Roth 13 July 2008 - Triathlon

mellifera

pirate

14/07/2007 at 06:36

I know that me and Rosey are doing it; anyone else?

Ideas on good places to stay?

smiley lady (M.)

14/07/2007 at 08:01

Melli, there is already another thread for roth 08

We stayed in Nuremberg city this year. As we were going to be there a few days either side of the race we didn't fancy being stuck out in the middle of nowhere. It was a 25 min tram ride away from the expo/start/finish area. Couldn't recommend our hotel though (Meridien Grand). Paid a fortune for it but it is very run down. Good brekkie though :-)

JD.

pirate

14/07/2007 at 08:01

the race that dare not speak its name

lol. good luck.

did you listen to the IM talk podcasts from Roth? might be useful. they're dope testing the age groupers too. can only imagine they'll end up catching people who've had one too many coffees.

smiley lady (M.)

14/07/2007 at 08:08

I thought caffeine had been taken off the WADA list? I read somewhere that the new policy in all IM corp races was to test 4 of the first 10 male and female finishers and every age group winner?

JD.

pirate

14/07/2007 at 08:10

it could well have been smiley. my thought was that testing a bunch of part timers will just catch out those who don't know the list of banned stuff like the back of their hand.

smiley lady (M.)

14/07/2007 at 08:21

That'll be plummie, he'll finally finish one of these things and end up dope tested.... What on earth are we going to come up with lower than a tripe talker as a rank?

JD.

pirate

14/07/2007 at 08:36

It's a difficult one, maybe Journalist or Computer Programmer.

Plum

pirate

14/07/2007 at 08:44

They were testing the age groupers at IMDE as well

14/07/2007 at 09:01

[fixes JD with a Flat Stare]

Plum

pirate

14/07/2007 at 09:41

I thought you were a journo who wrote about computer programming leppie???

JD.

pirate

14/07/2007 at 09:44

are you not an ex-journo? tell you what, change journo for estate agent.

14/07/2007 at 10:31

old journos never die, they just sell out and find better paid jobs and spend years regretting it and dreaming of writing novels and end up writing books about mental illness or management issues but sometimes get to do a bit of freelance on things that interest them and then get even more grumpy about the job they've ended up in. You see.

Hollywood (busy on runsaturday.com) pirate

pirate

14/07/2007 at 11:25

13th July is my birthday... but I'd like to go with the pirate masses to Nice... and I'm still thinking about Almere (shiraz will defo do that)... and of course I'm only ever doing one IM race...

Maddy.

14/07/2007 at 11:31

Hollywood I am planning on going to Nice to support but hopefully do Roth - I f I don't get the funds together in time I will also be looking at Almere