Yeah - if it rolls down, I’m taking it.
No doubt about it.
Just gotta make sure I finish the damn thing in 2023 
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I would book the hotel and make sure it’s refundable. After IMUK could be hard to find a room
Big Island Resort haven’t started to take bookings yet. I am on the list (in case I decide to go back). Send them a message and get onto the list. I have a feeling that they might bump prices next year, and don’t blame them.
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This seems to be the biggest inflationary item since we went years ago, the swim skin was $100 - perhaps that was 'cos it was just after they were made illegal in swimming so there were loads of excess ones?
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Ste is in my club, he absolutely smashed it 
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22 nd with 9:17, in his age group!
I know it was a fast day and there the best in the world but Jesus tonight!
Big Kurt went 10:30? In a great race paticulary the bike, out of 2500 he wasn’t even in the top half!
Speedster central.
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Bolton usually rolls a bit as well, people like Marc Laithwaite usually skips his slot. And 15 extras.
People might have already qualified, deferred or just not want the cost at short notice.
£8k though 
and I think the basic entry is now £1300:thinking:
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I was saying to an ex-TriTalker who’s just started running again that he should get swimming and we can go camp on the beach 
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Fifty bucks for a t-shirt. Phwoar
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50 dollars for a t-shirt 
Limited edition, let’s do some simple addition
Fifty dollars for a t-shirt, that’s just some ignorant 
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I call that getting swindled and ()
I call that getting tricked by a business
Your welcome (the welcome is all yours)
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Just you wait until you get in the “finishers merch” tent at St George and you won’t even notice the price tags 
All those finishers items that you never knew you needed
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I’ll do the my standard buy a visor and wear it on the run.
I want a WC towel, that’s top of the list
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are they the grey ones?? still have mine - use them when in the campervan
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Got a couple, one black and one brown, pretty useful all these years later
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I have a brown Bala towel somewhere
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Grey and “brown” - although the brown one is now yellow?
Unless there was a yellow one 
I came 3rd AG at the British Middle Distance champs and got a nice bronze medal in a box, plus £20, at one of those races.
The other one, I swerved to avoid a pheasant on the way home, hit a kerb in the middle of nowhere, cracked my alloy. Drive home on an egg wheel. £300 damage 
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Thinking about it, one is dark brown, one orangey colour, plus the black one
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likewise. wonder if it was the same year? (grey towel but can’t recall the year)
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At Kona in 2013 for every $100 dollars spent in the merch tent you got an IM World Champs buff. I have quite a few of these! At least five.
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Had to be 2010?
I recall Lou Collins narrowly beating me
I did 4:23 that year, having done 4:52 the year before in 2009 and 4:54 in 2008 
Think I found the PEDs in 2010
EDIT: I loved that race. Was sad to hear of its demise when I started up again. It’s was the first race I went to enter. I enjoyed the ability to use the showers afterwards.
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