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Absolutely hilarious.
When that phone call came through, I knew
instantly before Ray said anything what he was doing.
And I was absolutely laughing inside because he was, like, saying
things like, right,
just let me just explain something.
Don't interrupt, I Just want to explain something.
And I knew I knew exactly what he was going to ask me.
So I was going to say yes
straight away, but I thought I'd let him squirm a bit longer.
He was trying to sort of
butter me up and trying to sort of really sell me a good deal.
So as soon as I sort of said yes, I'll do that.
His reaction was like, really? Really?
It was just like he couldn't believe it and he was buzzing.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall
to have seen that.
Background story
So I was a runner before I did triathalons
and I began to get a bit bored, really.
And my friend, was doing triathlons.
She’d just started.
So I thought actually, that sounds like a pretty cool thing to do.
So I started on that journey of triathlons.
And the reason
for sort of carrying on and doing
possibly hopefully cross fingers, Iron Man, it's just excitement is the buzz.
and it's the, capability of being able to do it, possibly.
As I said, I started off doing triathalons and I started doing SuperSprint,
because I was only capable, really of doing SuperSprint.
I was a rubbish swimmer.
In fact, my first ever, triathlon, I was doing side stroke
because I couldn't actually swim properly.
Since joining Ray and doing P.T.
with Ray, he's just got this amazing ability to try and motivate you and talk
you and make you sort of have this self-belief that you can do more.
Raymond: You filming?
Oi! Sean mate, film this!
(Laughter)
And Ray sort of turned round to me one day and said, you can do it.
You can do a sprint, which is the next level up.
So I've sort of said to myself, I'm going to do things
that I've always told myself that I couldn't do.
So one been sprint, and I've done a couple of those now.
I've done Ride London and I've done Swim Serpentine.
Those are the two things Ride London and Swim Serpentine.
I've always said to myself, I'll never, ever be able to do that, but
with the belief that Ray’s given me, I've nailed it.
And that's why I'm on this journey now.
This journey to to do the next step, of a half Iron man.
About ten years ago I started to do some running,
so I joined a friend to do a race for life
5k for cancer research and raise some money.
And before that I hadn't really done anything.
But I really enjoyed it.
Started to do more running, increase the distance to 10k's,
and then just kept pushing my limits and decided actually,
if I can do 10k, then why not do a half marathon?
So I started doing half marathons.
Reached my ultimate goal in 2021,
and did the London Marathon, which was absolutely amazing.
And never in a million years would I have thought I could do such a thing.
But during Covid I trained and did lots of running, which is amazing.
Really supported my mental health. Following the London Marathon,
about a week later
I was diagnosed with breast cancer, which obviously absolutely devastated me.
Turned my life upside down
and didn't really know what to do with myself.
So had the treatment, had a lumpectomy, radiotherapy, about six months worth.
Needed something else to support my mental health
and have a goal to achieve that was going
to really give me something to do, and keep me focused.
So I joined, I signed up for ride London, 100 miles,
bought a bike, signed up to work in a cycling club and just,
yeah, cycling really helped me mentally.
It was great for social interaction as well.
And I started taking some medication,
which was starting to increase my weight, which I wasn't happy with at all.
Having had cancer and then having to take a drug
that actually makes you gain weight
and then actually get told that you can't lose weight on it.
I needed something to do to help me mentally so,
ride London was absolutely epic and I love that too.
And during that journey, I met Ray and Cindy,
which then inspired me to do some swimming over the summer.
And actually, Ray suggested doing the swim serpentine.
I was like, yeah, you know, I get one of the London classics if I do that,
which is fantastic. Absolutely loved it.
So I did that in September. Obviously
having done swim serpentine, it's like, what's next?
What is next?
I started to gain weight during the treatment, with the drugs
that I was taking.
So knowing that, I needed something different.
I needed something new to help combat that.
You know, it's it's Chelsea versus tamoxifen, which is the drug that I'm taking.
And I, you know, and it's not going to win.
It's not going to beat me.
So I need something else.
I got into triathlon training, earlier on this year,
funnily enough, I'd been involved in half marathons.
Then the Bracknell Half Marathon a couple of times.
I've done the Wokingham Half Marathon a couple of times.
I can ride a bike, race.
Ray’s always harping on it.
Me to get involved with triathlons.
I know that, ultimately, swimming is my my weakest, my weakest link.
But, I thought, why not?
Let's give it a go.
Over the years, historically, I've always had,
you know, yoyo-ing, with my weight.
At one point, I went from 105 kilos down to 74 ish, there or thereabouts.
And then from that, you know,
people were telling me that, you know, my God, Lee, you need to eat.
And then I sort of stopped dieting, put on a load of weight
again until about sort of a couple of years ago
or a few years ago where I got back into running.
And I got into that sort of quite hard, which is when I started doing
the half marathons, and then, at the end of the Bracknell
Half Marathon, Ray said to me to get involved in, get involved in the triathlons,
which, I signed up for Dorney as my first triathlon, which was,
which was a sprint, and it was more of, a learning
curve for me just to sort of see what the race experience would be like.
And at the end of that, you know, I came off absolutely loved it.
But I knew there were some big parts that I needed to work
on swimming being one of them.
At the time, I could only swim breaststroke, which,
you know, massively slowed me down.
I knew I'd catch up on the on the running,
and I knew I'd catch up on the bike.
So, I'm now at the point where I'm now taking front crawl swimming lessons.
And they're going really well.
So, I hope for the, the half Ironman I'm going to be able
to get all the way through. Funnily enough, like a sixth sense.
I actually knew that call was coming from Ray.
We discuss it a lot on WhatsApp,
and he's always egging me on to do either a half or a full.
And for some weird reason, when that call came through, I knew that
that was going to be it. It started off with, you're not going to like this,
but and I know exactly where that question was going.
So, yeah, I was I was, quite excited to get that call.
So triathlons, I got into it last year.
The background to that really is
I snowboarded at quite high level prior.
Always training.
There was an end goal with snowboarding.
But when like, all good things come to an end that did
and then I had to get into the real world of work.
I was just training and not really for purpose.
Work, I have to train quite a lot to keep my physical fitness up.
And, yeah, I just wanted an end goal.
Like swimming, like running, like cycling.
So sort of came together and fought triathlons, incorporate all of them.
So went with that.
First triathlon, bumped into Ray
he was there with another lad and,
I knew Ray from old and,
sort of hit it off again and, kept bumping into each other at triathlons.
And then here we are today.
To be honest, when the first call came in, I was kind of expecting it.
Ray and I both did,
where was it? Weymouth last year.
And I think, like myself, Ray, was quite disappointed that the swim got cancelled.
It felt like a little bit of a farce
So it's not really an Ironman.
It was just basically a, a bike run, albeit for a long distance.
I came off the start line pretty annoyed.
Got through, got to the finish.
Still annoyed.
Which is probably why I sort of raced angrily,
and actually went and booked the full Ironman,
not even thinking about doing a half, a proper half, beforehand.
So when the call came in from Ray I was a bit like,
Thank God I ‘ve actually got a stepping stone now,
so yeah, it's going to be good.
