I’m not going to ask. I like the mystery of it
Its in the UK
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You breast stroke.
you don’t go under 10 by 15 seconds or whatever it was… 
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Not guilty !!!
Your merch spend is <£250 (ie 2 items…)
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I was sweating just walking around that overpriced pile of crap!
I’m known for m being slightly frugal!
£13 for a mug… oh the irony !
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The “run” has less than 1500mtrs climb.
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I’ve got some merch, mostly bought by my Mum when she came with me to IM Wales in 2017. She thought I’d done the equivalent of going to the moon and back and said she wanted to get me something.
So I bought an anorak type thing which was ok but not that warm. A mug ( only £6!) and a t-shirt. What I really wanted was this light blue hoodie that I really liked but they were £80 bloody quid and quite thin. I’d seen them at registration and liked them but not at that price!
So after the race when buying finishing gear (that anyone can buy!) we saw there was one of these hoodies left in Large. It had no price tag on at all, probably why it was left.
It was a bit messy in the merch tent with rubbish on the floor and I saw a ticket that said ‘Blue shirt £18’ with a bar code. Figuring the folks on the tills were local hires and wouldn’t have a clue, I took a chance and put the label on the plastic thing that was on the hoodie.
Got to the till and it all scanned fine, SCORE, in your face Ironman. Zero fucks given on my part. Mum said to me ‘Did we get that hoodie for £18?’
I just said ‘yeah let’s keep walking’ 
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Nice to know that even though millions of us have been robbed by Ironman, at least one has robbed them:rofl:
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Yeah well the irony is that when I went back in 2018 I ended up buying a semi puff jacket that has been really useful. It was ‘only’ £50 but that’s how they get ya!
I do wear the crap out of it all but not all at one time. Definitely if you looked at my wardrobe though it could be mistaken for a ‘talke my money’ moment but it just built up without me realising.
That and the fact that the two IMWales backpacks I have simply haven’t broken, I’m definitely in ‘whore’ territory but the stuff works, so in these times of austerity, I’ll have to take my lumps!
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Non of my tri clothes fit at the moment
They have shrunk … all of them.
The mugs went up 200%+ in a year ?!
Considering some of the utter crap we ALL buy these days IM stuff is far from the worst cash we spend.
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I’ve got a really nice and warm Arc of Attrition hoodie that I ordered for the 50miler that I pulled out of. No refunds on that so they sent it to me anyway.
That thing will never see the light of day until the race is at least started!
The only post IM bit of merch I have bought was a hoodie at IM Florida in 2007. It’s all grey and none of this IM red to be seen on it anywhere, although the Mdot is on it. Still wear it as it’s fairly stealth for IM kit.
…the swim is downstream.
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My IM merch extends to finishers t-shirts and free back packs. Although I do have a grey hoody of the type FP is talking about. I’ve no idea how I acquired it. I certainly wouldn’t have bought it and I don’t even wear it. I’ll have to dig it out and see if it has a race name/date on it.
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Have to say I’ve gotten into buying a visor at every Mdot race I do now. I’m building up a decent collection but tbf, I wear one on every run I do! (And they’re only around £15-20)
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… you’re at the race briefing, looking around and seeing lots of baldy shrivelled chiselled middle aged men thinking to yourself, ‘definitely didn’t do enough training this year’
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I still get this feeling, even though I know I will beat 99% of them
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You don’t pee in wetsuit at least 3 times before the start
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