Challenge Bahrain Cancelled!

Yes; my main race goal of the year has been cancelled! In many ways this is a complete disaster. However, in other ways it is ok because the IM 70.3 event is only 2 weeks later on 5 Dec 15 - also in Bahrain. I suspect that there is a huge amount of politics behind the decision and it looks like Bahrain has sided with the IM brand, with Challenge being ousted! The impact on the majority of entrants to the Challenge event will be mightily upset as they would have had hotels, flights etc booked for the event. Anyway, it is all change for me and the race date moves to 5 Dec 15. The 70.3 differs from the Challenge race in that it has a split transition and the normal early start. The bike leg finishes with 5k round the Bahrain International Circuit (F1 race track). Kind of cool and hopefully the fastest 5k of the race!