It's a month or two prior to the full,
so I really need to take each step as it comes,
and it means that we can all train together again,
which is always better than, training on our own.
So I'm an ex Royal Marine commando, and Ray trained me
to work, and challenge myself to become a Royal Marine commando.
And then it was ten years later we reconnected
after doing ten years in the military.
We bumped into each other on the new half marathon,
and we discussed about what
challenges we wanted to do next and where we wanted to go.
And we found out we both shared this goal of doing
an ironman, and Ray previously booked the half
but cancelled it, bottled it, and it was us coming together.
that gave us this shared goal and desire.
We were able to work out what we needed to do, to achieve it,
and the rest is history.
There was excitement,
there was apprehension, knowing what we've been through in the past,
but then the excitement of knowing what the people were going
to share in the journey with what they're going to be going through,
sharing our experiences and guiding them through it,
and then trying to challenge ourselves to either beat each other,
and set a new personal best in the half ironman.
Swansea’s a challenging location, but a beautiful one and it's a great finish.
It's one of the nicest, if not the nicest half Ironman locations in the UK
and it's going to be amazing sharing that journey with new, new people
that have never done a half ironman distance before, because there's no
feeling like crossing the ironman finish line,
being cheered on by all your friends and family.
Me and Ray, are very competitive and like a big driving factor
in our training is to make sure that we don't embarrass ourself,
that we challenge, challenge each other and push each other.
And we've had so many events where we finished by one
second, a couple minutes and it's always it's always usually very tight.
And it's it's a driving factor to either train and to push
ourselves in those events.
(Rock Music Playing)
It’s 6.55pm
It’s zero degrees outside and I really don't want to go anywhere now.
Going out for a little run.
It’s a bit rainy
Hey guys! I so didn't want to do that
spin class, but I dragged myself here.
It's raining, it's cold, it's dark.
6:45 on the 29th January.
It's cold, I’m sneezing every two seconds.
I've got a cough.
So just back from boot camp.
It's the 31st January. Put my all into it.
Swimming, cycling, running, strength, boot camp.
Bit of PT, slowly building up.
As regards to how I'm feeling training wise
0-10, with 10 being I’m bursting at the seams
I probably would say that currently today,
right now, as I stand...probably a seven.
What are you doing booking in so late?
Keeping me out of my house.
Should be home relaxing now. Look at you!
Oh really? Ooh!
Whoa!
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(Laughter)
(Mysterious music playing)
In all seriousness, I felt, it's almost a sense of relief
because I heard through the grapevine,
I think a lot of people that were in opposition from Weymouth,
they were all going straight away and booking.
So spaces will go in.
There is that realisation though, that as soon as you click
that button to accept the slot and pay your money,
you better do something about it, because otherwise it's a hell of a waste.
But it does give you that purpose.
You got a goal now, to work towards.
So, yeah. It's a new challenge on the horizon and looking forward to it.
I was so many emotions in one go, I was buzzing,
excited, petrified, terrified.
All of the above. But very excited.
Terrified and excited all at the same time.
But I do know that there's plenty of time to get the training in
to learn the front crawl. I’m never going to be perfect at it.
But you know,
I am a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to be as good as I can possibly be.
But I think I've got enough time to get there between now and July next year.
You know, I was strangely calm.
You know, it's just like completing an online,
you know, Tesco's online shopping thing, (survey)
And I was quite calm about it.
And I think the reason
why is, I think because over the years and particularly this year, you know,
there are things that you can control and the things you can't control.
You know, you can control things like your training plan, your
what you eat, your rest days, but what you can't control
is things like injury, illness or something that might happen on the day.
So at the end of the day, you just
you do what you can, you turn up and it's a journey.
You can't always control something.
I was excited because I'd come back down to the half
distance is a lot more enjoyable.
It's a lot easier to train for.
It doesn't take anywhere near
the amount of pressure and strain on your loved ones.
And it's just a much more enjoyable distance compared to doing a full weekend.
So it's a lot more happier
Content.
Sunday the 14th of April.
Reading half marathon today. 13.1 miles. All in preparation for Ironman Swansea.
Got Stuart here, my pal. I'm going to smash you today!
It's the start the season.
Let's see who's going to get the first one under their belt.
We've got Chelsea, Lee, Cindy, and Sam also doing it.
So six of us.
So yeah we're really excited.
We’ll let you know how we get on.
Does your wife Laura, know you've confirmed
No she doesn't yet.
I've been saving that and putting it off. Delaying it as long as I possibly can.
The fear of her reaction,
she hoped that once I'd done Wales ironman. it would be the end of it.
They’d be no more ironmans.
Worries and anxieties for me would be the swimming.
I've always had anxieties over swimming.
I think mainly because it's not something...
...It's not something that I train in on a regular basis.
Up until now.
My strength, I would say, is my running, for sure.
And, cycling.
In terms of my strength, definitely the swimming.
Having just trained for literally a couple of months in the summer
and then being able to swim two miles, I know I can, I can do that.
My biggest concern is the cycling, the hilly cycle.
Not great on hills, have to say, but I will put all the training in
and focus on the hill training and get that done.
Also slightly nervous about having to do a half marathon after all of that.
A half marathon is hard enough as it is.
So yeah, but I know putting all the training in
and it will come together.
(Cheers)
My strength is probably the bike.
My favorite discipline.
Probably the swim.
Although that's my weakest.
Do I have any worries? Yes.
I think there's always worries. with triathlon.
I mean, we've seen this year, what can go wrong.
So, yeah, it can be quite, quite tragic sometimes.
So definitely, definitely worries out there.
You get a little bit anxious on the start line, especially before the swim.
But that being said, I think if you train for it,
you can train as hard as you like.
You can put your best position.
You just got hope. The weather and everything's with you.
Yeah.
I struggled, I found that
really, really hard for my first one. I had a bit of a knee injury.
I'm not making excuses.
I thought I was going to smash Stuart today, and he actually smashed me.
The start of the 2024 season first win in the bag.
The heat was challenging.
I didn't expect it to be quite as hot today.
What time did you get? Good one 28 seconds.
One 34 so yeah, he done me. Sam, how'd you get on?
Not too bad. Stuck to what I wanted to do
Stuck with the pace the whole way round. Good to get some miles in under the belt.
And it's just of chipping away, working towards an end.
Left the house at six o’ clock
The plan was originally to leave at half past six.
I got to about an hour in
and my watch was saying 20 for some reason.
Three miles in, I was in bits.
Six miles in, I was in bits.
I didn't settle into it at all.
I had cramp in my hamstrings.
Cramp in my calves,
shoulders were hurting.
Apartt from all that, it went really well.
Actually, I found it bit hard.
It was a bit warm
I did enjoy it. The whole way round.
I was going, I'm not doing a marathon, I’m not doing a marathon ever again.
But I did enjoy it.
I've got to keep stretching every now and then.
But it was good.
So it was pretty hot, right?
It was so hot.
It was alright, I just ate jelly babies.
I was bloody hard weren’t it?
I don't know.
Oh, yeah.
