We were entered in 3 European 70.3s, all of which were eventually cancelled.

The earliest was a straight cancellation and moved to 2021. No choice but to “defer”.

Races 2 and 3 were later in the season and were initially postponed to the same weekend in September. If the races had gone ahead we wouldn’t have been able to do them.
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IM don’t give a sherbet about us. It looks like most European races aren’t likely to go ahead this year so who knows what will happen with 2nd deferrals.

If the rumours about IM having pandemic insurance is true they are just laughing at us.

I’m sure they had pandemic insurance. They are a global organization so having that insurance is a must.

I do agree they are just laughing at us. They had a. Opportunity to build a lot of goodwill but opted for the money instead. So be it. Their short term thinking is my long term gain.

I only know a few triathletes personally. They are all dropping Ironman branded races. So. I know I’m not the only one out there feeling this way. Not that Ironman cares what the athletes think.

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All fair points. UK have used a combo of society closure and high vaccine rollouts. UAE and USA have largely open societies with large vaccine rollout so let's see the stats shake out from there. UAE has been stuck on ~2K cases on 10M people since vaccine rollout but deaths are near zero and from what I understand they have plenty of hospital capacity (someone who is local please comment). I am not sure how open Israel was during the vaccine rollouts. They are doing very well.

I suspect here in Canada we stay pretty shut and closed until our vaccination levels get similar to where UK is today.

On that note are there plans for racing in the UK this summer. I hear the London Marathon organizers are putting on several local 10K races to start to gather data?

They have the 'reunion 10k' set up for 25th April 2021 as a 'test event'.
That will be really interesting to see what data comes from it (and maybe provides a good justification for more racing if the subsequent infection/ illness rates in those who take part remain similar to the general population).

https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/...rganises-reunion-10k


You're right that the UK has some racing coming up.

We have the next easing of restrictions from today in England (the 4 home nations are on similar but not identical paths). Normal shops reopen today. Pubs and hair dressers etc too. Gyms and indoor pools also reopen. (No indoor club sports yet for adults though so still no tri club indoor pool sessions until mid May).

As someone else said, if they could put the vaccine in the beer, we'd have everyone done by 10pm this eve.


Outlaw half distance race at Nottingham (something like 1500 people) has been slid from mid May to he end of June. But that looks it should go ahead, just with some staggered starting and a revised run course to eliminate an out-and-back on a public footpath - to eliminate passing members of the public and also racers passing each other.
Currently the Gov plan is end of all restrictions on 21st June (we have a couple of stage gates to get through tho so could still get pushed back.
Other Outlaw half's still scheduled S Normal (Holkham in early July) amd the full distance Outlaw in late July.


Here's hoping you guys catch us up soon and get back to some normality.