Woburn Blog
Race Reports and Idle Thoughts
In this blog, I’ll be talking about our first effort at swimming whilst tied together with a rope, but first I thought I’d share the full kit list that I’ve settled on. There are two weeks till Breca Buttermere and, after a lot of trial and error, I think I have finally decided which paraphernalia I’ll be using.
Suzy was aiming to complete a Double Ironman – as fiendishly simple as it sounds. She would complete a full Ironman race on Saturday then, after a few hours of sleep, do it again on the Sunday. In addition to this, there was also a group aiming to complete the Continuous Double Ironman: an unrelenting 7.6km swim, 360km bike taking them through the rural unlit night, and a double Marathon to finish.
I saw five “handlebar dismounts” in the forty five minutes I was standing there. The fatal combination is decelerating hard with your weight too far forward. A cyclist would approach the line with too much speed, swing their leg over in preparation, then realise they were going way too fast to start running.
