trip home

Adam and heather finished together and had some falling out at the line. Rob took a water bottle full of gels instead of what he wanted got an upset stomach and didn’t finish. To top it all off the airline lost his bike on the way home.

We went to the roll down. Everyone doing the post race ironman shuffle. I was 31st in my age group and hadn’t made the top 200 hundred . The standard was that high.

We had a few beers back at the campsite and a german woman came over and complained that we were cutting through her pitch on the way to the toilets instead of walking the extra 100 metres around. This amused ben no end. Who , during the course of the evening goose stepped passed her pitch whistling the tune to the great escape and with both arms out stretched and making a plane noise he hummed the tune to the dam busters. ‘what ez it with zee british u always must mention zee war’ lol

when in rome. We started the long drive home. Got lost and drove the whole length of germany. Turned out ok as we missed all the tolls through france and saved 150 euros. Made it to the tunnel where I got my interview for no passport. They were ok with it and 20 mins a few forms and much goading from ben about rubber gloves we were on the train back to britain. Job done