So it was, I believe the Cork ironman
had a couple of fatalities.
(Soulful music)
They had a couple of fatalities
this year due to the, due to the weather.
I think the conditions were less than ideal, shall we say.
And there was a few people that got into a little bit of difficulty.
I don't know the full ins and outs of it, but unfortunately two people
did lose their lives during that event.
Andy, was genuinely
one of the nicest chaps you're ever going to meet.
Loyal, supportive, friendly,
funny, and just so committed to everybody that he knew
in his life family and friends. Fabulous father, great husband.
And he is really sadly missed by everybody that had the pleasure to meet him.
It's a combination of feelings.
It's a feeling of pride. Most definitely.
Most men, when they get to a certain age, they like to stay fit.
He took it to a whole new level, as he did with most things.
So mostly I'd say I was proud.
But the periods of absence that had to happen for him
to, go through with any of the events was, was sometimes painful.
The hours he spent in the saddle
and on the road and his open water swimming first thing in the morning.
They were sometimes irritating, shall I say.
But he was never going to stop, and he was always looking
for the next competition, the next venue, the next challenge for him.
So, always, always supportive of him.
But it was a little bit of how long is this going to take to get through.
Yeah. So.
Right, so Ray approached Andy because he needed some help
with, the open water swim part, an event that was coming out quite soon.
And Andy had a busy week, that week, as I remember it.
But he knew that that Ray needed that confidence
because that's the most difficult and scary part of the event.
And I didn't want to see him go into that event without somebody there
without having the confidence that he needed to be in the water.
So he was happy to help.
As I remember, he had a really busy week that he would have dropped anything
for anybody at any time.
And it was so important for Ray to get that confidence with somebody
who knew what they were doing. So he was happy to help.
You probably know these events start at stupid o'clock in the morning.
He stayed up late the night before and he rang me when he woke up at 4:30.
Sounded bright, enthusiastic as he always did.
Very excited.
The day of the event is always so exciting.
He had his breakfast, so he'd had the correct fuel, as I call it.
So he was buzzing and he was really, really excited.
As was I, the previous ironman he did
was incredibly hot day. Very challenging.
So he was looking forward to to getting a PB.
So it was all very normal.
And I thought they made a mistake because there was no way he was going to fail the swim.
And they told me he got into trouble.
I can only imagine what it's like for the people that were there.
I've spoken to a number of them since, it must have been awful for them.
For me
I thought they made a mistake
because swimming is the best.
And, the first event.
So how could he be in trouble in the swim?
So, yeah, it was a shock.
And yeah, I probably denied it for a long while because it came about, in the swim.
He was good at swimming in. So I was shocked.
I probably would say.
And a bit worried.
(Sad music)
(Rock music)
So it's 20 miles in
and I'll show you the view.
(Rock Music Playing)
I’ve got her shirt on
and she’s got mine on.
So we’ve just arrived at Dorney Lake.
I've got my sister here doing the triathlon. Are you excited?
Very - We got Roxy, and Liam as well.
I look like a helmet.
So I got into triathlons through my brother,
who actually, told me to do a do a triathlon with him, so I did.
And my background is I'm a swimmer.
I was a lifeguard and I've always, always enjoyed fitness and staying healthy.
I did an Ironman because my brother signed me up to it as he thought it would be a good idea.
And it was Weymouth Ironman.
Unfortunately, the swim got canceled because of a storm
and so it was a triathlon.
I have done a sprint at Dorney Lake.
I've also done Olympic at Windsor, and I feel like that I didn't do an Ironman.
So, you have to do an Ironman, you have to do the swim.
So when the swim got cancelled, to me it wasn't doing an Ironman.
So I was really disappointed and I felt like I hadn't even done an Ironman.
I was excited, so excited.
I was jumping up and down, rubbing my hands together.
I couldn't believe it. Was over the moon.
I felt so happy.
But then in the same time, I felt really like, oh no, it was
what have I done? What's my brother done to me again?
Otherwise, I was just.
I was over the moon
because I love being a part of the Iron Man and the triathlon experience
It’s the best.
So this is the
moment when I've got into triathlons.
I have never completed a triathlon before.
The first one I do will be in May.
And so what made me sign up to,
a half Ironman while I take an interest anyway, in being fit.
I do like to run, and do some training with Ray and that kind of thing.
Where’s Joyce gone? Joyce?
(Loud Music Playing)
I do think it's important as well to have goals.
And sometimes, you know, it might be in your, career or something,
and other times it's in your personal life.
So I feel like this year, for me,
it's obviously more in my personal life and trying to achieve this.
Last year, I, had a bit of a landmark birthday,
so I hit 40 and, that's sometimes a bit of a wake up
call and, you know, being healthy.
And then I,
you know, there's lots of little reasons, I guess, that led up to it, but also,
you know, my parents have had
different health issues in the past year or two.
And I know right before I decided to do it, my mum was,
having tests for something, and I said, if she's unwell,
I'll need to go and support her so I won't be able to do something like this.
But if she gets a good result from today, then I'm going to, like, seriously,
think about signing up for it.
And thankfully it was a good result.
And here I am.
I have zero experience in triathlon.
This, is going to be all very new for me, and in many respects
I see myself as the runt of the litter in this group.
But somebody has to take up that position.
I have completed a ten K before,
and that's probably about it, but there was definitely a sense of panic.
I think even once I decided I was going to sign on, we did it there
and then in the gym
while I was still jogging on the spot, trying to get my credit card details in,
because I knew if I
let myself pause at all, I'd probably not do it.
But anyway, we signed up.
And honestly, since then it has been a general sense
of panic, and excitement.
Being married to Ray, who trains
all of the time and has been doing this for three years now,
at times has been really exhausting.
I think the first year I was pregnant, so it was fine.
It gave him something to do.
He wasn't bugging me and he'd just leave me alone.
And then the second year, I did really little and I was dragging him
around to all the events, which was quite challenging.
But he just slept a lot, so Ray didn't really miss anything,
you know, being with the baby.
And then this year has been the most challenging because RJ is now
15 months and he wants his dad around all of the time and is constantly active.
And so, yeah, when Ray is gone all of the time on three hour
bike rides and endless swims and runs, it's exhausting.
As I watched his first one when he completed Weymouth
and he was more confident in the swim and the bike, and the run,
now I don't get so nervous.
I won't lie, I still get nervous when he's in the water.
I don't know why, I just want him to be out of the water
and then when he gets out of the water, then I feel quite calm on the bike
and when I see him get back from the bike, I get really, really happy.
And then I know that he has the run solid because he's just an avid runner.
How are we feeling?
I’m shitting myself. My asshole is going boop boop boop boop..
(Rock Music Playing)
And I'm like, sat there for hours.
Are you glad you went down to the super?
I'm glad I went down to the Super sprint.
Joyce was set on the sprint and I advised her to come down.
It's the swim.
The swim is the like.
It's just so knackering
and I did breaststroke the whole time because I'm nervous. So.
Oh, no, you smashed it.
I heart held my legs.
So it's the bike to the run.
You like, feel like jelly.
I was the same?
