Ironman Bolton 70.3 2024 | FULL RACE VIDEO

Ironman Bolton 70.3 2024

WHAT A RACE. Soooo many things went wrong which I explain at the end but all in all I am so glad I chose to race Bolton this year. Loved (mostly) every second and got a massive PB

Thank you so much to all the support I’ve recieved from friends family and brands.

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See you next year?

[Music] all [Music] [Music] hello um so we have just got to Pennington flash which is the start of Bolton Iron Man 70.3 2024 it is 5 a.m. so we got a good hour and a half until the swim start hour and a half hour and 15 I need to get my bike set up still get my nutrition sorted make sure everything’s all good getting my wet suit and then yeah just patiently wait I’m feeling really excited for this race I think I’ve said that a thousand times already um throughout social media but it feels really nice to be racing back in Bolton again I’m really glad that I chose to do this race um in terms of time I’d love to get another sub six hour if I could beat my time from Mya that would be ideal but it’s not the most important thing today the most important thing today is for me to just enjoy it Embrace being able to have my friends and family around embrace the support from the crowd in Bolton yeah things I’m nervous for um getting a puncture potentially I’ve just swapped over to some fast tires so I’m a little bit nervous for that um nutrition I’m quite worried for in case I get any stomach issues but otherwise the day is looking perfect we’ve got amazing weather no wind which is nice and and everything’s just gone smoothly had a great day yesterday having a great morning this morning yeah all good I’ve upgraded the nutrition from last year last year I just had a whole bag of jelly babies and um about seven banana malt loafs I’ve got proper nutrition this year when I did mayorca I didn’t have the root on my garment on my garment on my Wahoo that’s not how you get to work with a brand is it when I did the uh route in muor I didn’t have the the route on my waho so I was scrambling around uh messing around with Mar Wahu the race St the race and yeah didn’t have the root for the entire thing which was quite frustrating so that’s staying like that this time uh okay I think that’s the bike all set up let’s go and see the bag now in the tent it’s going to be busy look how crumpled that is whoops the swim for me last year was awful it was really really bad um it was my first ever open water swim race experience and I just went into full-blown panic mode uh this year I feel a lot more prepared uh I feel like maybe I’m not going to have to breaststroke any of it hopefully oh I’m excited it’s gross but I’m excited oo that’s really fine actually that’s warm [Music] try not to fall goggles is a big issue for me I think I’m just going to put the full thing on [Music] now so we are walking back to transition because I forgot to put any Lube on my chain which is a mistake I’ve made in the past before so not today we’ve still got uh about 45 minutes before we start so still got loads of time this is why we came early because I knew that I would forget to do something or something would go wrong nothing’s gone wrong it’s only chain lube but this is why we come early and not late [Music] okay now now we are good to go we got just under 40 minutes until swim start so I’m just going to relax soak it all in hopefully say hi to some people and drink some water cuz I’ve not had any on Instagram told me to get in pen some flash when I asked you about did you get inen into a flash good what [Music] you am [Music] as well [Music] [Music] of [Music] I’ve just finished IM bow in 70.3 20 4 and as you can see I look like I’ve been dragged through a bush backwards um in general I loved the race so much uh the swim it was okay it wasn’t my best swim but it was nice and calm really enjoyed it and then it all went wrong when I got onto the bike so as soon as I left Pennington flash I went over a bump and it was slippy and I just lost control completely crashed into the side bumped my head I’m a bit scraped up um and I was going I was having a bit of a panic attack but some really lovely ladies helped me get back on and gave me a a little bit of pep talk and then the bike I just absolutely smashed the bike I’m so happy I did just under 3 hours which is what I was aiming for sub 3our bike and then felt really good going into the run I did have a little bit of a stomach issue but all was good I’ve ended with let me check of course into my watch 53838 which is a let me do some quick math 15 minute PB something like that from meca 6 weeks later so I’m absolutely over the moon lots of things went wrong but I’m absolutely ecstatic and couldn’t be happier