aah yes, I remember now @Mungo2. I remember thinking at the time what a silly thing it was to do! 
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It was, I’d guess 2008 maybe when I joined in.
Swim at Bosworth Water in south Leicestershire near M42 Twycross Zoo junction. Then for the full IM 6 laps of an anti-clockwise rolling route and then and out and back along the canal which is 200 yards out of the Water Park.
Helps to have camping on site too.
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Cheers @symes. That rings quite a few bells. Good points.
Your right!
But isn’t jumping into a lake, riding round in tight clothes on vastly overpriced carbon machines then running for miles and miles silly… in any of its forms?!
Self supported or not .
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Im pondering it for October 4th. Im not sure how else I can validate my training this year.
Cant say the idea fills me with joy.
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Very true!
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maybe that’s the positive impact of the long ultras i’ve been doing the last few years then, because the idea of a steady self supported IM doesn’t phase me in the slightest.
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Not sure about a self supported IM but a 70.3 would be fun
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Yeah, I agree. I’d be up for a diy 70.3 of some sorts. Full just seems a slog. Even a 100TT self supported is not exactly “fun” (at least for me)
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Yeah I’ve done 70.3 a couple of times this year at home, and I could do the full. I’m just trying to imagine it being fun. I can’t get to race pace for long on the bike in my area so unless I go somewhere else for it, it won’t be comparable to racing. Then there’s the IM run, never a great deal of fun, but I suppose if I ran past my local pub enough I might get some support 
I’m actually in the process of rejoining the Army (Reserves). Pretty much as a result of this year tbh. It will be a new challenge, showing the upstarts that auld fcukers can run about too. Plus I really miss the cameraderie.
Plus l get to do only the ‘fun’ bits, without all the ‘Staff’ (office) roles I had to do in the Regulars.
That’s my new challenge
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Swim wherever, bike out via cudham and toys to Hever, 2 laps of bastion, ride back then 11 laps of scadbury trail 
i take 23m a lap running hard so even 6hrs would be good the bike with just 1 lap at 70miles took me 5hrs and over 2000m climb. Easy 14hrs without the swim
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@joex or why not just enter the Gauntlet 70.3 at Hever at end of September (if places still available)? I’m talking to the Race Director later this morning to go over a few things in advance of the event as I’m Chief TO. going to be interesting seeing how it runs under Covid regs
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Great that you’re involved again, not sure I am man/foolish enough for the Gauntlet after it beat me into submission both races in 2018! 
I am not built for that bike course, and I need a success story for my fragile ego
I am eyeing up loops of the A25 for a self supported though. Swimming Chipstead on Saturday, will take the bike to recce a loop to Tandridge GC then back to Borough Green.
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Seriously I had been weighing up pretty much this exact thing. I do scadbury loops as part of long run, nice place.
If the A25 works out it would be:
Drive to Chipstead with angry mrs, kids and bike
Swim Chipstead lake 07:00
Bike loops of A25 with all my nutrition, then up over Star Hill, hit traffic in Orpington through to Petts Wood
Run 10.5km loops past Sovereign of the Seas, Scadbury (not going in), Tigers Head
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