i was in monterrey, mx, this past weekend for the 70.3. i spent a lot of time talking to jaime cadaval, who is pretty much the prime minister of triathlon in that country. i wrote about his races a couple of years ago.
when i used to do these no-draft races in the 90s, you'd get 800, 300, 200, 400. today these are draft-legal races and they get 2200, 2000, 3700, 2900. the largest race in the no-draft era of mexican races would be discontinued were it held today, because it would be too small to mess with.
what has this mean to no-draft racing in mexico? did it kill it? there are still no-draft sprint races in mx and they are larger than they ever were a generation ago. the 70.3 race i was just at had 2300 people and 90 percent were mexicans. to be clear, a fair number of them did the 56mi on their road bikes, but i think it's because it's what they had. it's what they use for their triathlons.
it used to be that ironman races on mexico were pretty much a failure. i still don't know about cabos, but monterrey, cozumel, whether full or 70.3, i think they just announced another in campeche, they are doing much, much better now than they were a decade ago.
discuss.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman
when i used to do these no-draft races in the 90s, you'd get 800, 300, 200, 400. today these are draft-legal races and they get 2200, 2000, 3700, 2900. the largest race in the no-draft era of mexican races would be discontinued were it held today, because it would be too small to mess with.
what has this mean to no-draft racing in mexico? did it kill it? there are still no-draft sprint races in mx and they are larger than they ever were a generation ago. the 70.3 race i was just at had 2300 people and 90 percent were mexicans. to be clear, a fair number of them did the 56mi on their road bikes, but i think it's because it's what they had. it's what they use for their triathlons.
it used to be that ironman races on mexico were pretty much a failure. i still don't know about cabos, but monterrey, cozumel, whether full or 70.3, i think they just announced another in campeche, they are doing much, much better now than they were a decade ago.
discuss.
Dan Empfield
aka Slowman