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I ran a load of the marathon route yesterday - Tower Bridge to Battersea along the South bank, and then back on the North bank.

25k in the same time the girls took to run 42k.

4th Olympic gold for Ainslie.

Nice one.

Except for the douchebag Fin that just took his wind.

Ainslie looking good for gold in the sailing at the moment.

3,000m steeplechase

where was Lesley Garrett?
Being serviced by Paul Mcartney.

Frog chorus style.

just bring the bike in s/s, then flip the hub in transition.
But a new cog means having to build a brand new bike around it.

Ok.

Triathlon is expensive- I can see why it is the mid-life crisis sport of choice.

200 notes on a wetsuit, whatever on a TT bike (although if the course is flat I might use my fixed, which is set up for TTing), I'm assuming some sort of sleeveless undergarment/short combo also?

100 notes on a wetsuit will see you good.

No fixed allowed in tri - s/s only, with 2 brakes.

That's a lovely offer- but aren't you grossly fat?

77kg for me on the scales this morning- similar?
I don't do scales.

I'm probably a husky 80kg though.

The urban fox is probably too lazy to go for live chickens in a half decent run. There's probably a KFC in a bin that's an easier hit. I live out of London so have enough space now but in a suburban area; our neigbours haven't seen a fox in 35 years. Obviously this does not mean they aren't around somewhere.

In the real countryside, the fox is hungrier, fitter, smarter, dedicated to the cause. In the end, it will get in.

Urban foxes carry knives.

They will bare fuck chickens up, blud.

Jes Ennis is about to make me blub.

BOOOOOOOM!!!

Fantastic result.

This is going to be a faaaast finish.

The Ethiopians have got something dodgy planned.

You can try mine for size.

Ocean Leisure is a good place to try them on too.

A lot of lakes (Leybourne / Heron) allow you to rent / borrow.

This is Tim's best olympics ever.

COME ON TIM!!

The long jump, ffs.

Fucking aces.

And now a gold in the long jump.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

I am utterly loving the sports today.

Not even the shiity commentating, grotesque commercialism, and dodgy camera work can put me off.

I know there's no definite answer to this, but what roughly is a good time to do 1500m of crawl in a 25m pool (i.e., 60 lengths)? As some sort of comparison, you could say that doing a century on a bike at around 18mph is good.

I've started swimming more recently and am trying to improve my technique. I'm really fit on a bike, but I don't seem to be able to swim particularly fast at the moment and would like to have something to aim for.

I've watched a few short technique videos and am trying to put them into practice. To add to those, does anyone have any real generic crawl tips that may help?
Swimsmooth.com gives good guidance.

(It's all swimsmooth or total immersion these days.)

Catch-up drills and finger drag drills are good for technique.

A good benchmark for anything I do it to take the world record and double it - So 29 minutes for 1,500m,

everyone's a triathlete these days.
It's depraved.

Tooting Bec lido, on the other hand, is brass monkeys (for us normal folk, that is), and I would swim with a wetty on there.

Cav looked gutted

He did, didn't he? Shall we chip in and get him a big medal?
It's like it's everyone else's birthday but his.

Poor Cav. We should get him a cake, not a medal.

WR!

Utterly destroyed them.

Awesome ride.

2.3s up!