Oh, I nearly drowned you know, it was fine.
You didn’t kiss me!
I did this thing where I go like this stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke.
And then I went stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke.
Whatever that's called.
It was brutal!
I'm in pain.
Yeah, yeah, I feel really sick.
No, not at all.
I had an absolute nightmare at the beginning.
So, I put the strap on the outside of my wetsuit,
and then I come out of the swim,
took my wetsuit off,
and the strap was caught on it.
I'd already taken it all the way off, I had to take it back up
undo the strap.
Go on.
Got the bike, went out
and then I realised I didn't have my bib on.
So I out my bike down, went back and couldn’t find my bib
my bib had blown away towards the water.
So I had to do that.
(Rock Music Playing)
It was tough. Really!
Build up for Swansea in Wales?
Yeah. Not too bad for miles.
It's hard because of the heat.
Made it extremely difficult.
But what it done.
I fell over towards the end.
I get up and I'm like....
You’re an ironman, get up”
How was your first half marathon?
It's okay.
I went too fast off the blocks, did my fastest 10-K which was something,
but then I was dead beat for the second 10k.
Look at them over there. Look.
I've heard there's a girl’s WhatsApp group.
It's cool because we CAN!
(Rock Music Playing)
I did a 20 mile
bike ride with Cindy and Lee, which was quite nice.
We set off about eight this morning and got back, I think about 9:20.
Had a little, pit stop and, hit the ten k.
I think I've done a pretty good time, actually. So.
Yeah. I think I'm an hour, on the nose.
Yeah.
For me, it’s good.
Confident now for Swansea? Feel like you’re ready for it?
Yeah you did.
You'll get there.
I'll never be confident.
I was really pleased and I had the legs.
Definitely.
It was just a bit hot today but I need to get a two-piece tri-suit just in case.
I need a few pushes on the way.
Perfect. Well done Cindy.
The work sessions are really good training to do.
Ray was telling us that we should do lots of like bike to run and stuff.
So we got up this morning nice and early
and got on the bikes.
And someone was missing,
and yeah, that someone was really up for it in the WhatsApp group.
So yeah, I'm on it.
I'm all over it. We're doing it, we're doing it, doing it.
Which from Ray and you didn't do it.
And he didn't turn up. .
All talk, that’s what he is. All mouth and no trousers.
Yeah, that's the trouble.
I think he had a few beers.
We’ll change it from where's Wally to where’s Ray!
(Rock Music Playing)
Here we go mother********.
We’re in London.
Alright, Sam and Hannah?
Hannah?
Sam?
Right. Nearly 22 miles
I’m riding 100.
Got some geezer coming over with a speaker.
Loving life.
But Sam's bikes jammed.
It’s caught in one gear.
My sister has got chest pain, and I feel pretty good
with this dude!
Yeah.
Halfway.
Mother*******
How are you feeling, Sam?
How you feeling, Hannah?
Good. Sam?
Right.
We're nearly 60 miles in, and my sister's there.
She said her fanny’s sore
the, chest pains gone.
I said I got a couple of tampons in the bag for her.
She’s manned up, but, yeah, she's doing well.
She should have put some Vaseline on the flaps.
Coming up to mile 70.
With the bro Sam.
An absolute beast.
Hannah’s back there somewhere.
With a sore fanny.
All done! Medal!
Medal!
Check for overfan at the finish!
Jesus. Me and Sam
had a 90 minute massage waiting for her!
Four course dinner.
Four course!
(Moans and yelps)
That is f*****g evil.
Come here, boy.
Yeah.
Phew!
Souvenir mate!
(Music Playing)
My strength will be swimming.
Yeah, I'm a good swimmer.
I've always been a good swimmer.
I'm just lucky
when it comes to swimming, which I know that the swim is what puts most people off.
Even signing up to triathlon.
If I was to do a competition, which I did do a lot
when I was younger, it would be in the pool.
So my weakness is the bike.
I tend to come off the bike a lot and fall off the bike a lot.
So unfortunately
my bike's damaged at the moment, so it's in the shop being repaired,
so that's going to cost £85, which is fantastic.
Can't wait to go in and pick that up.
So yeah.
So the bike I want to concentrate more on the bike,
but I can't at the moment because it's in the shop being repaired.
And that's what I wanted to do.
And I will as soon as I get it back leading up to,
an event, I'm going to concentrate on the bike.
Bike to run.
Well, what spurs me on sometimes
is normally when my brother's training, he'll be banging on the door.
Come on, let's go for a run.
So that helps.
Another thing that helps is the group.
So being in the the Iron Man group with with them,
they're always uploading what they've done, which is normally quite a lot.
So if you look at that when you're lying in your bed,
when you know that you should have got up already and done your training
kind of makes you motivated to get up and then upload what you've done.
God forbid you don't wear your watch and upload it,
then it doesn't count, apparently.
So yeah.
Lee always calls you out on that if you don't wear your watch
and it's not been uploaded to Strava, doesn't matter.
You could have done half a marathon run,
but if it's not been uploaded, it's not in Strava.
It's not. You didn't do it. So.
Yeah it's the 1st of June.
So we have Blenheim Palace. It’s 1-1 at the minute.
He done me at Reading. I done him at Bracknell.
So today’s the decider. The decider before getting up for the ironman.
It's lovely. She's excited.
Come and introduce yourself.
Guys, this is the crazy Irish guy, Mike.
Hi, guys. I'm Mike, it's my first time doing triathlon
These guys were really excited for us.
And good luck to Susie Jennings out there today.
Having a lovely time.
Susie, Lee here he is, you know.
How are you feeling?
My background story is actually quite short.
About 18 months ago,
I did a Tough Mudder with some mates for birthday, a bit of a last minute thing
we jumped on.
Enjoyed it.
Came back here, had a few drinks and, next thing.
But the next morning I realised I'd signed up to do
Ironman Staffordshire, which was 70.3.
Thank God at the time.
And then rolling on from that, I spent 20 weeks training,
which I really, really enjoyed.
I went to Staffordshire,
had a really good time and enjoyed it, and then I got wind afterwards.
That there was a group from Bracknell going doing Ironman in Swansea,
and I heard it was headed by Ray Mouzon, who’s a highly motivated individual,
and I decided to jump onto that.
(Cheering)
Enjoy it.
Do you know about the initiation of Iron Man?
Is the first time
You did not look good in front of me on the bike.
What do you say?
You did that on Ride-100 on the bike?
People were like, disgusted
and sweaty. D
To be honest, I actually didn't get a phone call from Ray.
My initial contact with Ray was I was added to the group
by a mate of mine who was also doing this, which is Lee Curtis,
and I think Ray might have thought that I wasn't actually fully signed up for it.
So Ray got in contact and asked me why I was doing it.
Had I done one before, I was definitely signing up,
which actually motivated me more to actually sign up at that time.
Otherwise I would have pushed it all out.
Maybe pushed a bit forward.
But yeah, pretty much from there.
Ray pushed me on, got me into and then signed up and I never looked back.
In triathlon in particular, not as much as I would like.
As I said about 18 months ago is when I started this journey.
