He’s a nice guy (for a pirate) , wrote two books but second was one too many and repetitive. Him and Conehead were the two original Ironman book writers before everyone started doing it.
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Honestly, I know what you mean.
i struggle with zero to hero stories. Genuinely.
you let yourself get into a state, then did something very hard non-competitively.
I’d rather our stories where you know, we don’t swim train. Or @gingerbongo runs a 100k with 2 weeks training.
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I honestly grappled with writing how I did an Ironman overnight, 32 laps around a grotty trading estate having run 10k about 3 times since Jan, 8 months, swimming very little and riding my bike for 15minutes fast in circles but thought nah everyone would start doing it and 15hrs training is what gets you a 16.59 finish 
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I nearly signed up to the pirates when i found them, but I’d been on TriTalk for a while and you know. The pirate kit was good though.
Was a good time, could turn up to any race and see the yellow and blue kits everywhere.
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Probably better as a collection of short stories, one per TriTalk member.
I’d need some kind of waffling page limit imposed. Poet would only need one page, or maybe three sentences, but some kind of limit on the use of capitals.
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I was with them from the start on the 1st organised trip to IMCH in 2005 and raced last in pirate kit at IM Wales in 2011. It was fun to start with, then it started to become a group of “wannabees” ‘cos of the very distinctive kit with all sorts of branded shite (caps. buffs, umbrellas etc) at which point I’d decided it had lost it’s original ethos and I jacked them.
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Mine would be as follows.
Impressive group of members, from all walks of life. Very good collection of humble athletes, and we’ve got a bit of silverware between us.
Also some odd people, which adds to it. As middle class as it gets. Lots of mentions of expensive bikes and Waitrose.
Awful collective dress sense. Also members keep Rapha in business.
Awful problem with feet pictures. Only downside.
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A group of almost never was’ and culdabins , one or two might even do those triathalon things. If you need advice on what’s good on tele or how not to do DIY a valuable resource
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They should always be taken topside
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Not sure which is worst, the big toe with the manky haematoma under the nail, or the ET-style knobbliness of the second one.
Perhaps our panel of resident experts could adjudicate @APM @GRamsay ?
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Get in the bin.
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no…
just no…
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i would just drop a heavy weight on it and be done with it…
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No idea why the nail went black - it’s actually an internal bleed in the ball of my foot caused by running on Sunday. Fortunately the German hospital I visited today treated without any use of heavy weights or gravity 
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i got frostbite on mine years ago and they look a lot worse than that…
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