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I've got the pirate flag, got the tattoo and now i've got a name with Iron and M. in it,
Does that make me very shallow ?
Not that I care
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Insert emote for *slap forehead*
This is why people do trifles...
Nice change Purple
+1 on the need to see the tat
MTri - you need to PM someone at runners world......
I think its Alice RW
There is a whole forum thread on this somewhere... can't be that hard to find as I did it 2 months ago.
IPM niiiiccce!
Perhaps I sHould become RidgebackM.ax
Just a small question, but I take it you mean you got the outlaw tattoo, not an M. ? Obviously they are both long distance triathlon, but M. is a brand.
If you've completed the Outlaw and got an M. tattoo isn't it like running the Nike 10K and getting an Adidas tattoo?
I got the A///, the swoosh, and the wave just for good measure.
dyson = hoover
pepsi = coke
looped fabric = velcro
sticky paper = post it note
sticky plastic = sellotape
all brands to the right but used as generic terms to describe other brands
so long distance tri = ironman
Realise that, FB. Just from my perspective having done an branded M. for my first, I thought long and hard whether I wanted to have an M. tattoo.
I can't answer the question whether I would have had an M. had I not done the first one as a M. branded event.
Also to consider is that Outlaw was a superbly organised event and it if it continues to be so, it may be that in the UK, Outlaw becomes synonymous with long distance tri....
So taking that literally, it means that to you that the Outlaw name does not mean the same in terms of effort or reward the same, What would it take for them to mean the same?
I have to say that I work in marketing, so I look on things like this quite differently I guess.
It's the battle of the brands. Outlaw may be a bit pissed off that people take their highly branded >O 'long course / iron-distance' event and turn it into an 'ironman - M.' Which is essentially their competition.
Just like Pepsi may get a bit pissed off with people referring to their soft fizzy drink as Coke.
my m.dot will do
I rather like the Outlaw logo. If I'd done the race, I'd certainly have a good think about that logo as an alternative to the M dot as I think it looks great and would make a great tattoo ( would have to be in blackwork though).
I reckon the Outlaw folks also spent quite a bit on designing a logo that was replicable so I was looking forward to seeing the Outlaw tats.
Next year maybe