There has to be some serious health implications with this though.
Watching his 50 in 50 documentary was bad enough
His inner circle/band of followers must be as nuts as he is
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Heās the David Koresh of Triathlon.
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Had to google him 
Heās into 18 hour territory leaving less than 6 hours to sleep. I donāt see how he can go on much longer, that recovery just isnāt enough to allow him to build into it.
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Perhaps an unfair example! I guess you were too young to remember it on the news at the time. thereās a film about it, I must watch it. All very sad.
Iām currently deciding which format of the deca to do next year. Not sure if I will have a crew as last time I did any really long tri events we didnāt have kids and my wife could keep an eye on me and not 3 little ones. Iāve been doing long ultra all unsupported since. Iāll plan on doing it without a support crew but may be able to persuade some people from the tri club to come along and help for a few days.
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Did you do the Quin unsupported? Seems like it would make the task considerably harder, a lot of wasted time potentially waiting for food to cook etc, although I suppose pasta doesnt take long its still 15 minutes wasted faff when you could be asleep or moving forwards? Pot noodles for 10 days it is 
No, I had my wife and for all days and one other friend for a couple of days. It will make it a lot harder but mostly all I need is someone to make sure my kit is dried for the following day. Generally, I grab whatever hot food was provided and yes, eat a lot of pot noodles. The toughest part unsupported is not having anyone to whinge to when it is all going wrong.
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Thatās what amazed me about Mark Beaumontās 80 Day WR attempt. He had a very well financed crew with multiple vehicles, so I assumed they were all getting paid but they didnāt have the luxury of being able to wander off. They were all in two campervans, all the time, in fact, in terms of peace and quiet, MB was probably better off on the bike.
It must be a testament to how they get on because I would have shot somebody by the end!
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The reality is that when you are doing it at such a low level of intensity you can eat any old shit day after day, as long as you eat lots of it. Stuff like running across America etc. they just eat McD, BK, Eat-all-you-can buffets, Ginsters pasties etc.
Jesus Christ.
The winner of some long distance race was sponsored by Ginsters but couldnāt take a promotional bite of a pasty on the finish line as he was allergic to the gluten. Anyone remember the details of that one?
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Bob Brown was the Ginsters-sponsored ultra runner. I never heard anything suggesting that he was allergic to them, although for logistics reasons I wasnāt entirely convinced that he actually consumed that many during his races.
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Americans probably think a Ginsters is a delicacy. WRONG.
Reminds me of the Brevet Cymru where I took along a pork pie to eat on the go; it was way more peppery than I anticipated, and I starting choking on itā¦chunks coming out of my nose.
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that rings a bellā¦
a regular in our haverbagsā¦eaten hundreds of themā¦no wonder I am gluten intolerant nowā¦ 
Haverbag; not heard that in ages! Showing your age 
I used it the other day to an RM mate, and he said āuh, you mean a Bag-rat?!ā. Navy freaks.
Canāt beat a range stew from a Norgie.
absolutelyā¦
Kinda forgot there was a lunatic yank still doing this. 22 days inā¦
S 1:26
B 6:54
R 7:57
Total 17:50
Utter madness
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Oh yeah! 
Wow, nearly 18h. A few of those and heās not going to get any sleep > buffers ahead.