'it is dangerous to fall asleep on the cycle'

I have lent my copy of this months 220 to Si but the quote from an experienced participant in the deca ironman was something like that in my blog title.

A Deca Iron man is 10 x Ironman distances; that is:

• 24 mile swim
• 1120 mile cycle
• 262 mile run

from the reading I have done participants usually have 14 days to do the event; which the writer of the article in 220 broke down, I recall, as one day for the swim and 6 days each for cycle and run.

Why was I reading this? No, Julie I am not stupid enough to think I could do this, but it is amazing the first of these events in the UK will be held in Fowey, Cornwall. Out of curiosity I logged onto the website http://www.enduroman.com/decaironuk.html and will leave with the following for now...

• Only 12 days allowed for this event
• Swim is in pool, circa 1,600 lengths
• Cycle is laps of 187 miles (a day)
• Run is 52 miles (a day)
• A day = 21 hours maximum (yes, they stipulate '21 hours cut off')
• The max entrants = 24; 5 people have entered so far.

P.S. just reading the training regime of the person who wrote the article for 220 was sufficient to leave me feeling very very tired... Awesome.