Remember the waiver we agree to before we're allowed to sign up and never read? Here's a piece of it:

- I am voluntarily participating with knowledge of the risks. Therefore, I assume and accept full responsibility for myself, for the inherent and other risks (both known and unknown) of the activities, and for any injury, damage, death or other loss I may suffer, resulting from those risks, including the risk of my, a co-participant’s, and/or a third party’s negligence or intentional or other misconduct, or any of the Released Parties’ negligence.

Sorry for the loss you suffered, but they're not responsible.

One cannot waive one's right to claim damages due to negligence. Sorry.

Actually you can depending on what the state law allows. A waiver of intentional conduct is not likely to be enforced however. In California you can't waive gross negligence but you can waive ordinary negligence. Assuming NY law applies I'd bet it is similar

I made it through T1 , I am putting my bike gear on and the volunteer says, as he has done last year, leave it where it is , I will take care of it so I go and jump on the bike

I checked all lost and found

They are liable for me, ridiculous to say otherwise for me

so i end up in the med tent yesterday with hyperthemia

they hand me my bike and run gear but at the time i am laid on a bed freezing my nuts off so i don't realize there is not wetsuit in my bag

Hyperthermia - Too much heat.
Hypothermia - Too little heat/too much cold.

(Basically).

John

it s your responsability to put all your gear in your swim bag after the swim. It dosnt matter what a VOLUNTEER tell you...they are no professional and they do there dam best.
WTC isnt on the hook for that one...you are.... It suck, but we all know it s our responsability to put gears in the bag...if you let someone else do it, it s a your own risk.

I personally take the risk everytime and never put my gear in the bag.... but i m aware it s a risk of mistake happening...

I made it through T1 , I am putting my bike gear on and the volunteer says, as he has done last year, leave it where it is , I will take care of it so I go and jump on the bike

I checked all lost and found

They are liable for me, ridiculous to say otherwise for me

who trains the volunteers ?

they are responsible for putting my stuff in bags - thats what they tell us

Here's ridiculous. You decide NOT to be responsible for putting your gear in your T1 bag. Then feel WTC is liable because a volunteer didn't pack ALL of your items. You consciously made that choice because you felt you had a chance to KQ.

I always put my stuff in my bag. Transitions are cluttered and confusing and it is darn hard to tell whose stuff is whose. Sounds like you expected valet service.

My wife walked right into transition and grabbed my bags and bike. When exiting she asked a volunteer if she needed to check out or show them the ticket, said they didn't really pay much attention.

maybe you shouldn't drive a car you can't afford to lose, maybe you shouldn't live in a house you can't afford to have burnt down.

some of you people have shit for brains.

don't race with anything you can't afford to lose? that has to be the dumbest most pompous statement i have ever heard. maybe you shouldn't drive a car you can't afford to lose, maybe you shouldn't live in a house you can't afford to have burnt down.

who cares what his stuff costs. the fact is that it was lost or stolen at a race where the race is entrusted ensure the safety (from theft) of people's belonging.

for starters, my WHOLE family was in t1 in 2011. i finished the swim 30 mins ahead of schedule and my mother panicked and thought i drowned. my whole family (mother, sister, aunt and FIVE cousins) were in transition running around looking for me and checking to see if my transition bags were still there. we still joke about it these days. they had absolutely ZERO difficulty getting in there.

they also were able to retrieve my transition bags afterwards with no tags (i got my bike myself).

the reality is that we don't know what happened to the wetsuit. for all we know it was placed (hung) on top of the transition bags (that's how mine was) and someone snagged it.

i have complete sympathy for this guy. a volunteer said don't worry about it and that he would pack things up for him. i've done over 20 traithlons and i've always entrusted these amazing volunteers to do the task they told me they would do. it's like going to a club and giving your coat over to coat check and they lose it. same difference. volunteers in T1 is a service provided by the wtc.

you're gonna get screwed, it's just too bad.

some of you people have shit for brains.