I heard over the weekend that a local sprint race in Redcar has been cancelled as there’d only been about 5 entries. Although it might have been downgraded to a super sprint which wouldn’t have helped.
I’ve done it twice and a draft legal race is actually quite good apart from missing the fast packs out of the water.
Although I’m fairly sure the North Sea swim was the reason I was really sick afterwards last year and not food poisoning, that was an unpleasant 24 hours 
That’s a shame. Wonder if it’ll pick up next year when things have settled a bit more?
Vaping? That’s proper random!
Because CTT is a dinosaur of an organisation that couldn’t look forward with blinkers and a neck brace.
Let’s hope so 
(Coincidentally, I was chatting to a clubmate whose brother knows you, surname of Bainbridge)
2019 I marshalled at a marathon our running club puts on. I was showing people which way to go at a junction at the top of a long hill about 16 miles in.
One bloke got to the top of the hill, stopped by the side of the road, got a whole lot of paraphernalia out from a pouch he was carrying in a bum bag, rolled up a cigarette, smoked it goldfish style, put all his clobber away, and then carried on running. He was on for about 4 hours too so had some fitness. 
Ah cool, yeah James. Good running buddy. That makes sense as he’s from up North Wales.
Annoyingly talented at every single sport going! 
There was a TT1.0 contributor with us at Ironman France '20 who took 4 cigarettes with him to smoke at the airport end of the run .
Can’t remember his name, but nice bloke. Can you remember @chickenboy?
Nobody did it like Glen Gorrick back in the day
he ran the whole marathon like that. His time?
Run 03:54:49 10:36:08
I remember him, but not the name
The instant free accessibility of Zwift and parkrun has totally spoilt us imho. There’s even a 10km that goes literally along the road past my front door that I passed on this year because it meant committing to getting up early on a Sunday morning when I might fancy a lie in, who knows 
. Whereas parkrun or Zwift I just decide on the day.
Big events - that’s different. Can still get excited about those, and spend a chunk of time plotting and scheming and even occasionally training. But can see myself only doing two or three proper races per year in future, going for quality rather than quantity.
Our club 25 TT closes tonight. 18 riders, it’s normally a 40-50 type event.
Definitely events struggling to get numbers. A local one I was doing next month has just been cancelled and when I went to look for alternatives saw that 51fiver still has spots available, the event is 15th May. Pretty sure that is usually sold out well ahead of time!
Not a local race but I enquired with Nirvana about bike transport, £300 and I need to drop it off and collect it from a location that could be 50 miles away.
And apparently they are no longer allowed to transport a bag with it, eg helmet shoes and wetsuit due to Brexit?
I think there’s probably a lot more scrutiny of vans full of bikes and stuff going into and out of the EU.
We had issues transporting bikes from Geneva airport to Annecy in France on the HotChillee Alpine event. Customers’ bikes were being transferred from the airport to the hotels in Annecy in vans and one fo them got stopped by French customs on the way in. They wanted a full inventory of what was in the bike boxes, who they belonged to etc.
I assume that Nirvana want to try to simplify the paperwork and reduce the risk of any customs issues if they get pulled over and searched.
And sachets of white powder
That happened when I went. Late night bike building for some. I was one of the luckier ones.
Is that Boundary Breeze or another one?
Just had an email telling me Outlaw full still has places.
That’s usually sold out by now.
I canned Southport Tri (as I’d won the entry, so had zero cash outlay) mainly due to the forecast - cold, windy. But also had zero fitness.
Debating Staffs70.3, too. Money for that was spent a long time ago, so that’s a forgotten cost. I also sold my Large wetsuit and there’s zero chance I’m getting into my medium 
This used to be one of the best races going.
Peaks council decided not to allow it in 2022, due to already increased visitor numbers 
I never did manage a podium for the fruit basket 
I’m not sure on any TTs or anything this year.
I currently have zero motivation to do much at all 
The disappointment of last year has scarred me.
Yep. Apparently it’s the last ever Boundary Breeze as he’s building a house on T1!
That’s sad
It was my first open water tri.
Oh no!!! The one tri in the UK I really liked. Sure I’ve looked at it for this year but can’t remember why I can’t do it.
