Replying to you only because you're the last post, sorry.
But holy moly. Do y'all want an echo chamber? Really, we made it 8 posts before we had someone start throwing around their own sexist attitude and responses to OP "because she did it first"? ("Oh, you're bragging [about being a female pro], get faster and race in a smaller field" immediately followed by a separate response that someone dropping a bottle under a bike should be a disqualification?? @Savage, truly hope you're ok and sorry your day got cut short, hope the next one is way better.)
We see thread after thread of race ranger and race conditions and the front of the race and blah blah blah and ONE person posts about how shitty the conditions are for women in the professional field and y'all pile on about the
legality of her language? And you feel
personally attacked?! Wheels in expansion gaps was noted as a problem due to the density of racers on course - and for the professional women, if they're not around other professional women, they're around FOP AG men. (Except Taylor Knibb, she's around pro men.) So, yes. The logical conclusion of the issue is that the professional women were impacted by the density of FOP AG men. Stating the issue as age groupers is less accurate.
I mean, come on. How many posts have you seen about how slow women are the only ones getting slots to world championships (Kona, Nice, or 70.3)? How many times do you think the women on the board have experienced being painted by a broad brush? I'm certainly not saying that its right, but in this case, its accurate. If you weren't there or you were but weren't around professional women, then this is clearly not about you, its about the individuals in the race. (Whereas when I read about how the only people qualifying for the women's world champs slots are slow, that is about me.)
Good grief. This is a safety issue for the WHOLE field, this happened to be a post about the professional women. I like having other women on this board. The women's specific board is gone, so its kind of uncool to make a thread specific to women's racing so hostile. I really like being a part of this community, but boy reading how this thread devolved sure felt shitty.
KJ
Swim and Triathlon Coach
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