yep they said they cant risk the good will of the neighbours by inviting 500kids and their families over for a race even if allowed. I think its telling of the way we are genuinely heading. If a kids tri wont go ahead little chance of any big events like Windsa, Lundan or Ironman.
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Or are those bigger brands holding more of a ‘don’t give a shit about the neighbors, we’re big enough to do what we want’?
They have councils to please, especially in Ironman’s case across a number of boundaries also.
Staffs rearranged to July 18th…two weeks after Bolton 
Chances of Bolton going ahead???
The last person capable of such miracles was put on a cross.
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I stand to be proved wrong, but I’m not expecting any IMs much in Europe this year at all…
The big question will be what IM do with deferred entries from 2020, as their T&C’s say that they can just cancel with no refund and no second deferral… I wouldn’t want to be managing their social media accounts or customer services teams if they starting pulling that stunt!!!
Is that what they’ve said publically? We don’t care about kids enough to risk upsetting a few nimby’s?
If they said, we don’t know what the restrictions would be, we don’t know that the conditions are going to be suitable for running a safe event, we therefore don’t want to risk disappointing kids and losing money so we’ll cancel early. Then that I respect a lot. If it’s pandering to NIMBY’s then no, I don’t.
Probably the same people who just want life to get back to normal so they can go on holiday to the Med 
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Does anyone actually know any of these sorts of NIMBY’s at all, I know I don’t really mix in groups who are super pro-lockdown, anti-anything-that-risks-you, but even people who 100% supported execessive restrictions - do not leave your house, do not say hi to a neighbour in the street etc. - are pretty happy with anything allowed by government going ahead 'cos they’re 100% believing the vaccine success?
I had a place for Snowdonia Trail Marathon on 11th July canned today as they said wasn’t clear if the Welsh roadmap would allow it to proceed by early July. Still got a week booked so be nice if parkrun were back at least!
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I just think that the older you get, the more you want your cake & eat it; because maybe people believe they have ‘earned’ it. At least that’s how I perceive a lot of ‘older’ people to be, maybe 50+.
In fact that 50+ observation is totally true; I mean look at @jeffb just turned 50. He was happy for the UK to give some vaccine stocks to other countries once he’d had his second jab 
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Been thinking this myself, they’re probably not at the peak of the wave yet, and even if they lockdown hard ASAP it’s going to take about 2 months to suppress and I’m sure they won’t be keen to put a few races on immediately.
If their vaccination program wasn’t in disarray it could have helped but that’s not going to suppress much. Hopefully they’ve prioritised the elderly and at risk.
And as per TRO’s comments elsewhere, some parts of Europe are very fatigued of restrictions and might be less likely to accept it again?
Only bonus is that as summer arrives it might offer some respite.
I’m almost wishing I’d stayed with Denmark 70.3 but Maastricht in August might yet get cancelled.
Bloody youngsters
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Apparently, there are a few people on this Forum under 40. These kids don’t know they’ve been born. They think a cassette is only something you put on a bike wheel.
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We need to start vetting new accounts
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Pfft.
Garage box sets of cassettes, pal.
When the latest mixes used to come in a folder of cassettes.
Quality.
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Pah…its still new fangled if it isn’t an 8 track.
My first car (van) had an 8 track player in it, and I only had one tape… I’ve never liked the Holly’s since.
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Will there be any event organisers still in business if everything gets pushed back another year? They must be eating through the entry fees for the 2020 events and they’ve still got to pay to put them on when they eventually happen 
I think there’ll be some sort of threshold with smaller events going ahead. What that threshold is i guess depends on a number of factors, not only participant numbers but sport (tri, running, cycling etc), location, level of NIMBYism, open/closed roads, venue location etc etc
I’m hoping Cotswolds can still run in July. My RD buddy is deffo running his ultra running events (1 a month from Apr-Oct pretty much), but they’re low key, small scale, low impact.
Got a mail from Centurion and they seem confident but not slam dunk for SDW100. I wonder how many are in that, 3-400?