So why didn’t you then?
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What’s it say on the back. “Prone to buying £92 candles and serving up pot noddle as a sufficient dinner”
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That’s dark red 
I’m allergic to people fxxxing around before transition and spouting their pre-race nerves at you.
“I’ve heard there are sharks in this lake…I’ve not trained much for this…there be pirates on the bike course…the run course has a log which is like the steeplechase…”
Oh do four cough, will ya?
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freshwater, I think we established it is a 400lb freshwater stingray
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I’d be wary of the catfish sucking your 17 Dorset toes if I were you!
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I’m with you there though. Normally I’m a pretty laid back, sociable chap. But before a race I get a bit introspective.
I’m fine mucking about with people I know, but otherwise I just like to sit in my own little bubble and ‘do me’.
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Everyone invade GBs bubble pre race!!!
I’ll be sure to be ahead of Poet for transition with my helmet in its bag.
Anyone else 
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I’ll still be in your van, having a 
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Who was it on TT1.0 that would be all over that?
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Ha ha ha
Malcolm - he’s still like that on Facebook
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Targetted for termination?
Metero?
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Says the guy wandering around transition 30 mins before the start, trying to get batteries off people.
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Now carry a 5mm Allen key and pack of AAA batteries in my race bag 
#LessonLearned
Also make sure my saddle bag and BTA are properly fastened, too, after I lost both of them and had to stop to pick them up.
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I always used to change my P2Max battery a couple of weeks before an Ironman. Never actually got a battery warning on one; they lasted forever (allegedly 400h)
I’m not sure the 2020’s triathlon crowd is ready for the TT massive at a race. oh to be a casual observer.
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I’m going full Dafydd.
Searching eBay for a crop top now.
Mohican and non-ironic hick ‘tache, too.
This looks good.
Shame there’s no matching trunks.
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Get some smugglers
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That is not how you spell ‘budgie’ 
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I had to re-acquaint myself with this race from 2019 - must have been one of the last triathlons I’ve completed, maybe I did another one (Outlaw?) later in the year, haven’t done a triathlon since lockdown 1.0. Remembering I punctured fairly early on the 2nd lap, nursed the bike around on a flat tub in 3hr45ish and managed to finish a few minutes on the right side of 6 hours!! Will be on tubs again, might take a spare round with me this time (or at least get the tubs pumped up to the correct pressure to reduce the flat risk) and will be targeting a time as close to 5 hours as possible (5hr 15 might be realistic).
ETA: Outlaw was 2018. Maybe this was my last triathlon. Thinking about it now.
ETA2: yep this was my last triathlon. Since then 1 HM; 2 duathlons and 59 parkruns. Must hunt down my swim goggles!!
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Were you being serious about a good post brick day swim sess? Only slot I could get was 9pm so off there now. Was thinking more of 1500 easy pull with a bit of gentle floating.
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