Registrations for Melbourne/Phillip Island 2013 opened this week, and the most notable thing was the dates have moved from Feburary to the 19th and 20th and January.
The date change hasn't caused any real problem for our team - We've all signed up for the Sunday straight away - But it's certainly going to cause some training issues. Weather won't be much different (with a scary prospect of a 40-degree celsius race day - Yes, that's quite possible here at that time of year!), but the real problem is going to be trying to do that last critical month of training during the Christmas/NY silly season.
In some ways it might give us more time with the holidays 'n all - But it also means we won't be together as much. Pros and cons.... But certainly something we'll need to take into account.
It also means one less month of training!!!
The new dates are a wasted opportunity for the local tourist industry too as it sits in the middle of our January peak season - the only four weeks a year we get fully booked anyway.
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Spread the love Mudder Organisers - move it to FEB or MAR for 2014 - please!
You're certainly right - I just went to look at accommodation and everything seems to be either booked, expensive, and/or requiring multiple nights bookings - None of which work for us. Guess we'll be travelling down two days in a row :(
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