I thought that IMUK swim course was long wasn’t it? I think SidSnot swam something like 4.1 km too. Both of you are quality swimmers and can’t have been that bad at sighting!
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Nah - seems to have been correct if you swam in a straight line 
(This is someone from the little group I swam in)
Now look at mine 
Leaders times were all about right, I reckon we just all swung MASSIVELY wide on the second loop.
Loads of people did it yesterday too, going to the finish chute, everyone made an arc, instead of turning at 90° 
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Also, just how accurate are the GPS watches in OW swim mode? Got to be a fair bit of variance there.
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Came second at man v horse at the weekend 
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The horse beat him? 
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Looks like 2 blokes and 3 horses beat him (plus a relay, but they don’t count).
Ricky Lightfoot won overall, only one to beat all horses.
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I remember MTBer Tim Gould being the first human to beat the horses. Man, that must be late 80s/early 90s?!
Quite right…3rd…I mis-remembered his Twitter message. Ricky had an interesting build up of overnight flight and travel in the lead…sleep appears to be overrated!
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He then drove home for his shift as a firefighter at 0730
He knows how to do it 
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Who did?? A TTer?
Hywel @TTowel
Sorry for thread tangent
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Awesome! What a bonkers race that is too
That was a different race possibly? Huw Lobb was the first runner to beat the 
in this race
I did say human! Tim Gould was a MTBer, not a runner. 1989.
If only horses could use cleats 
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"Missed training compounds…
It’s not just one session that you missed, it’s one session’s fitness that you can no longer apply to your ability to handle next week’s load, which will limit your ability to handle the planned load for the week after & so on…
#EverySessionCounts"
Not sure i agree with his latest tweet, unless he is talking about someone at the top of their game.
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I bet there’s a bit of red on TP with a few of his athletes 
Not sure that sort of talk is especially helpful to anyone.
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This is utter bollox, missing sessions because you are lazy is different to missing a session because you need to miss one. If I think I have a virus coming on I would skip a session, if I have meetings from 8am to 10pm (like today) I will skip a session (yes I am in a meeting now). If I am excessively fatigued or facing significant external stress, I will miss a session.
I miss very few session, but don’t try to guilt trip me like this, otherwise I will end up over trained or an emotional wreck
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To be 
, I can kinda see the point. I don’t disagree with the words of that tweet - missed training does compound, as cumulative consistency is king.
BUT more importantly yes it’s not helpful to say that without context, because of course there are often reasons why missing the session is better overall.
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Likewise I wanted to add to my post last night typed as getting into bed - I think majority of swim sets should have intensity and more so than bike/run. Nothing worse than just plodding up and down same pace every session or thinking slow easy drills will help your technique when under fatigue.
But that’s not to say that a long aerobic session isn’t part of the toolbox.
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