Never doing Frankfurt again! I would be tempted to do Austria a third time tbh, and it would probably be my top recommendation for someone looking to do one abroad, esp with family.
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Front pack swim, smoke the bike, walk or DNF the run.
I sat next to his Dad on the flight back from Klagenfurt in 2013; sounds like neither of them really ‘got it’ on how to execute a decent race without a meltdown. That IMUK win came so early, I think it skewed how they viewed it. In that race, PG DNF’d about halfway on the run; his neo Pro mate he was travelling with also did the same.
ETA - that was my second best IM. Finished off with a nice 3:34 run and didn’t walk a single step.
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What’s he doing these days?
Still living with his parents? 
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Sorry it didn’t work out for you @funkster, seems like you did everything well enough with fuelling and limiting power 70% FTP on the bike not to have any major issue like you experienced. I can only think you had some bug or illness too minor for you to notice until under the kosh.
I don’t think you mentioned how you were taking salt, I assume you were in addition to the Gatorade?
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The energy drink powder has electrolytes and I stuck in a 1500 Precision hydration as well 
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Definitely think you’d have been near that on a good day. I think it might have rolled further this year, would be interesting to see.
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Funkster sorry it didn’t go to plan esp after the wait. Hope you figure out what wasn’t quite right and go again ?
I was paying a bit more attention to the 50-54 AG….for some reason 
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Another one moving up 
M50 is getting stacked again.
Top 10 all went sub 10, and 5th was 9:38!
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I was more interested in 7th-10th
7 slots yesterday for 50-54.
Don’t know the roll down.
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I wondered how many slots in there. Probably why it’s a popular race.
Sub 10 would have just sneaked 10th place.
I did 10:10 but was a bit younger then and the bike is 2k longer. I’d be lucky to get anywhere close these days!
35-39 age group rolled to 19th around 9:20
I started feeling a bit throaty in the night after the race and a bit more yesterday afternoon but put it down to just the effects of the race then got the chills last night.
Then this when I arrived home:
Time to rest up now and get better for hoping the rolling stones next Saturday in Hyde park
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Ridiculous 
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It’s one of the reasons I target that race.
Regional champs has more slots.
Flat run.
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South Africa is the same.
Pretty flat bike and Flat run. More of a challenge logistically though and pricy flights.
Did I miss a trick by going before the roll down.
I was 104th…
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I didn’t go I was busy eating wurst and ice cream my mate told me who went but turned down a slot
Maastricht is still on tier 2 entries with 40 slots, pan flat run as well.
On so many levels. That it rolled to 19 and that 19th was 9:20…
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