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Well done @Sainsburys_Ed, Mrs @T-V and of course @ewanmac :)
Ewan, I did hear you on the run, thanks! I also saw you on the bike but made a sound like a pigeon cooing and luckily no one at all heard it. I checked your times, nice! How did you find it? You looked fast!
I had a pretty torrid time: panicked at the start of the swim and only got into it in the last 400 metres; felt really weak and feeble on the bike, which meant I was SLOW (I'm actually shocked at how slow); the run was just a disaster, felt pretty awful but at about 9k I found some (actually nice!) toilets and was horrified at how I looked - deathly white. My mum saw me about 1k later and was so concerned about me that she decided not to tell me that my brother had DNF'd due to a mechanical as she thought I might stop too. Transitions were megalols, T2 especially as some dickwad had put their stuff all over my stuff and I was convinced my rack was somewhere else so wandered about for a while.
In my defence I've not trained at all. Today was the first time I swam 1.9k and the 2nd time I've swum in open water, and I've barely cycled/run for over a month due to new job/new house/new city/etc. I feel awful that my brother got the mechanical and not me. He'd trained and was on track for a good time - I feel like I barely deserve my medal.
Lots to learn I guess. I'll do a proper write up when I'm feeling less tired and self-critical.