david wrote:
"As far as I remember, they did just that in Challenge Roth this year.
They made a point about doing it somewhere far out from start/finish/transition though - in order for it not to become a public shaming. "
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you are right - that is what they did and they called it the K of shame. They also had 80, yes 80, draft marshals on motos....basically 1 per k on the 2 looped course - they were EVERYWHERE! They also worked proactively to prevent drafting b/f a call was made. I had not seen that before and thought it worked well. I have to admit I like this process of trying to be proactive and get things to stop before you ruin someones day. Jimmy gets the kudos for driving this process for WTC.
But it all starts with the number of draft marshals on the course. But, if the RD would design a course which was not draft encouraging, and either not have as many racers, different kind of swim starts, etc.
any of these would help minimize the drafting some of these races have. Since so many I do are either in the hills, or do not have thousand of folks, I see very little drafting. Not zero, but nothing like
some of the races talked about on ST. I just would not to do them. Why, would be a waste of effort worrying about getting a call and having to justify it on ST. :)
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