Thanks! The finishers area wasn’t anything special in my opinion, they gave us plant based burgers and I don’t recall seeing anybody finish one 
I used Nirvana for bike transport. Bike is now back in the UK and I’m collecting it this evening - it was a good service 
Finally round to starting my report, sat in a deck chair on the harbour waiting to get metro to airport, now finished it at home.
I did the race in 2017 and a month before damaged my achilles a bit so didnt run until the race. Swim and bike were good but the run was a long shuffle. This year has been not the best and essentially due to covid, 3 years between races not good for me. I manged to lose half the weight I’d put on but longest run before the race was 10 miles (sorry old money) at a very comfortable pace so knew the run would go bad at some point. This race was really to see if i still had the buzz for it as i am nowhere near the pointy end so its just for fun.
Copenhagen is a great city to do an IM. So easy to get the train or metro from the airport. First time we stayed in an apartment on the outskirts of the city and whilst it was fine getting the metro to wherever, this year being in the centre of the city was really good for seeing things (although a bit noisy Saturday night with the pride partying).
So Sunday morning, got up at 4:30 had my porridge, almost forgot to do my drinks bottles, panic attack I couldn’t find my wetsuit, which was in the bag I had put it in then off for the metro. Last time you didn’t need to pay for the metro if you were dioing the IM but this has now stopped, but not expensive. Walk to transition, set up bike (people always panic about a track pump but every IM I’ve done there are always plenty of pumps around) and visit portaloo (a load off my mind after that). I seeded myself in 1hr 10min wave and then we were off for the 1 lap swim. I’ve always enjoyed the IM swim and this was fine again, I probably should try a bit harder and not enjoy it as much. The first turnaround it was a bit conjested and a bit of biff, but nothing bad and at that end the seaweed (like swimming in lettuce leaf soup) was quite bad but rest was fine and I got out of the water in 1:08:49 (a minute quicker than 5 years ago). Standard 7:39 T1 (I don’t rush, dry my feet etc) quick wee and off on the bike having waved goodbye to my supporters, who I wouldn’t see again until end of the bike.
I ride a road bike with clip ons and used a torpedo bottle for first time which I found really good to keep drinking whilst riding. I had only done one 100 miler this year and finished the bike in 6:00:08 which was 6 minutes slower than 5 years ago, so was happy enough with that. There is a hill, not as packed as Roth Solarer Berg or Wales Heartbreak Hill or as steep/long but some great support to give you a bit of a boost, which I like.
I hadn’t seen much drafting but on the second lap a group of about 6 or 7 went past and a few minutes later I saw the aftermath of a crash between 2 of them on a corner, so I stopped (there were about 4 others stopped), one had some nasty road rash but was able to stand up but the other remained lying down and said his ribs hurt although was holding his shoulder. One rider headed off for the marshalls and after a few minutes where the situation seemed ‘stable’ me and another said we were heading off. A few hubdred meters up the raod there were two marshalls running down and then a motobike marshall so I was happy everything was under control. So my time would have been a few minutes quicker but glad I stopped and whilst quite a few people did pass without stopping there was a few of us at the scene so fair enough.
T2 uneventful (7:14), aniother quick wee and off on the dreaded run. I think it is a great run course, a few cobbled bits, kerbs not to trip over, little undulations and some narrow sections but there is a lot of great support over most of the run. I knew it would go really bad at some point and I made it to the end of the third lap when it happened which became a real IM shuffle. Finished the run in 5:17:35 which was 12 minutes quicker than 5 years ago when I had an achilles problem, so I am actually happy with that run time and my overall 12:41:24 time (my second fasted IM time out of 7). I would love to go sub-12 (fastest time is 12:12 at Outlaw 7 years ago) and even though I’m 55 now if I can get my run comfortable it should be possible on a flat course.
Copenhagen is a fantastic city and is more expensive than home but not rediculous, especially if you are sensible. Transportation is brilliant and everyone is friendly and speaks English. I wouldn’t think twice about doing this one again, possibly for a pb attempt and would recommend it to anyone (it is a shorter cut off of 15:45 like Barcelona due to it being a fast course).
I bit of a cock-up by IM was that the tee-shirts you buy with the IM logo on missed off all the first surnames upto G, so my name wasn’t on. I wasn’t really bothered but for a first-timer this was really poor. Aparently they have been re-done and up for sale on-line which I think they ware waivering the 50 Euro postage !
Due to the deferals this had become a make or break IM race for me, was I still going to enjoy it and carry on or ‘retire’, well because I did enjoy the day, I’m now looking at what race to do next year 
I would say the finish area is pretty typical from what I’ve experienced. I only managed a bite of my plant based burger then went to McD’s for a bland meat based burger, which was lovely.
Nice one @JD-Scarabtri Great to hear that the fire is still there and that you’re motivated for another one next year 
It does look amazing. Just the shorter cutoff freaks me out. I might need those extra 50mins on the bike you get elsewhere if I have a puncture and need an hour to change it 
Seems like a bunch of people who used Pedal pick-up had damage to their bikes on the way to and from Copenhagen and the company has now gone into adminstration, not good.
Looking at this for 2023
Any suggestions for accommodation location as split start & finish ,also is it worth staying an extra day for touristy things
Because there has been 3 and then 6 of us we’ve had apartments via booking,com (both third floor which was fun carrying bike up after the race). The first one was in the city but a bit out whereas this years was right in the centre (so a bit more expensive) but really handy for everything. I wouldn’t want to stay near the swim start as there’s not much there and it is really easy getting the metro on race morning (with all the other competitors). It has been pride weekend both times so the city was quite busy and a bit noisy on the Saturday evening/night.
As far as it being noisy, it probably didn’t help that this year the night before the race coincided with a pride event.
The metro is good enough to make pretty much anywhere ok to stay, runs 24 hours a day.
We didn’t do much touristy apart from walk up to the mermaid taking a viewing route both ways two days before the race which was pretty daft really. As with other race sites we’ll be going back to do it properly without the race getting in the way one weekend.
thanks JD & Symes will check if pride weekend again and maybe split between start and finish
thought about an apartment
Not completely the right thread but has anyone done the Elsinore 70.3? What is public transport like to Elsinore early on a Sunday morning?
Thinking of doing this but would stay in Copenhagen probably and just look to commute to Helsingor. Could easily drop the bike off on Saturday by riding there. Not sure about riding home after the race as I’d have the wetsuit etc.
Have a feeling @Matthew_Spooner and @stenard have done it
Might have helped if I’d searched for Elsinore!
I stayed in the town. I’m pretty sure Matt stayed out and travelled in on race morning on the train, altho can’t recall if he was all the way down in Copenhagen. He did it the same year as me so we did meet up.
It was quite good staying in the town. I took my mum and we got the short ferry over to Sweden the following day for a look about Helsingborg.
I stayed in central Copenhagen, really easy train journey on race morning. If I did this event again I would stay in Copenhagen again.
My Airbnb was 200m from train station that went direct to Helsingore, think it was 30-40mins by train. I caught train just after 5am
By best ever 70.3 performance, there is a race report somewhere. The only downside is the drafting on the bike, but that’s going to happen on any fast and flat race
Thanks both, I’ve found the race thread so will read that later.