treimink wrote:
HuffNPuff wrote:
treimink wrote:
this is why i care far more about usat rankings. even when you get gold, your reward is a whole bunch of emails inviting you to sign up early for races that you don't want to do anyways.
probably the only thing i liked about it was getting invited to the banquet at worlds, but i didn't even attend so not sure it's much of a perk.
At IMLOU 2015, AWA athletes were allowed to enter the pre-race banquet room via the most right hand door as opposed to the three doors immediately to the left (as in 1 foot to the left) ... walking into the same hall ... with open seating ... and no line cutting allowed for the buffet. They even had a person at that door taking the little AWA hall pass to ensure lesser athletes did not walk through that gilded entrance. WHAT A PERK!
it's a joke. i've actually checked into races and seen the awa line longer than the "regular" line.
I've not seen that in the 10 or so races I've stood in line at check-in since the AWA thing started. Usually the AWA line has zero people in it and the regular line has a 30-90 minute wait. The three races I stood in line for last year were Panama, Augusta, and Cartagena. The AWA line for both Panama and Cartagena had a total of zero people in them. I didn't race in 2015 so I didn't have AWA status. The regular line took almost 90 minutes at Panama, and an hour at Cartagena. Augusta I hit at the right time and there was basically nobody in either line. The last year I raced was 2014. I stood in line for the Texas 70.3, IMC, and IMMT that year. There was no AWA line at IMMT so it was about a 90 minute wait. There were zero people in the AWA line for both the TX 70.3 and IMC. The TX 70.3 regular line took almost 90 minutes to get through. IMC might have been 20 minutes or so.
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