Anyway. Shall we just have a TriTalk training Camp instead? 
That would be way more social, just a harder sell; unless we went to Beirut maybe?
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How much smashfesting will be going on?
No need for accommodation, weāll spend all our time in the hurt box!
(Weāre doing TriTalk cliches arenāt we? )
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Smashcamp - 7 days locked in the box with the lid nailed down.
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Joking aside, a Camp in the off-season somewhere random in southern Spain would cost a lot less than doing a Euro IM!
Just food for thought.
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It will look nice that
Very swish
A DIY long weekend shouldnāt be expensive or too hard to organise?
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Good idea.
I want to do an M-Dot event next year, so will most likely do Staffs and Bolton (may defer Bolton to 2021)
I understand some of you baulk at the cost of Staffs and bemoan it ābeing in the UK,ā for me, thatās a positive (being in the UK, not the cost!)
Iāve seen a lot of the UK due to triathlon, even returning for family holidays to the New Forest (an area Iād never visited prior to triathlon)
Bala was stunning, too.
Iāve crewed at The Brutal and thoroughly enjoyed that (Slateman, Snowman and the Capel Curig one?)
The GTN show of Fraser Cartmell competing at Celtman also looked beautiful.
Cannock Chase is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the swim takes place on a Site of Special Scientific Interest - which may go some way to explaining some of the cost?
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If I wasnāt doing Copenhagen, Iād be all over Staffs. Like you say, my triathlons and Audax stuff have meant Iāve seen lots of beautiful parts of our country that I would never have seen otherwise. Itās a shame, but you pays your money and takes your choice.
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Yes, as a result of triathlonās and the fell running Iāve seen some great parts of the country.
Didnāt mind Weymouth, but itās a fair old trek for me.
Jeff
For all of you long in tooth M-Dot entrants and Active.com users:
The Waiver is pretty intense!
You indemnify then against basically anything and you, your surviving spouse, or anybody representing you, cannot sue them?
I cannot see anything in the waiver or sign up about āThe Eventā and what describes the event.
Any pointers?
Basically if the race is cancelled youāre fucked, if you die, youāre fucked, if they lose any of your gear, youāre fucked and if you crash and itās their fault, youāre fucked. In fact you have to work pretty hard to not get fucked
Still you can get a tattoo at the end, provided you dont die
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They donāt even take responsibility if you get that infected ffs!
Sign here. If you die itās not our fault. Hopefully see you at another race.
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Sounds like the perfect waiver 
That said, people sign NDAs all the time, and end up getting away with spilling the beans. Down to a good lawyer I suppose.
So who do you guys get insurance with for racing?
My life insurance wonāt pay out if I die whilst open water swimming, or competing in an event involving it.
Iāve never worried about it before, but having to sign over that amount of rights bothers me.
Really, Legal & General were only really interested in asking if I was in the SAS/SBS when I signed-up 
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I am SAS!
Every time I hear it on the news, my ears prick up, but then I realise they mean the boys playing at soldiers, and not the backroom boys creating financial instruments 
Interesting. Iāve never fully checked that. I only have an LV income protection policy, but that was specifically taken out to cover the mortgage if I got knocked off my bike and seriously hurt. I didnāt think to check about racing (or swimming) caveats.
I was in the SAS for a couple of years (Saturdays and Sundays)