Joe? The £300 Endura ones? Was that as long ago as 14/15? I can’t remember tbh.
Didn’t he (Joe) also try and sell ‘a day training with Joe’ type experience? Fair play to him, he seemed to be putting in a lot of effort to try and make it work… and it has.
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Yeah, Joe was good on here, and pretty down-to-earth tbh. He offered to coach me, perhaps a few others. I think to an extent, he’s had to become ‘outspoken Joe’ to garner clicks/support. He just needs some guidance before he hits transmit at times.
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So @daz is the only TT2.0 member who has gone Sub 9
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I think so.
Hywel Towel was still teaching back then and Sav is a Lawyer, all be it self employed, so probably had a bit of leeway
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yes I got a PM asking if I needed coaching to get to Kona, I thought even Merlin aint doing that for me
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Sav had 15 kids and worked; but he was coached by Bill Black. Sav was all-in and physically gifted to boot.
(okay it’s 4 kids iirc 
I think Mrs Sav is getting payback these days)
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Alan Couzens will get you to Kona…
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We should start a ‘what happened to’ thread. I remember Tony and his wife (Sonya?) and the saga of their windows.
Yes he’s definitely paying back in spades now, and enjoying his “down time”. I always wondered how he did it, even with goodwill of Mrs Sav it was huge time constraints on him.
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What are the next three weeks looking like for you Matt?
Any key sessions pencilled in?
I follow him on twitter, some really interesting stuff, seems you just need to do 3 hours a day all easy to win or something.
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I am feeling really motivated by @Chriswim race this weekend. I will do my best in Roth in 3 weeks, however, as Chris highlights, things rarely go perfectly on the day. I am amazed that he raced so strongly despite suffering from a Virus (did you take a Covid test @Chriswim)
From my own point of view, I am very please with my preparation, I really don’t think I could have done much more, possibly a little more swimming, other than that I am as prepared as I can be
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I wouldn’t disagree with you here. Only former club swimmers like Chris are getting away with as little as 2h20/week! (but they still get the metres in)
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Last week was my last big training week, started with a 340km bike ride, lots of swimming (inc 3600m), lots of running, 2 TT bike rides at IM effort, then on Sunday a 2h8m Olympic Distance triathlon on very tired legs.
The main focus now is time open water swimming. I think I can get my IM pace to 1:50/100m, which would give me a 1h10m swim, about 5 mins from where I hoped it would be.
Tomorrow I am planning a 30km run, will be my last big run before Roth. Aim is 4:45 pace for 15k, 4:15 pace for 10k, 5:00 pace for final 5km. After big run I will start my taper
Temperature later this week will be mid 30’s so opportunity for a bit of heat adaptation.
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That’s what @Jorgan said, part-time 
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Just catching up after a few days away at WTCS Leeds
chapeau @Chriswim - top bombing fella given that you’d not been well in the build up.
My longest pre IM swims were generally around 4500m OW.
FTFY
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