You do you. Im bringing some bottled water, and beer
1 Like
Glass bottles I hope.
3 Likes
It was actually a baboon in the video, which is a primate.
2 Likes
Of course. Wonât be glassing anyone with a plastic bottle now. Although fully loaded and launched with froce it can be a decent weapon against drunks and triathletes
I honestly couldnât give a monkeys 
1 Like
I said to my wife do you mind if go for a few days when I do that triathlon. She said I donât care what you do as long as it gets you training again.
Everyone else heard that as Drâs papers for a new bike yeah?
12 Likes
Sheâs a kipperđ
2 Likes
Keeperđ
2 Likes
Hopefully by May next year, she wonât have changed her mind!
1 Like
Donât ask me why iâm doing this, but i am. And this will stick.
But iâm obsessing over my performance this year at Cots, and what my targets are for next year, despite it being flippin miles off.
I am (currently) settling on this. I think.
Swim should be about there .
Bike - need to find an extra 1.57kph on top of what i had for the first 80km of this yearâs ride (before i got lost). Bearing in mind the busy course probs aided me even if i was a conscious non drafter and the no swim. But the yo yo-ing was annoying and there was deffo energy/hydration downsides of hanging about before the non swim. So maybe it balances out? New bike should/may help (?), but also need to be a bit stronger .
Run - 5 mins quicker than this year. This is what i believed i was capable of, or close to. I ran similar times off big bikes in training. Hoping the new bike will help my legs out a bit next year. May, ironically, be the hardest one to nail.
8 Likes
Nice. I will look forward to you shooting past me on the bike 
What website is that?
1 Like
Nice
Could be another tri battle royale between you and @Poet if he decides to race
Wasnât he targeting 4h19 as well?
I didnât say iâd actually manage to do it!! This is sat at my keyboard, in a warm bedroom on a showery November day having not trained for 3 days! 
May as well set lofty ambitions, and then see what happens!
3 Likes
4:19 dead. None of this adding 50 seconds rubbish 
3 Likes
Actually the more i think about it, the harder it gets!
Thatâs very fast on the bike! The first time i did it i was chuffed with a 31kph average!
Whatâs the logic behind the bike split? What were you doing on the roadie?
37kph average up to 80km on the roadie.
Then on the calculator i locked in the max run and swim pace i think i could hit, and this was the bike split i was left with! Well, originally it came out at like 4.21 or summin, so i tweaked it down below 4.20 out of interest.
T1 is probably a bit slower than that in real life. Probs T2 as well actually, so maybe <4.25 would be more realistic.
1 Like
In my first middle distance race in 8 years, after having 5 years off, yeah. 
Swim was naff - proper scared of biff, so I started near the back left (?) and swam wide.
Bike I stopped twice - once for my BTA another for my saddlebag.
Run - hit the deck coming out of T2 and lost 20s/km for the first 2km whilst running it off.
Got a disc wheel and better TT hat now.
Plus I know I can dig deeper on the bike and still run at 4:17/km.
probably go for 240W and âsprintâ the swim (itâs short)
0:28
0:02
2:20
0:01
1:28
Piece oâpiss
4 Likes