Before that, absolutely nothing.
Since then I've done two super sprints or, sorry, two sprints.
Based in Fleet and one sprint placed at Blenheim Palace.
It's a roller coaster of emotions.
That's probably one of the best things.
It's nervous, apprehensive, excited, wanting to get started,
almost wanting time to speed up but slow down at the same time.
It's a complete opposite.
Emotions. One day, brilliant, next day.
Why am I doing this?
My weakest discipline is definitely running.
I do train hard.
I do find it quite tough to train hard.
Just with work commitments, family commitments.
And also, I do have a commitment to, the pint drinking in life.
That makes it even harder, but I'm overall looking forward to it.
Really excited.
The biggest weakness
would be the swim, but Swansea's in a
locked in bay so it's nice.
It's nice.
There's no currents, there's no waves.
There was a small jellyfish last time.
Then my strength,
my biggest strength would be the cycling.
I love hills, I love chewing up the hills
and then I’m comfortable with the run at the end.
The run is along the beach front so it's nice and flat.
There's nothing to fear for the run.
It's the bike.
The bike's got some gnarly hills in it that's going to
require some mental resilience.
So I've got a wide range.
I like challenging myself for challenge events.
I've done mountain marathons, lots of different marathons
around the world, and then I just wanted to challenge myself to next level.
After completing the marathon distances and setting personal bests
at that distance, I moved on to triathlon as I felt
was like the next challenge and then ultimately doing a full Ironman.
I've done all the distances from Super Sprint all the way up to the full
Ironman distance and lots of different locations.
Lots of different from sea swims, lake swims, river swims and it's
yeah, each has got their own strengths, always got their own weaknesses.
So Stuart, explain what happened?
Well, you beat me on the swim easily.
I closed it in on the transition and then on the bike, I hunted you down.
Got ya.
Surprised you hung on to me.
I stuck with him.
But then.
And then I died at the end of last lap.
Last lap, he left me and I couldn't find him on the run. So well done mate. 2-1.
2-1.
Go Joyce.
I'm riddled with worries
and anxieties and I have no choice but to train hard.
I don't really have a strength.
I mean, like I said, I did a 10k before, but running is definitely
not my favorite thing. I find it really hard.
I really enjoy swimming,
but I haven't done much open water swimming, so that's going
to be a bit of a challenge.
And then cycling again, like I really enjoy cycling,
but what we're about to do is very different to,
you know, poodling around when you've hired bikes on holiday.
So it's all, all the challenge.
I think one of the big things in motivation
is not trying to bite off more than you can chew.
And I like to view it as all of these small little steps
will get you there in the end.
So if I'm trying to go out and train and thinking of the event at the end,
I would get overwhelmed.
So just try and take each, part
as a small step towards the end goal.
I have, an eight year old daughter
who I, you know, really want to be a good role model for naturally.
And recently she said to me, well, mummy, I'm really impressed with your commitment
to this.
And so things like that do really, keep me going
and being able to demonstrate to her that something you think
you might not ever be able to do that if you put your mind to it
Hopefully I can prove to her that it is possible
Smashing it.
The Irish are taking over!
You made it.
Yeah.
I thought I’d done better in the swim to be honest.
Bike was good, until my chain came off.
Nice venue, super nice venue.
Enjoyed it. Cheers boys, thank you.
Yeah, I do have quite a lot of worries and anxieties and
and something that rises to me as well is that I struggle with self-belief.
But I am going to train really, really hard.
I've got a training plan I'm going to be training with,
with Ray and the crew, which I'm quite excited about.
The thing with triathlon as well is you'll never master any particular thing
because you're trained in three disciplines.
So you, you tend to find that your strengths are balanced
across the whole three.
So it's quite hard and sometimes frustrating
when you want to be better at something because you can't
because you got to do all three.
But one thing that does really worry me a lot is the sea swim.
You know, I've never sea swam.
It does freak me out a little bit.
You can't control what's going to happen on the day as regards to the sea.
It could be an awful day.
Massive waves, you know, you can't control that.
So that does worry me quite a lot.
But, yeah, I'm going to give it a go.
(Sound of seagulls)
Here we are at Salty Sea Dog. We've got Chelsea.
Chelsea, give us a wave.
Lee, give us a wave. There’s Suzanne, the great supporter.
Cindy, give us a wave.
Mike. Stuart. Give us a wave, guys.
How are you feeling? So, everyone. Chelsea, we start with you.
How are you feeling?
Yeah. Pretty good actually.
Excited to be at the beach.
Swam in the choppy ocean before? No? - No, not choppy!
Excited for it.
Get it done. Good training for Swansea.
Well done mate.
How are you feeling?
Good. Ready to swim through a tsunami.
My belly's going woo.
Go on Chelsea.
One hundrfed percent, I'll be training hard for ironman.
We've got plenty of time to train hard.
My anxieties,
I think our worries would be the swimming.
And for me, that is the hardest discipline.
Purely because, you know, if you
don't breathe
properly whilst you're out, you know, you've got a 1.9km swim.
And if you don't breathe properly, you could ultimately die.
So that is something that always sticks
in the back of my mind and something that I need to overcome
as my worries and my anxieties, which I'm taking swimming lessons for.
At the moment, my strength, I would say 100% is my running.
I do like running.
It's, I like to get out in the mornings, before anyone's pretty much away.
You come up at 5 a.m., out at six.
Being enrolled in events helps me keep.
Keep focused.
You know, when you wake up in the morning, it's cold, wet,
dark grey, miserable.
You know, you've got an event coming up, you know,
that you've got to train, you know, you have to get on with it.
And for me, being sort of hyper focused once I've got an event or something
coming up, I think it's important
that for me, when I do that event,
I've got no excuses at the end that I didn't get up and train.
(The sound of waves)
So I actually come from a motocross background.
That is my main hobby, and I've been doing that for 19 years.
I decided I wanted to try something a bit different.
I love a challenge, so
I usually always have a challenge on the go at the same time as racing.
Things I've done in the past.
So climb Mount Kilimanjaro.
I ran London Marathon even though I do not really like running.
And then I needed a new challenge,
and I saw the half Ironman.
I did my first one last year, which wasn't the official half Ironman.
But it was the same distance, and I did it because I couldn't really swim.
Never even put my head in the water before.
I always used to swim with it out.
I had never even been on a road pushbike before.
I just have my mountain bike and I wasn't.
and still not that great at running.
So I thought, yeah, sounds great challenge.
Can't do it. I'm going to do it.
So when I first heard from Ray,
I thought it was an amazing idea to do such a big challenge.
But as a group, the thing I found really hard last year was training alone.
So I thought in a group environment where people can encourage each other,
it was it was excellent. Genius.
And I was in!
(Sound of the waves and lots of cheers and whoops)
First excitement
and then started shitting it basically,
especially when I saw how many hills are involved in the cycling route.
And then it's been constant fear slash excitement throughout
It’s Sunday.
But no, actually I really enjoyed it.
It was a good I really enjoyed it.
But the current, it was just pushing us back and pushing us back.
