No it's very hard not to draft in overcrowded conditions. It becomes a queue. You do the rough maths, 4000 people, on 1.8m long bikes with 12m gaps is not going to work on a 180km bike course.
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Here's my take on it.....why not force athletes to ride the legal distance from the start of T1. Or 1 mile in, and so if your 28th out of 30th coming out of the water in your group, your penalized for that. You dont get the same benefit of the 3rd guy when you are 25 spots behind him.
So I'm not saying "slow down", I'm saying ride legal....if that means your holding up that's your problem for not swimming faster or coming out with 38 other people.
And another thing, if you say the field size is the issue, if we decrease it by 25%, isn't the same congestion still going to happen? Shit happens in an ITU race with only 60-75 people.
So everyone talking about "field size", it's not going to matter if they make it 1100 people (roughly what 56% decrease from today's field size), there is still going to be a "density" point that you guys are saying can't solve. Instead of it being 68 max people per min, it's 48, but I could then point to your same points you guys are saying "not enough room for those 48" people.
ETA: So the really only "truly" correct answer is to make it DL or like Dean was saying the other day, ride it however you want to..want to draft, cool. dont want to draft, dont. But make it simplier by removing the rules. Again that's if you want to clean up the issue. If we want to drag our feet and say no way, then we'll continue to see these issues even with wave starts. We'll still have these issues, instead it'll be smalller packs, and maybe that's "allowable" much more than 6 packs of 40-60 people, we can turn a blinder eye to groups of 12?
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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Here's my take on it.....why not force athletes to ride the legal distance from the start of T1. Or 1 mile in, and so if your 28th out of 30th coming out of the water in your group, your penalized for that. You dont get the same benefit of the 3rd guy when you are 25 spots behind him.
So I'm not saying "slow down", I'm saying ride legal....if that means your holding up that's your problem for not swimming faster or coming out with 38 other people.
And another thing, if you say the field size is the issue, if we decrease it by 25%, isn't the same congestion still going to happen? Shit happens in an ITU race with only 60-75 people.
So everyone talking about "field size", it's not going to matter if they make it 1100 people (roughly what 56% decrease from today's field size), there is still going to be a "density" point that you guys are saying can't solve. Instead of it being 68 max people per min, it's 48, but I could then point to your same points you guys are saying "not enough room for those 48" people.
ETA: So the really only "truly" correct answer is to make it DL or like Dean was saying the other day, ride it however you want to..want to draft, cool. dont want to draft, dont. But make it simplier by removing the rules. Again that's if you want to clean up the issue. If we want to drag our feet and say no way, then we'll continue to see these issues even with wave starts. We'll still have these issues, instead it'll be smalller packs, and maybe that's "allowable" much more than 6 packs of 40-60 people, we can turn a blinder eye to groups of 12?
Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II
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B_Doughtie: Oct 24, 18 9:40