A game of cat and mouse today at the #weymouth #70.3
The swim was canceled due to poor weather and so it was all about the bike and run.
Whilst starting together, Matts superior bike legs and fitness left me gasping for breath, and so I had to hold back at half way, to avoid certain death. I finished the 90k bike 6 minutes behind Matts epic 2h56.
At this point, it was all about the half marathon run, just as the full storm clouds loomed.
The 21k run started as good as it can with shot legs, but some cramps for Matt and Gels on my stomach resulted in an emergency pooh stop!
It must be said that I’ve never seen such a perfectly laid Pooh Pyramid, it was like a shit lasagna, but pointy, and so with no paper, and mud (?) all over the floor, sadly my brand new sock was sacrificed for the cause.
The wind and rain was biblical for the second half of the half marathon which only added to the challenge.
I hunted Matt down hard after the Priority portaloo-pooh-pitstop (as you can see by my twatty graph), making up my lost time, bar the final 65 seconds!!
That pooh ultimately cost me the win, or more.to the point the lack of paper and resulting forced shoe/sock removal, but this is racing.
It’s going to go down in history as one of the closest 5hour battles ever.
The next Ironman will be overseas – this weather socks, sorry sucks.
Next up: Chester marathon in 4 weeks, then a silly ultra a couple of weeks after, but I’m not allowed to talk about that.
camping jedi 
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