It was, mad. Trying to breathwith the waves was crazy, first sea-swim; done!
We did it, smashed it.
I was wondering where the boat was going!
We didn’t know
So set off and got into the water - pretty cold and choppy.
I was swimming with Mike for a bit, actually we were breaststroking in
because it was a bit tough to get to the first buoy
I realised it was actually a bit bit too tough.
Started to look around me.
I thought it’s hard work and
you know, a bit slow here, but I'll just keep persevering.
This is taking a long time.
It's choppy.
It's hard work.
I could see the buoy just about in the distance,
but it just keeps disappearing.
And I just thought, what the hell?
I kept looking at my watch.
And a half an hour went by.
I still was no where near the buoy that I needed to get to.
Absolutely nowwhere near. Kept battling through.
Felt really sick.
Really, disorientated, kept looking up, didn't know what I was doing.
Powered on through for an hour; an hour!
Went by and I was still not getting to that bhoy.
And it was just getting further away, hoping that someone would see me
and come rescue me.
But, you know, no one did.
I'm a hand up for what felt like ages.
Looking around, I couldn't even see a boat, couldn't see anyone.
Had a little cry. Dug deep.
Thought, okay, I just need to get to that buoy
I need to get to that buoy so that the current can take me.
Someone saw me and that boat came whizzing over and hauled me in.
And then got me back to shore. But you know what?
I really feared for my life that day, I really did.
I dug deep and yeah, I can't believe I actually covered.
I watched that I covered 3000m
in that swim for an hour, was battling against those waves.
So yeah, really challenging.
In hot water again
I was hoping to to come maybe second - Where did you come in the end?
I think third.
Third, I think that’s what the women were saying, we’ll see.
As long as a I beat Ray.
That's all I care about.
Well done Faye.
That was evil!
That was evil! - - I recognised that front crawl.
You did really well.
Yeah. We did it though.
Well done Ray.
It's probably the hardest thing I've ever done.
Genuinely. Really?
Not really fitness wise, but mentally.
Definitely felt like we were going nowhere.
Think I was in there for an hour and a half
Got cold near the end.
Yeah. Just.
Yeah. Well, done to the guys out in the kayaks.
No, I saw off them coming at me at one stage and he was up here,
and that's where kinda
maybe this sea swimming isn't for me.
How do you find that, mate? It was disgusting.
There's one point when I thought I was in a riptide
because you being the buoy wasn't getting any bigger.
And then the kayak had to come over and guide me onto the buoy
because I was swimming off into the channel.
Lee?
I found it quite easy
to be honest.
But, you know, I just took it in my stride
I was in the water for about
I don’t know, about eight minutes there or there abouts. First out and won the race.
And fair play mate for making that decision.
It was not an easy swim.
Hardest thing I've ever done.
Joyce how did you find it?
Well, I also got out of there.
The current was against me basically.
And like I said, I was very pleased that I got in.
Well done, Joyce.
Bye guys.
How did you find that mate?
Really hard.
But in a weird way, loved it.
In a sick way.
Well done, Faye
Hannah, did you win?
I came fifth.
Fifth? Bloody hell.
I think and hour and six minutes.
I hated it.
So this year, I am training a lot harder than for my last triathlon.
Been really pushing it in my running, in my cycling.
And also my swimming.
Just a lot more hours dedicated.
I feel most confidence with the swimming.
I had to learn how to swim last year, and from there
it seems to have gone from strength to strength. And I'm feeling good.
I'm feeling really good about the swim. My worries, and my fear of the cycling
and running, which annoyingly, are a lot longer than the swimming on the day.
But I know that I'm just going to keep pushing through
and I'll be able to do it, but that’s definitely my fear.
So the motivation for me
to carry on doing all my training, especially more so
when I've managed to get out the door and what gets me out the door.
And when I'm doing a run and I feel like I just want to stop
and it's horrible, but, you know, you've got hours more to do.
I think about, my two friends who are very poorly at the moment.
Both of them have terminal cancer.
And I just know that whatever hard,
however hard it is, this run and however I'm feeling, I know
that it will never be as hard as what they have to go through to keep going.
So that motivation pushes me through to know
that if they can do what they do, I can carry on and finish what I'm doing.
(Rock Music Playing)
Ray?
How many laps?
Go on Cindy.
How’s it going?
It's tough.
I'm getting there.
Walk up the hills and then run.
That's my, thing for today - - Tremendous.
I’m getting there
Just on my second lap.
So, for my third, I make sure I ‘ll look really super cool.
Brilliant. Cheers. See you in a bit.
(Rock Music Playing)
Two more laps. This one and one more.
Stuart’s up ahead
Don’t think I’m going to catch him.
(Rock Music Playing)
(Noise of the airplane engines)
Thank you so much.
Cindy has finished it
And Chelsea. They skipped the swim today because it's a bit dirty, the Thames.
So a du-athlon!
They made it a du-athlon.
How did you girls find it?
Yeah. It's good, I enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it, too.
I enjoyed the cycling.
Get a bit closer
But the run was very hard with the hill, going up that hill three times.
I had to walk a couple of times up the hill.
Then we did the Salty Sea Dog yesterday as well.
That was really tough.
And so the score with me and Stuart.
It was one nil, to him
cos he done me at Reading and then I pulled it back at Bracknell.
Then he took the lead on Blenheim, 2-1
And then I got him yesterday, made it 2-2
Now he's taken the lead, so 3-2
But how did you find it?
It was great. I was fearful for the cycle.
There was nowhere near as bad as I expected - I expected it it to be this bad.
And it was just bad! But it was fun.
Yeah, it got some good speed down the hills and the run’s fun.
The runs pretty iconic.
Stuart get some extra praise today as well because his dog
unfortunately died yesterday.
So somewhere up south we'll celebrate, have a beer.
Celebrate the Salty Sea Dog
Fair play to you mate for doing it
That’s hard - - I was going to pull out, but
You knew not to!
It was tough
The swim obviously for me it was really hard
and definitely left a few demons in that river.
How did you find the bike ride?
I enjoyed the bike.
But then the run was, tricky at the end.
Not too bad, actually.
Yeah, and,
to be honest, I ride around there a lot
anyway, so I was kind of used to it.
Yeah, yeah, I gave everything.
Anyway - - Well done!
I just got back from the orthopedic surgeon,
Princess Margaret Hospital, Windsor.
I had a scan on my left knee on Monday,
and the news is, you know, less than ideal.
I've got a double tear of the meniscus, which needs imminent surgery,
four to six weeks on crutches,
and then about three month, recovery period.
That's what they say. We'll see about that.
That's going to put me off the start line in Swansea.
But we'll be cheering the guys and girls on, from wherever I am hobbling about,
because they put some serious effort in,
some serious training, and I wish them all the best.
Pembrokeshire, full distance ironman
in September, that's my sole focus now.
The little bit of training
I can do, in the lead up to that in recovery, swimming.
So that's my weakest discipline.
And that's what I'll be focusing on.
Hopefully I can then identify in 2024 as a fish.
So, yeah, first time ever, today
Three years, I've done events,
multiple ironmans and, multiple
triathlons, like tens of dozens.
