Which is far from “literally everyone” 
But yeah, it’s becoming increasingly ‘unaffordable’ for those that would normally have a go, or have done a few and don’t see any value in stumping up that investment any more.
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i think that’s what they’re trying to do…
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i think we can take that pretty much for granted…
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One positive side is that my wife is now interested in doing triathlon, only so she can qualify and blow raspberries at me.
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Well … this thread took a turn 
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It’s kind of odd - The first story says she learnt to swim 8 months before qualifying, which would be November 2022.
But Cold water swims helped Bristol woman beat eating disorder - BBC News says she was swimming in 2017 “But in 2017, she began to recover after cold water swimming”
I’m sure it’s just the fake news media…
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Did I log into Slowtwitch?
A friend has been offered a place at Kona from Wales last year, she did finish 9/39 in her age group so slightly more deserving.
Sadly for her she’s currently fighting cancer 
But still dishing them out with 7 weeks to go.
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The wife of a friend of mine had an similar email as well. She finished 8/15 her age group at IM Portugal last year. They’re not going to take up the offer.
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I seem to remember seeing a friend had put up an invite to Nice on his Insta Story a week or so back for finishing 93/239 in his cat at Hamburg.
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A lad I follow on Strava and have met once had the same, although I think he was in the top 20 of something like M35 so again, on the fringes anyway.
Absolute beast on the bike.
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I bumped into that woman I mentioned elsewhere - she’s raging at how IM have done this. Pretty insulted by their “offer”.
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like most commercial activities, they are not quite in survival mode, but it is hovering not too far away on the horizon…
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