yes because an Atlantic sea swim is idea for the first 
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Too tough to race for me, but it’s a good training ride especially if you need to work on pacing your effort on hills. I should use it more but only cycle down there once a year in reality.
Its hard enough work getting to Hever, let alone doing a whole lap 
I once ride there, did a Bastion lap and ride home, about 75miles (cudham, Toys and then route from Hever gates. Nearly broke me, Toys the wrong way coming home was the final straw and then climbing from the A25 up to top of Cudham did break me.
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It’s a whole lotta climbing isnt it? 
Give me the turbo in aero any day…
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Swim was rough on Friday for LCW. ‘Didn’t make cut off’ starts on page 19 of 22 on the results.
https://www.lcwwales.com/athletes/results/
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Guilty M’Lud
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again, how can you not make a cut off of a 2.4mile swim, rescued due to some reason, understandable, but unless there was the worlds biggest rip tide that is ridiculous. “I know what I will swim in the rough sea at Wales when my pool times are ~3min / 100m average” I’m all for participation but the dumbing down of the events is because of these unprepared fools. Won’t be long before we will all be expected to race with tow floats and have our own kayak support
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I remember the year the buoy started getting further away on the 2nd lap at LCW. I thought that swim would never end!
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Which, of course, there is. Every time. And twice if it’s in a reservoir.
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It’s 2x lap 1.2m lap with a beach run so chance for a cut off. Starts Friday evening and apparently was getting dark when the finishers came in from those that had obvs just made the cut off so seems fair dinkum
My mate was 18th quickest and was 1:09 & he would be well under the hour normally so thats a pretty good guage of it being a tough swim.
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I did see the 3rd woman out of the swim missed the bike cut off by 20 minutes! 
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Its a tough swim, very rarely isnt , which makes you wonder why do people not prepare properly for it. I didnt start IMW in 2017 because of a dodgy shoulder and risk V Reward. i would have still beaten any cutoff just kicking 2.4miles though.
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didn’t make it easy for yourself eh?? #madbastard
Having ridden around that way many times over the years racing a triathlon across those hills was NEVER an attraction. It was hard enough work being a TO at the FoE - enjoyable when it didn’t rain but still hard graft.
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I’m watching a film about the Lakeland 100 and the RD said he won’t change the course, even with a 40-50% DNF rate, he said.
“If you post on Instagram to tell people you want to test your limits then don’t moan when your limits are tested”
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the very 1st LCW in 2011 had the swim on South beach which was the intended venue for IMW until the remnants of a hurricane (Marilyn??) put paid to that idea. That LCW swim was mental and so many people had a DNF (me included) as many of us got caught in a tidal currant that meant you just didn’t move - I knew my arms and legs were swimming but when you are just staring at the same patch of sand for a long time they you know something isn’t right. I bailed without finishing Lap 1 after an hour in the water!! It was bonkers.
When IMW itself took place I was dreading that swim element, but the change to N beach actually helped me as I got an IM swim PB!!
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We dont get many flat rides, nothing too tough in their own right even Toys , The Wall aside i suppose, but its the relentless nature of it and less than perfect road surfaces.
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S.Beach always looks rough when ive visited. Looks like perfect swim location until you get up close N.B in 2017, looked calm in shore but really choppy as you moved out. Certainly no place for a novice and when you see the photos for 2014 i doubt many decent swimmers enjoyed that.
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Just been called out in IM Sub 10 hour Journey for doing Roth Bike Course in 4h54 @ 210w… apparently he has gone sub 5 hours @190w. I had a quick look, he did 4h58 at IM Maryland, a course with less than 75m elevation, while Roth has 1700m
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Tell him if he had 210W he could have gone even faster 
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