Still time to make the transition 
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Looks like Ironman have realised that T-shirt gate didn’t go well 
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what a shower of *****
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It is poor from IM, especially given the money folks pay but what is the realistic solution here? better stock forecasting? pay for a finisher shirt separately?
2,000 shirts is a lot of waste.
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Not if they donate them to a clothing charity. Wouldn’t it warm your heart to see people wandering around Africa with 70.3 Swansea shirts 
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surely there is a bit of bullshit coming from RO or someone needs to go on a refresher course in Purchasing !!!
you know the race entry numbers and if you add 10% contingency and 15 % for DNF /DNS ,you still won,t end up with 2000 left over shirts from previous year !.
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Apparently they went missing the year before and that year people got a cheap cotton t shirt. They were then found in a warehouse somewhere and they thought lets re use them. Tada we are eco friendly.
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that explains the number of 2000
wonder why they didn,t send on the 2022 finisher T shirts to the finishers to replace the cheap shite they gave them in 2022
either way wasn,t a good PR stunt
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That would be a good option, except I read something the other day about how we’re killing Africa with clothes donations. Greta will be angry!
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We ordered about 800 shirts for our races the year they all got cancelled due to Covid; bizarrely it was cheaper to get 800 than 500 - not per shirt, cheaper overall as the price per shirt came down so much.
We didn’t use any of them so when races started again, we ordered medals for the new races and just gave the shirts away as an extra freebie if anyone wanted one.
We finally got rid of the last of them this year but they were decent tech fabric ones so always useful to train in.
ETA - we now give away a drinks bottle and a drawstring bag with our club on it but no dates so we can carry on using them until they run out.
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Last years t-shirts got stuck in Europe and couldn’t make it in time, so we got given a cotton version. When people complained they said it would cost too much to post the tech shirts out.
When I noticed the 2023 sticker on this years it just made me laugh; I can’t say I’m that fussed about race t-shirts, but get that for some people it’s an important part of the experience.
They could have probably avoided a lot of the backlash by being upfront about it, rather than letting people get upset after the fact and whip up online furore. I even think they could have sold them cheap at the expo as plenty of people would’ve paid £5 for one and donated the rest to sports clubs/charities.
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Frankfurt cost €630 last year, going for €625 today so with inflation it’s getting cheaper maybe.
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Is that comparing the same tier?
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Maybe.
Well written article IMO, the long distance bubble has burst and as before I don’t think it’ll recover in the Uk anyway.
Still think Bolton is on life support though, but may move elsewhere in the country.
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Wonder how the recent weather events in Hawaii will effect the Kona WC? Maybe it will mean the influx of business will be welcomed more than usual.
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The fires are on Maui. I doubt if events there will have much impact on the attitude towards the WC in Kona 
Lahaina is totally wiped out, just up the road on the bike course.
The fires are on a different island to the WC
There have been Fires are on the Kona course in the last week: