Notice how the first number matches his decade?

I always enjoy seeing people wearing (only) bib shorts while racing.

I swear in Milwaukee during the Oly I saw a guy with just a pair of bibs, but they were on backwards. The chamois pad was all bunched up in the front.

He was the only "55-". I would have been "50-" for the 50 yo's ( was # 176). You do bring up a good point, maybe he was sort of comic relief. Actually great joke if he was. I was thinking also "Did he bike in those shoes and maybe on a Mountain bike without cages even?" I did see some mountain bike without cages but they were in the relay. The relayers had red numbers as opposed to the solo triathlete with black numbers. Just an odd site.

Saw a guy running with his helmet on at the 2575 Las Olas in Ft Lauderdale. Classic n00b move ;)

My last race there was a guy that did his swim in 1980's jams. Then rode a bmx bike. It was an Olympic distance race that took him an hour to do the swim, 2 hours for the bike and then he crushed the run with a Forrest Gump style 6 minute/mile.

Had to tell a guy his wetsuit was on backwards last weekend - he insisted he wanted to wear it that way so he wouldn't have to reach around the back to unzip it when he got out of the water - finally convinced him it would be a bad day on his throat with all that material bunched up under his chin...

I chatted with a dude before a sprint tri who had 4 bottles on his bike. Two behind the seat, one down, and one in the aero bars. I asked him if he planned on drinking all of that during the 13 mile ride. He said nope but you never can be too prepared.

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http://tri-banter.blogspot.com/

Oh, OK. I thought they often tried to put all the 20's in the 200's, 30's in the 300's etc...

I've got my top 3 and a request

#1 - Oceanside 70.3, walking around transition and watching someone slap them self (face, chest, stomach, face, shoulder...), selftalk loudly, take a squeeze from a water bottle and repeat. This went on for 4-5 minutes.
#2 - Local CO triathlon, a trophy wife/soccer mom who was very proud of her training, body showed up for the pool swim in a g-string bikini. According to a volunteer buddy, the suit 'didn't make it for the swim' and she stopped a few times and 'acted embarrassed'.
#3 - Another sprint tri with pool swim, someone showed up in a Speedo LZR and a person in their wave did the bike portion on a single speed bmx

My request, I know there is a photo floating around somewhere of someone doing the run in a wetsuit.

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If I ever get fast I would love to do the bike leg on one of these.

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At IMLP years ago I remember a guy riding a vintage bike complete with a banana seat. It may even have been a chopper geometry.

Chicago has a whole division for people riding these

In true ST fashion, re: #2, pics or it didn't happen!

This is the best post so far.

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Oh if I had pics they would be here.

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For future reference, this might come in handy http://gopro.com/

I passed a guy at Steelhead a couple weeks ago riding one of those. He was looking strong!

Several years ago at Donner Lake Tri (6000 feet alt. and cold as Tahoe), the guy who won the swim by a ton was wearing nothing but a pair of cut off blue jeans. He was probably a relay, but DAMN, Donner is serious wetsuit water and this guy was wearing jeans. A statement was made!

Did he have a mullet also? That's impressive.

A guy had his wetsuit on inside out this weekend. I politely told him and he said he had always worn it that way. He quickly changed it out.

I saw a guy with his wetsuit inside out last weekend too. First time I've seen that in my 12 years.

jaretj

At the Toronto Island Sprint in 2009, saw a guy ride a bike which had a mountain bike frame but outfitted with road bike tires on ZIPP 404 rims and aero bars on the standard mountain bike style cockpit. In the previous year watching a try-a-tri, a dude had a cruiser bike with a storage basket over his back wheel (the kind you would put shopping bags in) and he put his water bottles in it for his rride segment

That was probably Andy Potts. He tells a story about doing the same thing before a HIM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjlHoi5VzA8
Go to 58 minutes into the video that story starts at around the 1 hr mark.

OK. I'm going to fess up on that one. 15 years ago I was going to do a sprint tri in Binghamton, NY and I had a 1996 Trek mountain bike and took it into the LBS and said, "Can I get this converted to a tri bike?". I was ready to put on clipless pedals and get the road bike seat and road bike handle bars with clip on aero's. He quickly said, "It would be a lot cheaper and a lighter bike if you buy this Nishiki CroMoly 12 speed.". And so I left the shop with my mountain bike and the Nishiki.
Never did do my first tri until 2012.