I was in the water for my first tri in Town Lake. I had never swam in open water before. The guy raises the gun and then lowers it. Then I see a jet ski coming across the water. There was a woman in a wet suit on the side being held up by another life guard. She apparently had a heartattack. I never did find out what happened to her.

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hey, hey, hey, don't forget- Stan Yablonsky never cold cocked no woman.

My first half, Caliman, there was an old guy on a road bike doing the race with training wheels on his road bike.

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At the Big Blue Off road triathlon last april, there was a guy behind me who was running, and out of the corner of my eye, without any warning, a grizzly jumped out and ate him.

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-Doug Thorne (TVHS XC)

Back in the early 80s there was a guy in his mid 60s, really fast, who would wear old dark colored dress pants and an old light colored dress long sleeve dress shirt during the run. I asked him about this and he said he "didn't like to sunburn", can't agrue with that I guess.

I can't believe the gall of that guy! Couldn't he spring for some Zipps?

My first half iron, Timberman 2005. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into with the distance, so I was a little nervous. When I started the run it was about 88 degrees and humid as hell. A half mile into the run I see a man walking like Frankenstein with both legs and most of his entire body in a full-on cramp. Another half mile ahead, I see a man lying in the grass in a full-body cramp as well. It made me take it a bit easy on the run..

I am sure someone on this site saw the same thing and can confirm. At IMUSA 2004, there were 3 females on the side of the road wearing wigs and were dropping there shorts and showing us the full moon as we rode up near little cherry. I saw them later on the run without their wigs and they were not that bad. Now, I am sure this does not compare to Wildflower where I hear that sometimes the girls on the side are a little more generous in what they show.

I came up on this guy during the run when his cell phone went off. He answered it and said," Hi honey, I'm almost done. Milk and a dozen eggs? Okay, I'll pick it up on the way home, bye."

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Shit. I hate when that happens.

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

Hey that guy was me, I am glad someone saw that happen. That bear was a real piece of work, can you believe he had the gaul to do that during a race.

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In my first 1/2IM, I saw a guy riding with his helmet on backwards. I know, I know, that's not terribly freaky, but how the hell did he manage that?

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Any run that doesn't include pooping in someone's front yard is a win.

Here's one witness to that. Those girls made my day. And I concur they "were not that bad", better in fact.

You forgot to add that they each had a letter on each butt cheek that when they lined up spelled "R-O-C-K O-N".

Just more porrf that Colbert is right, and Bears are the number 1 animal related threat in this country.

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

Not freaky, but definitely getting your attention. There's a supersprint here where the bike course runs adjacent and very close to the Air Force Base runways. It is a wee bit startling the first time you get a plane coming in and darn near landing on top of you.

Did anyone else see the young guy doing the run at Timberman this year in a suit?

Steve

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I saw it and was going to post it... I didn't see a bib # on him though. I did see him on both loops.

I did an olympic distance race in Germany when I was stationed there. After the swim the guy next to me in transition stripped out of his one piece tri-suit (right down to his birthday suit) and then put an almost identical tri-suit on for the bike.

I came to the race with my college roommate. Later on I saw her bike on the side of the road with the wheel bent to one side. Here's how screwed up our priorities are: I took her bike back to the car before checking the med tent for her. Apparently she had a little crash with some road rash. When I got to the tent she was huddled naked under a sheet. For some reason the medical personnel took all of her clothes off. She didn't speak much German so she just waited for me. Last time I ever raced in Germany.

I saw that too (on my 2nd loop, coming back, he was headed out).
I yelled out that I thought it was only business casual. I guess he didn't get the memo.
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A girl crouched in between 2 of the boxes that hold the special needs bike bags at IMAZ, at special needs bike stop. She was in between the boxes, not behind them, taking a piss through her bike shorts, while screaming her head off cheering for the riders passing her. The single loudest cheering I heard all day.

Or maybe the guy at IMFL 05 (I think) who passed me around mile 20 on the run, mumbled something, and then staggered up into someones pitch black front yard and climbed under a shrub. He put his hands together and used them like a pillow and looked like he was going to sleep.

In my first HIM, some bozo in a clown suit gave the race start command.

In a sprint a few years back, the water was so low it was like swimming in a mud puddle and some people actually just waded through it rather than put their face in the water trying to swim.

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Tri-ing to have fun. Anything else is just a bonus!

1. In the 2000 running of the Mrs.T's in Chicago I saw a guy taking a dump next to a pine tree near Soldier Field.
2. I beat Roman Krzyzanowski to the run in the 2005 Sylvania Tri.
3. Not a tri-but at the 2005 Detroit Marathon, there was a group of people who were detained at the tunnel because they set off the radiation detectors. They literally had about 10 people up against the wall and were frisking them as I went by them into the tunnel back to the U.S. That was sort of strange.

Bernie

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2013-2014 Detroit Lions---13-3 until proved otherwise.

At mile 111 of the bike in my 1st IM, IMFL 2004, saw an SUV hit and drag a motorcycle about 50 feet down the other side of the road, coming toward the oncoming racers. At first I thought someone was on the motorcycle and my heart just dropped into my stomach, a few seconds later I realized that it had been a parked motorcycle and no one was hurt. VERY FREAKY!

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It took THREE girls, one letter per cheek, to spell that?

I can see accomplishing same thing, same #letters/cheek, with just two.


Sorry, couldna' resisted that one...it was just so, so, sitting there...

Paul.

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I guess I only see weird stuff at Wildflower.

Last year at mile 3 or 4 of the run at the water station attractive coed is passing out water. I shout "its my birthday" (it was) and she flashes me and says "happy birthday."

At WF last year, guy in front of me hits a gatorade bottle in the road and does a good impression of a professional bull rider but manages to pull it out and continue on. Good thing - I probably would have hit him.

WF 2005, Mrs Last Tri does her first race. She rolls her bike down a hill, bends her bars and seat - both of which she cant fix. So she rides over half the race on a crooked seat and no low gears. Gets a bee sting in her boob. Cramps up bad 200 yards from the finish line I see her come accross the finish line covered in dirt and foxtails, crying with a stinger still in her boob. Tough chick.

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