Nice work Sid and well done
Well done @SidSnot, you definitely had sub 10 potential, you need to run like me and I need to swim like you… the combination would be a podium 
Your bike numbers look very similar to mine. I may have gone a bit harder at the start and power a bit lower at on second half.
I don’t get the whingers; I had a great time and thought IM did a great job. It is expensive, Ironman is a commercial organisation, they filled the event, and gave most athletes a great experience
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And even better that your family was there to share it with you, chapeau. 
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Top bombing @SidSnot , great to hear you & family had a fab experience.
What was the whinging?
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Well done to @SidSnot and @Matthew_Spooner . It was great fun following you both. Two well executed races, you both should be very happy, which I am sure you are
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Who was the fastest though? Am I going to have to look it up on the tracker 
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Remember the photo I posted of the girl racing Kona on a fat bike?? Well she finished in 13:19 with a bike split of just under 7 hours. Chapeau!
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For some reason, I though flat bar bikes were not allowed at IM?
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I did too, but they mentioned in the article cutting the bars down to width, so I guess they were treated the same as a base bar in the end.
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she had tri bars on the front to comply
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Quite bonkers, but then so is doing an IM in the first place. And I guess if people can do it on a handcycle or towing another person, then why not on a mountain bike with big tyres and cuddly toys hanging off?
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I didn’t know flat bars weren’t allowed. Does that apply to 70.3 as well? I’m sure I remember seeing road bikes with flat bars in halfs?
Whilst its an achievement, surely it makes a bit of a mockery of “The World Champs” or am I alone in that thinking
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She won her age group in the South American champs prior to lockdown.
Deferred championship to 2021.
Got bored of training.
Wanted to do something different.
Did Kona on a fat wheeled bike.
You can “race” it how you want.
Certainly doesn’t make a mockery of it at all, IMHO 
I’d say she made less of a mockery of it than someone who finished 80th in their AG, bottom quintile overall, yet still got a spot and turned up to do Kona, only to finish 7 hours after the age group winner (~85% later 
)
Let’s make it a proper Champs and start cutting the course off at ~15% of each age group winning time.
If you ain’t finishing within that, you’re a DNF 
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Agree about the girl on the mud plugger.
The second suggestion would bankrupt Ironman is 2-3 years.
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or someone who got their Kona slot 'cos it rolled down to 99th in AG. IM need to have cut-offs for rolldown and if not taken by say 15th, then move the slots to another AG.
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What a great idea.
You sure your an official?!
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Yep that as well its a world champs keep it as such , but that wont bring in the dollars
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Fully agree.
Maybe not by position, but only allow it to roll down to ~10-15% of the winning AG time. 
Dunno, would need to do some proper analysis to come up with a good solution.
I just think that for the less than stacked races, then 15th in AG might be slowAF?
Winner in M35-39 did 9:17 at IMUK2021, 15th did 11:25. (This is (one of?) the age group that rolled beyond 80th)
(Mind you, a 15% cut off would’ve meant only Top4 got spots, so those freaky outliers need something doing with them - maybe 15% of 2nd in age group?)
Remember when IM said they’d stop paying women pros if they didn’t finish within X% of the winning time, so nobody would turn up to race Christie or Rinnie
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