I’m up for this, anything to help guide this ageing body is welcome.

@Alan Cardwell 🤣🤣

Anyone come across Handsling Bikes, UK company and they seem to have good pricing considering you get custom build (components not frame). Looking at their TSTRevo ones.

@Zoe Newsam Had a call with them this morning and sending me some more info. Really tempted to go with them, have been very good at asking for fit data before recommending bike and even mocked up the frame and cockpit with my settings to show me. Aim to make final decision early next week. Between then and Canyon.

I have just found an easy way for me to get pacing feedback through my watch. I have started adding my session on Garmin Connect and you can set a target pace (I use the Intensity target for each set and then set the CSS based pace one according to what I should be hitting for that set). What happens is that it knows what you should be doing each 25m in and vibrates and beeps at that time interval, so I swim as normal and can tell by when it vibrates and beeps if I am on pace. Only found this out this week, but already helped me better pace my sets (My easy ones were not as easy as they were meant to be, and my harder ones I am getting more even pacing). I am using a Garmin Forerunner 965 not sure is all have this. The pain is that you cannot set for sessions loaded from training peaks, you have to build session in Connect only. But is a good way to help with pacing.

@Max McFarlane yep that’s what I do. Not sure if it works if you use the target pace choice but I thought the CSS based one better as works for sessions when you get fitter and faster and pacing automatically changed once you update your CSS.

Bring up controls, normally at middle bottom of screen and choose the pause button. You can just stop but workout keeps going time wise.

Having been involved in the sport for many years, IM used to be a focus for those wanting to push themselves over that distance. Then VC's got involved, and it has become about cash and ROI for them, not what it was originally, and certainly not appealing to me. This year, I will take on my first Iron distance event and have chosen Outlaw, as I deliberately didn't want to spend a fortune on an IM event and feed the corporate beast that it has become. That is just what works for me, and I do understand that IM does play a role for many in the sport, and its reach is significant, but I am not sure it is truly extending the sport to new people (just those that can afford it). I hope that the smaller local events can survive, as they are the true heart and soul of the sport.