the training is hard…and brutal at times…but it is more a psychological challenge than physical (it surpasses the physical ability of most people, not in any individual session, but the accumulation of the fatigue and injury)…plus you know, within reason, that it would end…
…but operations are can be extreme mentally and physically with no end in sight…
Just found out Mr Green was at it again last year. Norris McWhirter will be turning in his grave seeing this
He’s a bit of a shyster iirc? That’s not even a Double Ironman; so could be immediately challenged surely.
I seem to remember his ‘coach’ being a Shaun Ryder lookalike 
no distances stipulated? so you could swim 100m, bike 350km and run 100m
Why even do it in that order.
Run to your bike, cycle a fooking long way, have a dip in a lake to cool off at the end. Job jobbed