London Tri - Done!

[andygates]

Swim 41:27: Good first half, got noodly in the second half.  Zero viz. Who thought blue buoys was clever?  T1: Golden. Long. The shoe trick worked. Bike 1:16 including transitions I think: An hour and more of playing Wipeout on the bike.  Fast, twisty, with tunnels and ramps. No weapon power-ups. Went out hard and fast. T2: Oh, I can run in those shoes if I have to. Yay.  Run 1:04: I checked my soul in T2 and sent my corpse out to shamble round the run.  Run and walk in the hot sun / I fought the nause and the nause won.  Total 3:11.  Full writeup and photos to come once I'm back at base camp - am still at Charlotte & Liz's making their spare bed smell like wet dog.

Is it true that the docks on the Isle of Dogs are full of dead dogs?

Comments

[skean.livejournal.com]

I'll be interested in your stomach's comment on the issue of dead dogs in the water ;-)

Congrats on the shoes.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Those pesky shoes - the T2 dismount was such that I didn't see it before I was on it, and had to clip-clop all the way round the Great Hangar trying not to pitch over...

[fialta.livejournal.com]

great bike time! did you throw up?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

No but I wanted to all through the run. That was a fuelling mistake - 2 x energy drink, even though my plan was 1 x energy, 1 x water. It was just more convenient not to have to find a tap! Stupid error. The heat on the run then punished me for it.

I wasn't running super-hard. I was too green to run that hard.

Ah well, lesson learned. The main thing is: more running!

[stripey-mouse.livejournal.com]

The Isle of Dogs is said to be so called, as Henry VIII is suppose to have kept his hunting dogs there...aparently.

I have a vague recollection of seeing some documents somewhere that a fair few hunting type dog skeletons had been excavated a while back in a location that had been mention in some historical mumble jumble somewhere....

[andygates.livejournal.com]

So that's what was snapping at my heels!