By Vince on 26/06/2007 12:28

So the organizers tout the UK 70.3 race as the ‘Hardest half ironman in the world’.

I thought, yeah, yeah, whatever, how hard can it be?  I just finished Ironman Lanzarote for chrissakes.  Well, I don’t know if it’s the hardest, but it definitely smashed me up plenty.

There were quite a few Ful-on folk at this race, I know that John Rawlins was particularly focused on putting a hurtlock on his age group and a bit of friendly smack talk the previous week let me know he was gunning for me as well.

My race crew on this trip consisted of my lovely lady wife, Caroline, my pal Sam, and his soon to be betrothed, Muireann.  The Leo unit was relieved from support duty and left with his more than willing grandparents.

So here’s the first tip, the M4, M5 route down to Exmoor is all kinds of rubbish and mere mention of this route to those in the know (possibly everyone down at the race) was met with head shaking, laughter and ‘Here’s what you should’ve done…’.  7 hours in traffic was simply delightful...

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