Just googled them for a replacement 
£80 - £110 now.
Seems like they’ve stopped making them and die hards like me like them as spares 
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Hope you get in, it was shit reading the IMUK thread yesterday and your issues.
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Yes, I’m in.
Skin has just about grown back from 2013.
‘Longest transition ever 2’ - the extended change tent edition 
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You weren’t at Southport 
AHEM. Hamburg.
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Surely the same transition as the Notts half is planned.
Enjoy that one lads
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Same layout but with change tents as well
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Erm, did you not watch BBC1 at 5pm?
No more RULEZ BROSEF 
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Driving weren’t I!
That’s what you said last time mate.
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FURRRRR REALLLLZZZZ this time, bruv.
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No…!
Gales forecast ….
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I’m in. Coming from California, so have to make it through the gauntlet of 4 covid tests and a week of self isolation. Unless the rules change, as seems to be happening. Hoping being double jabbed counts for something eventually.
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Wow, this race must have a great reputation if you’re coming from California! 
Before COVID, there was talk of Wildflower making a comeback. Any likelihood do you think? How’s the lake looking?
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Did they take it off the run course distance?
Or did you end up covering close to 15 miles on foot at the half?
IMUKs 600m T1 was long enough
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They didn’t take any off.
I had the run as slightly long too
Are they using the same water rapids run course?
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Yeah, looks like it 
Outlaw is a legend – everybody out here wants to do it 
. It’s been on my radar for a few years, and it’s one on the few independent IMs that’s happening this (northern) summer. So I figured what the hell, if you don’t bet, you can’t win.
Wildflower might belong in the " Things that show you’ve been doing tri for too long" thread (Mile 4 aid station!). Lake San Antonio is at 11% capacity and falling. All of California’s lakes are like that now. One race I did had a half mile run from the swim exit to transition – good practice for Outlaw it turns out .
The bigger problem with bringing Wildflower back is Monterey County, which owns the park. Budget cuts and drought-related closures over the last ten years, and disputes with the company hired to run the park have left it in an increasingly natural condition. Which is fine for a weekend of camping with a few friends, but a problem if you’re trying to turn it into a small city of 4 or 5 thousand people. The company that used to run Wildflower – Tri California – spent weeks doing trail and campsite maintenance, hauled in drinking water and bussed people to a new swim start near the dam, where there was still some lake left.
That got expensive, so they sold the race to a group that tried to reimagine it as a weekend festival of everything – tri, running, swimming, biking, paddle boarding – but that only lasted a year. They haven’t exactly given up on bringing it back, but no one here is counting on it anymore. Another company tried to do a much smaller race at the lake, but covid put it on ice.
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@Poet did you get in?
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OOhhhhhh do it do it do it!
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