Short bke course, need to have words with the organisers!
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Probably better than a PCR test to show you’re OK.
Not many takers for that option though.
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What a great effort… I’d have got pissed !
Who ever he is please pass on my regards, that is awsum.
#IMJ
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No swim so no Kona!
Kudos to him really 
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When you signing up for 2022?
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This.
The amount of foil blankets in the DNF tent said it all 
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The funniest hit is cut off though - underneath Garmin is calling the training load “Unproductive”! 
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That was me to be fair, I cropped it to just the activities.
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I just noticed the Bike-Run category on the tracker.
Looks like 13 men took that option and one still didn’t make it. Only 1 woman, and she’s finished 1st in division 
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@Poet i am really sorry, you are quiet i(sandbagging) n the background, but I’ve been tracking you and thought that were all set for a really special performance today.
Shit happens, move on and enter Lanza 2022
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I don’t think he owns a passport.
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Not. A. Chance. 
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You can’t buy luxury handbags from Paris without a passport.
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You’ll find sympathy in the dictionary between shit and syphilis… you are a great athlete, shit happens, move on.
You are probably better than you got give yourself credit
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Long range forecast is a scorcher !
In other news … one of the local guys swallowed too much flash water…. Puked… so he rode home?!?
Put the kettle on and thought better of it…!
Always drama with this race!
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What, so he then went back and rejoined the race? Pretty cool if so.
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Sounds more like he had his brew and had a few hours on the couch… ?!
He did get up early after all?!
His trainers could still be in a bag somewhere ?!
I’ll find it … if he didn’t feel right … fair play to him.
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Does he have a red Huub suit and Giro Aerohead helmet?
If so, I was chatting at him for a bit - told him to buy my crappy bike, then we could match 
I think I saw him finish (well, a M35-39 in a red huub DS suit), he was ecstatic.
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Well done @SidSnot and @Toyota_Crown. Still loving the shorts.
Absolutely gutted for you @Poet. That’s horrible bad luck. Onwards and upwards. You’re in great form, so hope you can find another event where you can crush those grapes, good and proper.
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The shorts - the legend was proper chipper when I saw him in T2 and very nearly convinced me to head out for a lap and then see how I felt
(I’d already been told this was okay, I’d just get pulled before the finish chute and not get a medal or t-shirt)
But, he wouldn’t tell me if they were new or the same ones. Nor his “supplier” 
THE PRO’S
okay, no age groupers lapped me on the bike - unless they did so whilst I was attempting to fix my bike.
But the pro’s 
They came past like rocket ships.
Sam Laidlow was SO FAR ahead on the bike, I thought he had it all sewn up, so I wonder what happens to him?
The French guy just looked super controlled as he passed me on the golf club climb.
Tim Don passed me on Winchester Way (council estate) climb out of Bolton, but I managed to catch back up with him and offer him some encouragement as he lapped me.
Skipper came past and he looked fine, just miles back.
Eliot Smales came past, also on a climb, and when I realised it was him, I gave him a time check to Tim Don and got a thumbs up 
Didn’t see any of the other pro’s.
I saw 1st, 2nd and 3rd on their first lap of the run course, whilst the rain was biblical.
Tim Don was soaked to the core and had his Trisuit unzipped.
All I was thinking at this point was “thank the lord I decided to put a change of kit for the run into my bag, I’ll be nice and dry now”
Lesson learned at Helvellyn there 
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