Quote Originally Posted by GeoffB View Post
I remember talking to a bloke at Wasdale last year who'd recently done a triathlon (Canary Islands or somewhere, maybe?). He was pretty young and looked fit enough, but he was timed out at Seatallan (I think). Said he found the hills really hard (and the real hills hadn't even started by then).
I spoke to an Ironman at the start of the 2008 Great Lakes Fell Race. He pulled out around the second checkpoint; bitten off more than he could chew...