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...and I seem to recall that they don't allow fixed wheels.
I've done it twice (as part of a team on the olympic distance, as I'm crap and swimming and running) and was much faster on ss than I'd been the previous time on gears. The course they used (and maybe still do) down in docklands has a flyover where the gearies slow right down as they crunch through their cassettes and it's a laugh whizzing past them. On an 81" gear I was still OK on the flat.