I made sure that i did my first "Ironman" as an actual Ironman branded event largely because i am slightly autistic i think and so if anyone asked me if i had "done an Ironman" i wouldn't have had to say "yes, sort of but it wasn't an actual Ironman, but it was just as far and just as hard, basically the same thing but not the same and no i'm not lying".

Any future ones i do might well not be the IM branding, but i'll consider them as the same thing. It won't matter then because i'm an "Ironman" anyway.

(and No i don't have a tattoo)