And I've never not done an event.
And I'm here today to spectate, Lee, Chelsea, and Faye.
And it's just bizarre that I'm not doing it.
First time ever. So.
I'm actually glad.
I'm actually glad I'm not doing it.
Yes!
I’m happy I’m not doing it. Take back what I said and cut all that out of the film.
I'm glad tI’m not doing it, that medal is s***
Can I just say that, medal is s***. Have you seen it?
We've just filmed it.
It’s not wooden is it?
For those that don't know, Lee hates wooden medals.
Absolutely hate them.
They're just a nightmare
to do all that hard work and get a piece of wood at the end of it.
Pointless.
Cindy, what do you think of wooden medals? - - I don't mind them!
But yeah, it's not bloody hard work for a bit of wood.
Faye, what do you think of wooden medals?
Yeah, I like them. Save the turtles!
Chelsea, wooden medals?
You’re talking to a banana?
How are you feeling? Nervous.
Yeah, I excited.
What are you most nervous about at the moment?
Run. Yeah, yeah, I had a bit of a cold this week, but feeling better than I was.
Get it finished.
Eight laps before you come back in transition,
you'll be dismounting at the line where the marshall will be.
(Dramatic and suspensful music playing)
The athletes have just set off
We’ve got Chelsea, Cindy, Lee, and Faye.
They’ve got to come round and go again.
Have a look.
(Dramatic Music Playing)
Well done - - Yeah
How was it? - - It was tough, man.
Overall, I quite enjoyed it.
That last...
last lap for the second half of the last lap.
It's quite tough.
But then
I think I was just getting to the end.
I started seeing people that were overtaking me,
and then I was overtaking them, and it gave me a bit of... a bit of energy
to smash through.
So what did you do?
You showed a lot today mate - - No, not today.
We were together the whole time. Yeah.
Pretty much. Yeah.
So funny!
(Laughter)
Well done, mate.
I liked it weirdly.
I quite liked the laps, actually.
No, I’m pleased with that.
You looked strong, mate. You looked strong.
You looked good on the bike.
You looked good on the swim
And you’re run was good.
I thought you were consistent.
I was faster than I thought I was going to do.
It was mentally challenging with the laps and no support.
Very good training around all our hard work.
What was your most favourite bit?
Oh, the bike.
The first bit of the bike.
The first 20k
Least favourite? - -The run
Hanging in there. It's brutally hard going up an down.
I got a bit freaked out in the swim initially because all the people kicking
and stuff like that. And it reminded me.
It just reminded me of last week.
It weren’t too bad. The swim was okay.
It was all right.
Not too bad at all, actually.
Then the cycle
which was a bit on and on on. Off the count, I think I did eight laps and then the run
my legs are absolutely fine.
Just a little bit of up here,
which made it just sort of feel longer. Wow.
I'm bloody Olympic triathlon. I've done it.
Oh. Massively, massively.
I could do a couple actually
It's so big
Yeah, absolutely.
I need to make sure I rest properly.
That's the key for me.
(The sound of bike engines)
Woah!
Hello.
So this is day two of being in the hospital.
I had a crash racing motocross on Sunday.
Three weeks out from the main event.
Sadly, it was a big crash.
From what I can remember.
we hit a bump
really fast,
and the wheel got stuck in it.
It was a really rough track as well.
I say bump, it was more of a ditch
which put us into the posts.
I think
the posts put the bike to a dead stop,
which flipped us both off.
I landed, I think, I don't know, because I don't know.
I've got this on my head.
Maybe head, but ended somehow on my knees.
I'm not sure if it was the impact of this.
That was my injury.
I believe that the bike then bounced in the air twice
and hit my back pelvis.
I don't remember much.
Just being in excruciating pain where,
the ambulance people rushed down to me and I couldn't move.
They administered morphine straight
away, and,
took the edge off a little bit,
but I had quite a lot,
they called the air ambulance,
pretty immediately to check me out.
So I had my surgery today.
The next morning.
I think it took about six hours.
What's happened is I have multiple fractures
that they've had to piece put together, but the worst bit
was that,
it was completely snapped in half.
So the front of the pelvis was separated
and the back of the pelvis was overlapping.
That was the worst pain.
So I had to lie on that.
I can't believe I'm
lying flat.
Now, and obviously it was loose,
so, I couldn't move very much.
They have now screwed it all back together.
In the surgery, realigned it.
They had to realign it all.
They said it was, very significant damage, but luckily
they believe they could fix it easily as it wasn't too, out of line.
But they think it'll really help, and they're positive
that I will be able to compete,
in triathlons again.
I'm really happy.
And yeah, my plan is to take my time to recover,
and, next year, I want to.
I will, get signed off
and to start my training for an ironman.
Yeah. Oh, is that the wrong way?
(Laughs)
(Sad Music Playing)
(Dance Music Playing)
So, training bike requires
even a raw bike is not stopping me.
(Dance Music Playing)
Three weeks out
Ironman, Swansea
Three weeks today.
Feeling good
Body is feeling strong
Confidence is high
Absolutely buzzing.
(Sound of retching)
(Dance Music Playing)
So we're here.
We've arrived in Swansea.
Got us moany baby. Look!
(Sound of baby crying)
IHe was good on the way up in the car.
Hannah, how was your drive?
Fantastic! Yeah, mostly. Had to go for a wee.
How was your sleep on the way up?
Lovely, lovely.
It's a really good question.
I had to look a lot to try and find the perfect word,
to explain why I am particularly in this stage of life, really
And the word that I chose was ignite.
And what I mean by ignite was to it was to ignite the fire in my belly,
ignite the self-belief, ignite the self-motivation as well.
You know, at my age, life can be a bit boring.
So I need, you know, we need that fire in our belly.
So ignite, is a perfect word.
So I have two words.
The first one is belief.
And that is because I truly believe that,
if I put the training in, then I can achieve amazing things.
I've proven that to myself in the past, so I truly believe
now that that is what can happen.
The other word is trust.
So I trust myself.
I trust that I will do the training,
and I trust that I will show up the best that I can on the day.
And that's ultimately what I've chosen, that word.
My word would be focussed
The reason being is anything that I put my mind to, I have to focus on it.
And when I focus on it, I focus hard
and without focus, there is no purpose.
My word I would choose would be cheerfulness.
I think it's,
in any event, if you can, if you're when you're suffering
and despairs of what pain and suffering you can think back to your funny moment.
It can carry you through any, any difficult moment.
And it carries on to any moment in life.
Consistency. You need to be consistent.
You have to be. This is a hard, hard, hard game like triathlons are difficult.
It's three disciplines.
So I have to be consistent because if I'm not consistent,
I won't get through with diet, with training, especially with training,
especially with the discipline that you’re the weakest at.
So consistency would be the word I would use.
It's definitely team. I do I truly think even though
triathlon is a very individual sport, in the group that we're in, it's
always nice to have someone with you, someone behind you,
someone in front of you,
someone to keep you driving forward, someone to make you enter events,
someone to make you better than the person that I was last year.
So yeah, one word is team.
