Almost no crowd! There were loads there in 2017; not that it made running around the lake any less sh!t!
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Are you sleeping?!
That’s because they were probably all out on the bike course due to my epic finishing time 
Seriously though, the support at the transition 
on the other side and underneath the scoreboard was brilliant.
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Whatever; I’m still never doing it again 
Dreaming of a Big Mac and a cold beer…
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What it looks like when you tick that box…
Seriously though, I have some awful ones somewhere from other races. Getting caught walking in a standalone marathon (from pretty early on) is always rather sobering
The marathons on those two races were c1 minute different!
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Is that the Joe Skipper Endura kit?
In hindsight, doing IM Austria 20 weeks after fracturing my neck and skull was always going to result in a pic like this, one ‘town’ lap to go…
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Haha, ace!
You don’t look so happy?!
I’ll try and find my 35:01 10km and 5:00.1 mile photos 
I almost felt sorry for the announcer who was trying to be positive and happy and excited. I wanted the ground to swallow me up. The bad days make the good days good…
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Hmm 
. Think I ran 3:22 IMUK 2019, with 1/2M PB of 83 (9 months earlier off less training) , and likely times of 10k ~36 and 5k ~17 (none formally tested). I ran ~30-35km/week for the last 12 weeks so not overly endurance based either. I’d say @jaylen84 times are a larger than average drop off. @Poet you could run 3:22 based on your times.
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I’ve never ran 3:22 in my life (after a bike ride)
I ran a 3:22:xx at Outlaw 2019, after a 4km swim, 2 hours of shivering in the pouring rain, then a super awesome run with @pacha and @Adam in the pouring rain.
Not sure I’d be able to run that quick off the bike - I lack the mental fortitude required 
Your 10km and 5km times are much better than mine, in relation to a HM, for 2019 ( 1:20:41, 36:34, 17:58 )
Those 200W on the bike that @jaylen84 did now scare me!
My recce was easy, with winter gear, at 185W average (230W NP), 134bpm (low for me) and that only produced 25kmh.
I don’t think I’d want to cycle much harder than that?
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Don’t sell yourself short. That was a grim marathon to get through
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I was complete rough guessing those 10k and 5k times based on what I’m doing now, more likely they’d be identical to what you’ve just posted. Just looked back and my 5k pb is 17:37.
All my winter recces were around 27-27.5kph, and raced it at 28.6 on race day due to no traffic lights and taper (and small element of getting sucked into seeing not many people disappearing up the road). Same conditions each time, my road bike with clip ons, same wheels etc.
Sounds like you have a lot more to add with extra race kit will see you up into the 28s-29s, plus another 3.5 months training.
And flatten out that NP-AP perhaps?
EDIT: Feel free to transfer this into the IMUK/any other thread especially if it gets specific, but this is half relevant given one of the biggest things stopping most KQ attempts is not being able to maintain what should be an easy (4:45-5:00) pace on the run. That’s what the whole day is about.
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