Same as me at Staffs!
Just run and ride into it.
And enjoy it.
Finish with a smile.
No other way to approach it 
Get a few centuries in around your way - do a little bit of running, but if you don’t care, don’t.
Just walk/jog round and soak it all up.
Really, so long as you’re smiling and enjoyed it, who gives a hoot?
It’ll be good!
The Power Of The Crowd will get you round. And Tailwind
The crowds are immense but they don’t help you run up that long-ass hill multiple times!
But they do offer you beer through the town 
And I shall accept.
I’m recovering from a heel injury but still hope to be there. 50/50 Cotswolds start line. I hope I ll be ok. Very frustrating as rest of me is fine
Fuck that run - it’s boring and up. I hate that little filter left to get the wrist band
Glow sticks are nice. First time was 2017. Remember jogging past a girl shivering and in tears with a foil thing over her shoulders. That was a messy year. Everyone looked shell shocked in the finishers tent
I did 2015 after not being able to swim or run most of the year and actually enjoyed it, prob coz the conditions were ok and I had no expectations.
I sliced my foot to the bone that year getting out of the water at Slateman (so cold I didn’t realise till the run!) had to let it open-heal and it took months.
So was prob in a similar spot to now.
Eek 
An Achilles injury for me - simply can’t run for very long regardless: PITA
Wales run is like 4 big hill reps & imo the best thing to have in your arsenal is to be able to let your legs go free & recover on the descents, so if your cramming I’d work on that.
IIRC Lucy Gossage described the run as 2 miles uphill, 2 miles downhill and 2 miles undulating x4 ………
Running downhill becomes pretty painful if your legs are not up to it!
It’s pretty much exactly that. Shame there are zero hills round me since I moved house.
The only downside of living in Cheshire rather than Whitefield. That and the commute to work!
My training is slow to get moving. It is just tough to motivate for the long stuff. I have finished twice before but this year the aim is to have fun. Will be on my road bike and plan is to hit every single
Power-Up sign on the run. I will finish. I will finish.
I no longer have a TT bike so roadie with clip-ons
Enjoy the day.
Same for me, in terms of something I entered a number of years ago at a time when I thought I’d be able to execute it well. Just want to finish now.
Swim is terrible, but hoping I can get into 1:10ish type shape (previous full distance swims of 1:01 and 1:03).
TT bike hasn’t even been unpacked since Mallorca last October. Need to get it out once home and start riding it again at weekends. Did do Ride London and have a couple of 120+ km club rides in the legs recently. Also planning a Swiss alps trip with friends about 3 weeks before, so that should get me round.
But it will then be a walk. I’ve had an on-off achilles niggle since about 6 weeks prior to Mallorca. It seemed to settle in the new year, and I trained OK-ish up to about 3wks out from Boston. Then it reared its head again. Since that mara, I’ve been in pieces. Tried resting it, some exercises, and then slowly easing back into it 
I did 8k the other week and it was so sore after it woke me up in the night. I’m not going to run now at all until I finally see a physio. I’m probably doing long term damage with my DIY treatment approach.
Might spend some time on the cross trainer to keep the legs sort of working, but I’m resigned to a 7hr walk. I’ve done a 25mile Cross Country orienteering hike in the scouts when I was a kid and did that in 7ish hours, so reckon I can still finish. Even a poor swim and bike should give me way more than that before the cut off comes into play.
Not exactly what I had planned, but might as well be able to say I’ve done it after all this time with it on the schedule
Yeah 2017 would be enough to swear you off IM Wales for life!
When I went back to do better in 2018, I mentally marked specific ‘walk here, run here’ repeat and stick to it (I did for 3 laps).
From memory:
I started walking at the start of the big hill at the bottom at a specific lamp post then run again at that first semi flat bit (IIRC by the nursing home) run the next section to the bit where the road splits (the dog leg to get your bands on the other side of the course).
Then walk the hill up to the top turnaround by the big floodlight, run back down to the hard left to get your band, walk up that little slope then run to the actual band pick up, walk back up the slope to the houses.
Then run all the way back into the road that faces the swim start and walk that final little slope by the car park and turnaround, then run into town and run all the in town parts.
It worked, mostly 
I think I’ll be in 1:10 swim shape, tickle round the bike and try to catch you at the start of my run when you are prob on your 2nd lap for a chat
My result from 2016 when I couldn’t run or swim all summer due to the sliced foot
I would be absolutely buzzing to get near this again. Not sure the fact I’ll be on a road bike will make too much difference in time to the TT bike then, given I’m not that fast and prob spent less than 50% in position.
Spent a few mins in T2 getting painkillers. Also got cramp getting off the bike, fell and smashed my knee up 
Probably the best thing about that day was my mate who I travelled and stayed with swam the same time. We didn’t realise on the first lap but then got out next to eachother, had a giggle about it then swam next to eachother the whole 2nd lap, ran to T1 together then he went off on the bike on the first hill and I never saw him again
With the dust settling on Bolton now my attention is all on Tenby now.
How many TriTalkers are in for this?
9 weeks or so to go
