I DNF’d an Oly that was held in April years ago, after getting to T2, and my hands were so numb that I couldn’t get my shoes on for the run, as I couldn’t actually hold them, let alone do them up!!!
That’s perseverance. That car nearly made it
Ha ha ha - absolute idiots!!!
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Makes sense as I’m in for the full as well. My mate took a charity place about four weeks ago and is possibly kicking himself now he’s been fundraising non stop and is still 150 notes short of his target.
Nice one
What was his charity target?
£500 so not unachievable however it is a case of someone asking for sponsorship for something they love doing and have finished before - probably why he is struggling.
Yeah that’s why I’ve never gone down that avenue.
I suppose if you stump up £200 to cover your own entry it’s not too bad.
I don’t know that many people to ask though!
I’m the same. I have done a couple of events to fund raise but events i wanted to do and paid for myself. I was really annoyed by BHF actually, I raised just under £1k for them, in the days before social media. I then asked them if I could have one of the Great North run places before they sell it to a samller charity as it wasn’t far away and there were non-charity starts available, they said no. Ended up raising about £250 for a small charity.
Turns out I’d unsubscribed from OSB emails in January so I missed the March email, doh! (I’ve been unsubscribing from mailing list spam a lot recently so must have done so in haste.) Anyways, I’ve transferred to Outlaw X in September
‘Last chance’ emails getting sent out for limited spaces @Poet
You have Mail
Nice. Are we next to one another number wise then? Where did you see that out of interest? I can’t find anything, and can’t see it in any emails I’ve received
No TTT-ing the bike now…
Not a chance I’d be able to hold either of those two wheels!!
I was hoping I might be able to make something up on the run, but @Adam 's 5k this weekend would seem to screw that plan too!
Well at least they wouldn’t be relying on @jeffb
He’d turn up to the wrong Outlaw
https://www.outlawtriathlon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/OHN-21-Startlist.xlsx
@Doka is #311
@stenard #318
#319 for me
Should be really fun
Will be desperately trying to cling onto @stenard feet!
Will this be our first proper TT smackdown of the year then? When is it?
June 20th - Father’s Day! Just over 4 weeks
Thanks. Blimey, some big names. Guessing LCB might be the fastest of everyone in the water? Very thankful I didn’t bother entering the Elite wave, which I technically had the time to be able to do. It would have been rather embarrassing!
EDIT - hadn’t thought about the possibility of an “arrival window” on Saturday. Thankfully we are later in the afternoon. I can’t pick up my hire car until Saturday morning, so won’t be getting there until after lunchtime.
EDIT2 - I also had no idea how big Outlaw events were! 1700 people!!