logella wrote:
I've got two friends that were simultaneously hurt and benefited from this type of reallocation. After the wetsuits were taken out of the mix at IMTX in 2011 a friend "lost" his slot when it was reallocated to another age group whereby another friend of mine was able to pick it up. The guy who lost the slot has done many IMs since then and never again been anywhere close to getting a slot.
Are his initials T.S.? :-)
Jokingly, he blames me and another guy for screwing that up for him. For whatever reason and at the last minute, we both decided to put on our sleeveless wetsuits that morning. Most people brought a wetsuit "just in case" that morning. I was literally stuffing it into my morning clothes bag, and had already put my swim skin on. My buddy just said fuck it and puts his on. He's an uber swimmer so I thought if he's wearing it so am I. So I put the sleeveless on over my swim skin. :-)
I'm certain the two of us didn't totally screw up the numbers since that year it was like 2/3 non-wetsuit, 1/3 wetsuit. But T.S. still likes to mention that from time to time.
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