I did hammer once. When I told people my distance they thought I had done the triple jump…
Also one memorable meeting when I jumped higher in the high jump than I did in the pole vault. The things we did for a point…
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USD1.14/£ isn’t going to help anyone going to Kona (or St George for the 70.3 champs) this year 
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Trying not to dwell on it, especially as some my hotels are pay later!
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Crazy to think that when I did the first 70.3 champs in Clearwater in 2006 the rate was something like $1.80/£.
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I went to NY in 2006; it was effectively $2/£ in the Summer. Then I went to Germany, and everything was really cheap on the US Bases because of the exchange rate. It was also around €1.44/£ and I got paid at 1.5 so it really was happy days!
Labour govt you see = strong Pound
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I see in 2007 it hit 2.11 
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Yeah, my wife’s been to NY a few times and that was what they used to reckon on when they used to go.
Crazy times
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And it’s not like things in America are cheap either!
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Those were the days when people used to go to NY for the weekend with an empty bike box, buy a bike, ride it around a bit to get some dirt on it to make it look “used” and fly home and it would still work out cheaper than buying the bike in the UK 
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I think my sister bought a camera lens over there, posted the empty box and brought it back in hand luggage, got a nearly free holiday!
Can we export stuff to them now 
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I few tried that in Oz for exactly the same reason but unfortunately, there were two very keen cyclists that worked in Customs and more than a few were caught out by their knowledge 
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Other thing was to fly out with a near empty case, and buy a year’s worth of clothes to come back with.
San Francisco was chuffing extortionate in June. And the exchange rate was much better then (quite glad I got enough dollars out for St George as well back then so have 1.2k dollars left to help take the sting out of StG).
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Arse, I’m going there before StG 
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I’ve been buying quite a bit of prosthetic stuff from the US from Ebay, everything is available there and absolutely nothing there. I’ve paid a far bit in import tax & postage which often amount to more than the actual item price.
If I’d been able to buy everything in one go (knowing all I want/needed) I could have paid for a trip over there no bother.
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Just win it all back in Vegas. Financial planning Jeff 
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Homelessness and street drug use in San Fran is shocking atm as well.
Been there 4/5 times, loved the place but feeling this June was ‘magic gone a bit, probably won’t be back’
Muir Woods was still f&*king awesome though…
Sorry…enjoy anyway!
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I use a forwarding service - MyUS - which gives me a shipping address in the US
Parcel arrives with them
You tell them the “value” which they put on the customs form
Then they give you a choice of shipping services.
Had no issues with it so far and it’s saved me a bunch
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Thanks, I’ll look into that 
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What’s the date for Kona this year? Is it before or after SG?