“A student who only learnt to swim in October is through to the Ironman World Championships.”
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She finished the race and went to the roll down with her credit card.
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“A student whose wealthy parents paid for her to go to a race that anyone can pay to go to now”
FTFY
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If you remove the IMWC bit, the rest of the story is girl recovers from eating disorder and gets fit and healthy. That’s a good news story.
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you didn’t expect me to actually have read the story before making disparaging comments
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Is swapping an eating disorder for IM training good progression? 
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Splits were 1:59 / 7:38 / 5:29
Finished top 10 in her age group (7th out of 7). That must be hard swimming for two hours and then having to try and catch up with nutrition on the bike.
Gotta be in it to win it I guess!
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It probably doesn’t help if your bike seat falls off 130km into the bike, causing you to crash 
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81 female finishers, 65 Kona slots
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Running (walking?) a marathon in Nike METCONs 
Possibly the WORST shoes to run in.
Edit. Pics says thats her training so maybe not.
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Really?
This was IM Austria, right? Isn’t that a 2,500 - 3,000 participant race?
Was there really fewer than 100 female finishers?
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she’s heading to work where I just left. She’s going to love working for that American conglomerate and all its “be the best person you can be” attitude
not Blackpool.
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She won’t finish Hawaii off that…
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It will be a very expensive swim with that time in a calm clear lake wearing a cheatsuit. There’s a lot of work to do , hopefully lots in an ocean without a wetsuit.
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not impossible to achieve…a pretty much non swimmer swam the channel in 3 years of training…IM in two…albeit in a wetsuit…and i should add that he worked his socks off…
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On the plus side she’ll be nice easy shark bait and the rest of the field can breathe easily 
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if she can get her swim down to 2:21 then she’ll get on the highlights programme…
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Lady who “qualified” from our club went 1:23:02, 8:35:21, 5:07:10 18/23 in AG
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in her qualifier or in Hawaii?