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Wow that was tough 3 days.. hadn't really understood the 336 miles included 7672 meters of climbing before starting.
The continual rain of day one meant I had to push harder than I planned just to stay warm.
The continual wind of day two meant I was blown all over the place and couldn't bring my aerowheels into play on the flatter stage, blewup halfway and pedalled squares home.
Day three was brutal continual up and down through exmoor, picked up a fast group and hammered it home until 5 miles from the finish line when I had a double blowout from drawing pins left unhelpfully scattered on the course. Thankfully a friendly triathlete threw me a long value inner tube to get me home.
Great event, thankgod I never have to do it again.