you out of the water.” When you’re trying to focus on swimming for 10, 12 or 16 hours - which is what it took in the end - somebody being able to take it out of your control and stop it became really challenging. After around ten hours I just said

Captain Simon Powers was first bitten by the triathlon bug when he was posted to Cyprus with the Royal Logistic Corps. Six Ironman races later, he’s stepping up to the challenge of a lifetime on June 2 – The Battle Back 1000.Captain Powers will take

the money goes to charity. Two places are auctioned, but they can go for anything up to $60,000. What’s your goal in Hawaii?I would love to beat my time from 1987. At Ironman Switzerland last year I beat that time by 20 minutes so I’m hopeful that I can do

sessions, I do one long run of around 32K (around 2:15), with 8x1K efforts, and a longer tempo run to finish off; then I do two interval sessions – one with 800-1600m (faster than race-pace reps) with shortish recovery and the second interval session