The one word that I would choose would be privilege.
Because
I think, you know, I am very privileged to be able to do this.
There are lots of people in different positions,
around the world who would love to have the opportunity.
And I get to do it.
And I have to remind myself that that is a privilege.
So we're just in a fancy, family owned Italian restaurant.
It's got garlic bread. Margarita.
There's RJ. Let’s have a little munch - -Hello!
I am going to order spaghetti carbonara and I'm not going to have a beer
I've decided
What have you ordered? - - Carbonara
What food you got? What food you ordered?
Erm. I don’t know.
(Dramatic Music Playing)
It's 4:18 a.m..
It is July 14th.
Game day for Ironman, so...
See how today goes!
(Gentle Music Playing)
I think I will finish.
I think I will have to drag myself over that finish line.
I can't really give you a time, I really can't.
I know there is a cutoff time, but all I can say is that
I want that person that's blowing the whistle saying,
you need to speed up because we're going to have to pull you out.
I want that person to be as far away from me as possible.
I will drag myself over that finish line.
I've learned that training and the right training makes it easier.
Not that I'm easy at all, but I really do hope so.
I really want to achieve this.
I know I'll finish the Ironman.
I believe in it.
I trust myself to achieve it
if I get inside the cut off time
Amazing.
One hundred percent
I'll cross it. Whether I'm crawling across it or I'm running across it.
Either way, I'm going to be crossing it. In terms of time, I would like to think
that I'm going to be sub seven
or sub six hours there or thereabouts.
But for me I'd just be happy for finishing it as the first half Ironman.
Come on Lee
Come on my Mike
The first Iron Man together. It was.
There was lots of fear, excitement, apprehension.
It was.
That was the first time we were covered that distance.
So we were like unknown if we were going to reach it
or achieve it
Ray had doubts and he reached out this message that you're going to send me sent.
He's going to quit.
And yeah, we were really unsure if we were going to be able to achieve it.
So part of me was glad
that we both made it to the finish line and achieved it.
And then another part of me was like, damn, he’s really smashed me and put me in my place.
It
did contribute to me wanting to catch up with him
and close that gap and try and beat him next year.
I'm going to finish it.
I’m going to make sure that I get to the end and I run through that finish line.
I'm going to hopefully do it in
seven hours, maybe 7.5 hours.
I've just given myself a bit extra for the bike because I'm a little bit
slower on the bike, especially when there's lots of hills,
which I know there's going to be, but I'm going to absolutely smash it.
I'm just going to do what I always do.
I'm just going to think of my kids,
and I'm going to think of the beer at the pub at the end.
Also, I feel like that
this to me is going to be an Ironman because it got taken for me.
It was robbed for me the year before
because they cancelled the swim because of some lightning.
So we weren't able to do the swim.
So unfortunately, we weren't able to do it.
So I'm going to smash this ironman for sure.
I really hope I finish with the amount of training
that we're all going to put in between now and July.
I hope for sure that it pays off.
And I hope that on the day I will give it everything I can to make it pay off.
But I'm
also very aware of the fact that it's the first time I've done anything like it.
So honestly, if I came in in eight hours, 29 minutes, 59 seconds
and just make it, I would be very happy with that.
I did hear that it was one of the toughest in the ironman calendar.
That's why I chose this really as my second one
particularly the sea swim.
It's going to be hilly because we’re in Wales and Wales is simply hilly.
I think my time hopefully 6.5 hours,
but I'd be happy to win anything within six and a half and seven hours.
Cheers to that.
(Dramatic Classical Music Playing)
(Slow Music Playing)
The legs are sore
Yeah, my legs are sore.
We finished. Well done on the filming
How does it feel? - - Yeah, I feel good, I feel good.
Stuart. Stuart.
Well done today - - Thank you, thank you.
So, me and Stuart
So on the swim I was in front of Stu, I started a little bit before him.
You good? On the bike I was near the end and then Stuart caught up with me
and then we decided to stick together on the run.
We called it a truce on our back and forth
who wins and we just stuck together on the run.
So a nice way to end on.
(Cheers and whoops)
So let's just break down what happened on your event.
Let's talk about it.
So basically
she's a bit emotional. She was one mile in on the bike.
Got a f****** puncture which is a nightmare.
I'm gonna have to change this film now
with me swearing.
And then she had to wait for 20 minutes for someone to come fix her
Three lads asked if she was alright
And they stopped. Done her inner tube, fixed her.
And she actually finished the bike
but was nine minutes short on the run because she had to wait 20 minutes
for someone to come fix her.
So she just got unlucky - - Yeah.
So we've decided
well, she's decided, but Cindy more so,
and she’s going to come and chat now.
They're going to do Iron Man Weymouth in September.
So it's another six weeks now.
No more filming for you.
It just be a picture of them finishing it
It's a kind of redemption.
You know what? I loved every minute of it.
I loved the swim
it's actually amazing how the bike.
Yeah, didn’t really want the hills, but I did the hills.
But I just missed the run cut off by about a minute.
But I’d already decided that I wasn't going to do the run anyway, because I knew
I could just feel the effects of Covid.
So I just thought, I'm not going to do the run, that’s fine
Here’s Chelsi
(Cheers)
Are you alright? - - Yeah
The swim I loved actually, I loved the swim, although I got kicked it a few times.
Bike was very, very hilly
I hated the run.
I enjoyed the swim
I felt good in the swim
He smashed it, he’s super fit and we got it towards the end of the season.
A bit like competitive but all jokes aside, he is an animal.
It proper went for it.
and he was coming for me when he saw me on the run.
He was like excited. I was like f***! And he was like f****** hell
it was good.
54 seconds I lost
But a win’s a win - - It is a win. A win is a win.
But we shook hands.
He's a beast.
It was a good event I enjoyed it.
The bike was hilly as hell.
It was a tough bike ride. To be fair.
I was cursing Cindy.
She told me it was five percent gradient
Can I just say he beat me on the bike as well
He is a monster.
They were tough hills
They were really hard
I, I found it really difficult, especially with the hills.
Oh, yeah, Swansea's really hard.
There's lots of hills. The bike was really, really hard.
And then there was like a loop.
So you had to do, like two lots of hills, the same ones which were evil. So.
But I'm glad I'm done.
I did find it really, really hard.
I found the run quite difficult as well.
But I can get my tattoo now.
I've done a half ironman, I'm happy, I can retire.
I enjoyed it.
I did enjoy it. Definitely need to improve my running.
I've said this from the very start, I need to improve my running
I need to start training a bit more for running and stuff
But yeah, definitely it. Thank you for the support and all that
Thank you for videoing as well.
We appreciate it. But no it's been good.
And now, back to the beers - - I loved the swimming
Enjoy the bike? What do you find the hardest
Just the run. The last ten kilometers
I had it last year, this is not my first time.
I did Staffordshire last year and the last ten kilometers of the run just
I got a pain down here
and it's not an excuse but you can’t fight through it
I was literally like this, I was like jumping over.
Mike's a secret beast.
Cheers.
Cheers, guys.
Oh, man.
football's coming home
England!
England