Outlaw Half on June 1st.
Kiteloopy - #38
Thomas.Please - #69
Anyone else???
Tom, you stating at the campsite or in town?
J
Considered camping but I'm staying at some cheap service station hotel now which was only £30 or so for the night. Will drive up Saturday morning register, and hang around the place for a bit before going back to the hotel. Think its 30 or so mins away from the watersports centre.
Looking forward to the race, just hope the weather is decent as it was awesome last year.
Many people here done an Ironman Distance Triathlon? I know Thomas.Please has.
Just wondering how long you all left it in terms of deciding to cover that distance, what distances you did first (if any?!) and how many times did you race before hand.
I've done a Sprint Relay so far and an Olympic Distance last year. Will be doing another Olympic this year and taking it from there.
I was a little bit stupid in that I booked IMUK before I'd even done a triathlon, it was shortly before I did the London Triathlon. I took the training for that pretty seriously, and was clear that I wanted to commit to achieving something I'd long wanted to do.
In terms of building up to the distance you sound like you must have a reasonable base of fitness from other triathlons so I would say go for it. In an ideal scenario you should be looking at 25-30 weeks of solid training. But ideally going into that with a good base otherwise you're probably going to struggle.
As an event the day itself is obviously seriously taxing on the body, but its my opinion that anybody can do it if they want it badly enough. I think the most difficult part is really committing yourself to the training, and making the necessary sacrifices associated with that.