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2008 July Swiss Ironman.

SWIM    BIKE        RUN        OVERALL
1:22:41    6:46:41    5:11:59    13:40:26    - Billy
1:12:52    5:55:08    3:30:29    10:48:15    - Jon 

Jon Glyde -

Thanks for all the messages of support, really enjoyed ironman switzerland last weekend and its a race i would recommend.
Beautiful country side, zurich is a lovely city and the swiss people great.

Really pleased with my race, 10.48 is 45 mins quicker than Nice last year so really happy with that.
I was aiming for a sub 1.10 swim but lost a couple of minutes swimming wide on the course to avoid the scrum, it was a deep water mass start with no grading! Must say swim was better organised at Nice.

t1 and t2 were somewhat slow, it absolutely tipped it down so all our kit was in bags and the bikes covered with plastic sheets, so much for racing abroad to take bad weather out of the equation!

My bike stratigy was to maintain an average of 20mph to do a 6hr bike, did a 5.55 over what is really a hilly course where i had to taper my speed down hill because of the wet conditions, so really pleased with the sub 6hr bike.

Run plan was to beat my 3.32 marathon from Nice and ran a 3.30 so chuffed with that.

All in all really pleased with result but lots of learning for next year, plan to do Lanzarote IM, next year, according to 220 this month, its the worlds toughess so i plan to do that 1 and retire to a life of breeding vizslas and getting fat.

Highlights
Great cameradery travelling, staying and racing with five mates.
Really proud of billy delivering against his training plan and becoming an ironman
Driving to switzerland, although 670 miles was a lot easier and less stressful than flying with all our kit.
Taking 45 mins off my previous IM time.

Lowlights
The weather was really minging, first tri i have ever done in a coat! And i wasnt even warm on the climbs!

Lots more to add, but probably boring you stupid.  Jon