Oooo. I’m doing Copenhagen in a couple of weeks. Getting excited and nervous. I’ll let you know what it’s like, but heard nothing but good things.
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Fair enough. I guess everyone’s situation and perspective is different. Ultimately, I can’t really talk as I don’t yet have children. Maybe I’m largely swayed by the friends in London that I see more regularly that are married with children, and how they approach things. I do have other friends elsewhere in the country who are less inclined to take any time away from family, but I’m not so exposed to them on a regular basis so maybe give them less weighting in my mind about how the general population approaches stuff.
My approach since having kids has been to get it done whilst they’re asleep.
It’s a hell of lot easier at 70.3 though
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That’s the case, no matter your life circumstances!
Haha, very true!!
Too true!!!
@Adam - If I get up at 6am to do something, I tend to find someone wakes up and then that’s the session out of the window 
@stenard - Airports stress me out at the best of times. So I’d really need the extra days to relax.
And yes, I work away from home.
My holiday “me time” is null.
all but two days of annual leave are accounted for come January 4th. Those are two “emergency” days for any unforeseen weddings/bar mitzvah’s/funerals.
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Yeah I’ve been finding that recently. I’m properly on tip toes until I get out of the door
We’re all different I guess. My gf and I are aligned on the fact that if children happen, we would always still need to be able to do our own thing every now and then, and would support each other in having time away with friends and the like. That is again maybe shaping my view, as that is the future reality I am faced with.
But as I think Jorgan has made reference to before in other threads, I think maybe some of us are blessed with next to zero work travel, which obviously means the weekends are less precious. If I do 5 work trips abroad in a year, that’s a very busy one, and most of those would be day trips to western Europe for a meeting. Outside of that, I get the tube or run/cycle to work each day, and am able to see her each morning/evening. We’re also aligned on both of us wanting the future to be within z3 London (I’m currently z2), so that commuting lifestyle will likely never change. If I wasn’t seeing gf (/wife/kids) all through the week, then I totally get why weekends, and annual leave especially, become so valued.
that’s what she says now 
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I know the default response here to automatically shitcan the UK for any and all reason but I don’t get why anyone feels the need to justify why they want to race in the UK.
I like racing in the UK because it’s the UK. I like racing in other countries as well but I don’t go in for the cultural cringe about why i’m racing here.
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Maybe get a job near where your family live, so you can spend every day at home with them, and even it out a bit 
#justsaying
It’s a matter of perspective and priority; but add up how many nights you’ve been away from home this year for work. An Ironman in Europe is like 4 and you can take them with you.
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Totally agree. I love some of the UK races. It’s not about making people justify why they want to race in the UK. My point was solely about dispelling the myth that racing abroad is some extravagance that takes days out of your life. I raced Bahrain 70.3, and was back at work Monday morning (yes, it’s a Saturday race, but that’s a much longer flight!)
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Excellent. Best of luck.
Personally, I love a Saturday race. Have no idea why. In fact, I don’t like Sundays much at all for some reason.
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back on topic 
It was odd day for me. Slow swim with loads of traffic on the first lap, actually stopping a couple of times as I couldn’t make any forward progress. Then being told the bike was cancelled and I had until 10 to wait to start. Then, like everyone else, started to wonder about how to pace the marathon. I decided to pace it as I would have anyway as that’s the pace I trained to. Managed to run to target pace with a drop off in the last 7km.
It was nice to meet Adam and Tom in person. I saw TC on the run but he’s tritalk royalty so just cheered him on rather than say hello. Oh and said hello to @Rooster too, after the briefing. Yes, I went!
I have no problem with how OSB managed the weekend and would have no problem going back. I’m not sure I will but that’s because I want to try other venues but would do the half and their other races for sure. Nice to see David Bishop going well again. I was disappointed and feel a bit odd in that the usual post event slump isn’t there and I don’t feel I need downtime to recover. Maybe find a HM or 10 mile run to do and get some intervals done?
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I’m wrecked!!!
Was going for a spin and 500m swim tonight, but now getting a haircut instead.
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Yep same. Legs are in pieces. Drive home clearly didn’t do me any favours. Going to have the easiest of easy weeks I reckon
I did the same tried to pace the marathon as if I’d done the bike.
Quite nice to run as Poet said with no pressure on you to deliver a result. And with the weather and everything else against us, just as well.
Super pleased I’ve got Cascais 70.3 coming up as it gives me something to focus on now. Would of felt weird and proper anticlimactic
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Am incredibly impressed you all did the marathon; I would have bailed
Doing a pretty shit marathon on a nothing course in the rain has no appeal
So very well done from me for your mental strength j!
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