Haha, forgot about overseas races and was more thinking of the UK ones.
Although I’ve also got Denmark in June 
Reading the comments on that YT video make me really glad I had no big plans for last year.
Part of me wants to say, ‘I know you’re itching to race, but there’s a f**g pandemic, chill out!’ but on the other hand I understand why people are pissed off that Ironman is holding €500+ a race off people and fobbing them off.
It’s difficult for everyone, but I think Ironman need to be as realistic as the people who are desperate to race… It’s not happening on the scale Ironman produce.
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exactly.
forget flights. forget vaccines. forget willing entrants.
Very few places on earth will have a population that will support the holding of an IM event anytime soon, and even if they do, the chance of getting enough volunteers to run it must be vanishingly small. No elected official on earth will go against their voters on this one. I doubt they’ll get permission to hold events from hardly anywhere until 2022.
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Fully prepared to not be IM-ing this year, have serious doubts whether many will have the fitness/endurance for Lanza in 13 weeks or so. Possible that would change for Copenhagen in August but the disparity in vaccine roll-outs will compromise the staging of most mass participation events overseas.
Might get a 113 Covid half in September or the Ultimate who ran a full and half last August or September too.
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Yeah - I’m thinking a 113 might be nice 
Nice flat course will suit my lockdown gut 
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6 months to Copenhagen for me, I am now running about 6k, cycling (offroad mainly) so no great mileage and zero swimming. Looks like it has gone from my original goal of my fastest IM to now just get round and enjoy it. Accommodation and flights (assuming easyjet are still going) already paid for etc. My wife was also doing it last year but then couldn’t face another years training so binned it and did manage to get her money back via the credit card route, so if this years gets cancelled and no more deferrals then I will try that as well. When we get some nicer weather should start building the bike mileage. I’m sure I’ll get round and the swim is a nice course so not worried about just getting round and whilst disappointed it definitely won’t be my fastest sort of looking forward to it, but expecting further disappointment. Tour of Flanders sportive cancelled for second year now, but been expecting that one coming. It has been deferred so something to look forward to in 2022 already !
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On balance I do feel that racing is very low on the list of worldwide priorities at present and my own selfish hobby should not put any other people at risk.
I would like something to look forward to, I like a bit of certainty. I guess the big organisers will wait until the last minute but that is only one hurdle. Getting there and back without a huge penalty in time or expense is a cross government problem or cross county/tier system in the UK.
I think the chances of me driving across to Germany, racing and driving back in July are rather slim.
I had planned last year as my last season of long distance Tri, I rolled it to this year but not sure I will have the desire to go again if we don’t race this year. I would go to Wales if that happens and I can somehow wangle an entry
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Roth have called it
Race rescheduled to September 5th 2021 no additional cost or
Defer to July 3 2022 no additional cost or
Refund money with a 90 Euro fee
I think that’s a pretty decent show by the organiser.
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Yup!!!
€90 seems realistic for sunk costs (it’s probably more, but that’s a mint gesture)
I’d snap their hand off for an £80 (?) loss and the loss of all the stress/hassle of these constant changes
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Yep, I’d certainly take that kind of option for IM Vitoria as well.
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Especially if I’d taken-up that €100 offer last year, to invest in Challenge and get those 3 ‘passes’ to enter over the next 10 years! Assuming that still holds.
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I stupidly paid £28 to run the London Marathon around my block, will pick a simple flattish local loop of about 1k. Gives me a purpose to train for. I could do it myself but Im a sucker for a tshirt and medal 
As said before I will likely swallow Wales if it goes ahead anyway, hoping Bastion may go ahead as its small field and Castle tri put on event at Hever last year but early July might be a push still. Will do a run out at Midnightman as that has potential to go ahead also.
I’m also in windsa and weekend warrior at London both deferred, but slim and no hopes of them going ahead at their size.
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TBH, maybe with the exception of SDW100, I’d trade all my races if it meant that folks could have a holiday with their families.
We are booked for April and I know there’s a 99% chance that won’t happen but I’m desperate for Little One to at least see some other kids and have a good time away from these four walls.
Racing seems trite when weighed up against how, as a parent you can’t show your kids a happy time.
But the selfish side of me, wants everyone to have their races if it’s safe.
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Good gesture from Roth, wonder if it applies to other Challenge races, Roth probably gets some local backing.
Would be nice if Ironman gave notice like that, although TBF they were reasonable about Texas for me after lots of prodding.
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they did give good notice for Wales, but basically offered a deferral and nothing else, which i understood at the time as we were heading in the right direction Covid wise and 16 months seemed like a long time for things to clear, but now it’s obvious we will not have anything like previous lives anytime soon I don’t want another deferral as it wont be the race i signed up for and I have other things I’ve missed in the past year that I wish to do instead like nice holiday or three. I’m not holding out much hope of them being reasonable though.
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Refund isn’t in their dictionary!
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One other thing, not so much with IM. (maybe for some) but some of us were entering races that we were on the cusp of finishing, age wise. A 2yr deferral when you’re in your 30s or 40s is very annoying but still ok.
A 2yr deferral in your mid 50s and beyond, could be the difference between doing a race you’ve always wanted to and just not being feasible to do at all.
If I get a spot at CCC on Thursday and it ends up in deferral, I really can’t see it happening. UTMB already tell me I’m ‘not likely’ to finish now, let alone in a year from now.
If I had costs invested into really big ticket races now at my age, I’d probably prefer the money to spend on family, rather than the added pressure of pushing a knackered body even further.
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Will never forget 2016 UTMB passing a guy about 10 miles from the start running at a 45% angle from the waist up who looked like he was about 70 - thought to myself he aint ever gonna finish this
He passed me on the climb to Bonatti (still at 45%) as if he were out for a weekend stroll. I dropped out at 73 miles and saw him cross the finish line as the last finisher but winner of his age group - they waited for him to come in to do the awards ceremony on the Sunday so that they could present him as the winner of that category
Never too old FP!
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Never going to be an issue for me unless I make very old bones, feel for those who trained their ass off as they were entering a new AG and felt they had a real shot at an AG win or ‘just’ a KQ, two years down the road it’s going to be a completely different start line for them, or three years
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especially if they don’t have Zwift! 
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