To be fair you’re one of the easier ones! Billabong I think I’ve tracked down as one of three Bills in the AG he mentioned and a location he mentioned. Team Suchevich is indeed a team of two 
Windyyet is going to take more time…
Staffs isn’t in the tracker yet, I know they were only issuing numbers today so…
Bill Downing 1350
I got it right 
good luck
Hey progress is progress, at least I’m not swallowing a gallon of water every time I swim anymore 
Thanks Joe. Bib 739 for me.
Staffs 70.3
Ben is leading his AG so all as planned so far.
Andrew in 3rd for his.
Update:
Andrew has biked his way into 1st, Ben still leading. Both on the run course with one player a minute and a half behind them each.
Update:
Both guys across the line in AG 1st place…Ben 1st overall AG.
Hope Nervous Energy and MK2 are having good days too.
I’m having a very good day… on a cafe ride
Decided to swap Staffordshire for Weymouth.
Pleased to see others going well!
Both Windy and Eric out of the water at Des Moines
@Billabong and @teamsuchevich seem to be only half a mile apart for most of Eagleman 70.3 so far, both through the swim and bike and into the run 
Why the change @mk_2 ? Where are you coming from? Have you done it bef? I’m doing Weymouth too.
The split transition in Staffordshire was causing too many headaches and making me anxious so decided to switch out completely.
I’m coming from Cambridge - this will be my first IM event and first time in Weymouth too!
Unfortunately there’s been a death on the swim and at least one serious bike crash.
In Staffordshire 70.3, heard when I got up this morning, terrible news, so sad.
ITT: Fast people 
Impressive performance @Benwgoodfellow and @andrewbryson, congrats!
I’ve had a bit of a mixed bag at our local half / state champs. Measured by the number of learnings and useful data points for IM CPH a very good race. In terms of finish lines crossed not so much.
Very chaotic swim start. I forgot to look up my start wave (3 waves 15 mins apart) and panicked when I saw all yellow swim caps in the water. Decided to jump in, literally in the last minute before the gun went. No warm up swim, goggles not prepared, very bad starting position. And a mass water start, so utter chaos for the first 400m, a lot of fighting for position, plenty of surging past others and hoping to hang on to a good group. Also, foggy goggles swimming into the sun. A fun experience and useful reminder to take it easier for a full.
The bike was mainly about testing position, new gear and nutrition. I decided to push my fueling further than before and aimed for 105-110g/ h of carbs. Which went down okay. I had some sensations of fullness when I downed the first bottle a bit too quickly, but over the course the fueling seemed alright. I had all my carbs in a pretty thick drink on board and completely failed to pick up additional water, which would soon become my undoing. But the bike itself went fine, probably my best half distance ride ever and a course PR.
Off the bike and onto the run my legs felt good. My stomach however did not and my watched crapped out. A mix of poor pacing and the lack of water / high concentration carbs drink led to terrible stomach cramps and a really awful first lap of two. I walked the aid stations and took as much water as I could get and things began to straighten out by the end of lap 1, but I didn’t have anymore fight in me. Before digging myself too deep a hole and ruining another week of training I tapped out and went home. Lots of learnings to process now. But I got a cool photo!
This is why I get annoyed so much when people on line encourage under trained people to attempt tris, I am not saying that the person who died was under trained but people need to take our sport seriously.
Great Picture.
I think this is poorly worded, or at least I hope so. People should be encourage to take up Tri’s. Not IM without experience granted, yes take the sport seriously. It has a element of risk, but less than lots of other sports which is partly what makes it appealing, but I think it is not correct to push personal beliefs or get annoyed when the facts are not known. I could go on, and explain why my reply in more detail, but it doesn’t help the individual or their family. 
If we remove crashes from the equation nearly all triathlon deaths are in the swim and mostly in sprint distance races. The majority I believe were first timers. They are also nearly all from preexisting but undiagnosed cardiac issues.
This isn’t people going into an IM on no practice and in over their head, this is likely unfortunately something that would happen to them anyway and the triathlon may have just accelerated the timeline.
Here are some stats from the study:
“In the general population, the risk of sudden cardiac death is 40 to 100 deaths per 100,000 people per year. In athletes, that number is one to two per 100,000 per year. However, if we reduce that to the risk of sudden cardiac death on any given day, for the general population the risk is 0.1 to 0.27 per 100,000 per day, while for athletes in a marathon it is one per 100,000 and for triathletes it is 1.7 per 100,000.”
This is terrible but also rare, people need to be aware of the risks, but it shouldn’t be used as a reason to discourage anyone from becoming involved in the sport.
My wife and I did Eagleman as well this weekend, was my first triathlon and first ironman for her.
We started TR plans late September (HV and MV) but I had trouble with it after February while being injured (hip) and having difficulties running. Got flu early May which forces me to completely stop training for 4/5 days and my hip recovered but then I got covid 10 days later, mild symptoms stopped training again for 4/5 days and stopped intensity for a week. First TT outdoor ride I crashed due to my front tire exploded while riding at 30mph. Hopefully only got road rashes and no major injuries. Back on the bike after 2 days, running 2 days after and swimming 10 days later. So I was kind of forced to taper for the moth of May !
Then come the race a week later.
The weather and water temp were very uncertain until the morning of the race, but in the end it was wetsuit legal and we did not get thunderstorm and no continuous heavy rain.
We didn’t know what to expect in the swim so we started in the 40min and 45min groups but ended finishing faster than we were expecting.
T1 went good, felt strong on the first half of the bike and tried to maintain the avg speed during second loop while pushing less watts. I started to feel a bit of gut discomfort late in the ride so I knew I will have to stop to the bathroom at T2, which took me an additional 3min or so. I blame sodium bicarbonate for that 
Started the run with gut cramps so I had to lower the speed for the first 3 miles. Felt better after and finished strong.
Finished 4th from my AG in 4:27 and got a spot for WC 2022 at St George. My wife finished in 6hours.
Overall we both had a lot of fun and really enjoyed this race.
I will also be doing IM Maryland in September.
Awesome - well done!
Did you have a level of fitness coming into training in September? what if anything are you planning on changing up for you build into IM Maryland?
