I really recommend this as next year’s A race.
I never really felt a sense of elation finishing a race… until 1:45am this morning. This is what it’s about, and I couldn’t recommend it more
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Congrats Matt! That’s flippin epic. Just make sure you get the organisers to overlay the route onto the map next year. Would make tracking better for us lot! 
I get you’re absolutely cream crackered right now!
Again. Super well done buddy. Glad you got to use your epic spring/summer form on an actual race this year!
I on a massive adrenaline rush 
Your advice on nutrition was spot on
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Well done Matt, congratulations on a top ten finish.
You’ll have to share some pics if you get your hands on any
Preregistratio open for next years event.
My support team took loads, need to get some off them
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What a rock star. I am totally in awe!
Amazing Matt. Looking forward to a report and pictures.
Great effort, chapeau Sir!
Indeed Chapeau!
Tremendous effort and superb result. I’d still be pushing my bike up the mountains.
This came up in my FB feed today
Looks suitably crazy for the off season
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And I thought I did well to do the YD200 on Saturday (Yorkshire Dales 200 mile bike ride with 5300m elevation). That just fades now. 
Well done Matt! Impressive feat.
As for ultra culture, if you haven’t done Tri X yet I heartily recommend it. Or if you want something really daft then go for the Extreme X. It’s local (well UK), easy going and in a beautiful area - see you there next year. 
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5300 in YD sounds tough, climbing a 28km 8% mountain is very different and easier than the short steep hills in Yorkshire
Extreme X is definately on my Radar, unfortunately it clashes with my deferred Roth entry. Really annoying as I think I would prefer to have a go at Extreme X
Why don’t you pop over to Switzerland for Triverest
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Careful now, I might take you up on that.
I was actually rather tempted this year until I calculated the average speed required on the bike and run. Not sure I’m fast enough, or at least was. Bike training has gone surprisingly well this year.
The YD200 is not like the Lakes btw. Apart from Park Rash which is early in the ride I’d estimate max gradient at around 25% - but there was a lot of them (Garmin Climb had it as 32 distinct graded climbs throughout the day). I never faded and climbed the last one at same power as the first so must’ve paced it right. Felt like I could have done another 100km at the end without any major problems.
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After the disappointment of Davos yesterday, I received an email this morning from Dianna at Helveticman (organiser of Triverest), she had seen what happened at Davos. Even though Helveticman next weekend is closed, she offered me a place So I have another event to go to… and the weather forecast is perfect
What a strange season this is turning out to be
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Its official, I love extreme events.
Helveticman was absolutely bloody excellent. A 70.3 with 4300m climbing. The run (parts were walk) on a plateau at 2600m was breath taking and tough with almost no tarmac and 800m climbing (I think that all the climbs were 25% or more)
The bike had 3500m, which was pretty easy, but climbs were beautiful. I thought I was good at descending, but having done a race with some of Switzerlands best riders makes me think I am distinctly MOP when it comes to descents (tried to follow some down and they were getting crazy angles on the bike)
Running straight off a 1100m climb on the bike was interesting, and altitude definately had an impact
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Just seen that Swiss Ultra is running a Double Decca - 76km swim, 3600km bike then 840km run
Swim is all in a 50m pool
Bike is on a 9km course
Run is on a 1.2km course
I think that the repetitive loops will be greater than the physical challenge
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Don’t do it 
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Certainly not. I can’t imagine why anyone would do it
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