Lagoon wrote:
mathematics wrote:
-A 140.6 requires you to be there Thu for packet pickup
I had no idea about this, but I'm glad I do now. Why is pick up 2 days before the race?
Money grab for the local hospitality industry is the real reason. IM will say something about logistics, blah, blah, blah.
Amazingly enough packet pickup at a 70.3 with more people than their IM events are somehow handled the day before without issue.
This is also something that IM needs to move away from. They need to figure out how to make everything easier and more convenient. They're still doing shit how it was done 20 years ago. Why we need to sometimes spend 60-90 minutes standing in different lines for check-in/packet pickup when some of it could be done online is absurd. Check my ID, hand me an envelope with my swim cap, bib, stickers, and timing chip and let's move on with our day. Instead we get one line for ID check, another to fill out waiver forms, another for cap/bib/stickers, another for the timing chip, another to test the timing chip, and I'm sure there's a line I'm forgetting.
Bike drop off the day before is the next thing that needs to go. "But, but, but, logistics, blah, blah, blah."
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