Have our bikes weighed before the race, open entering transition. Have the weight of our bike, in minutes, subtracted from our race time.
Ok, that was a light hearted joke. But when triathlon was big in our area in the beginning, transition was full of 40 pound Schwinns, etc, and they still looked like the fancy bikes the rich kids had.
We are also not going to grow the sport, when entry fees double and triple etc the local half and full marathons, that is the biggest gateway drug to triathlon. I can race an entire local running season, for the cost of one Ironman. And what the hell? I gotta join an insurance org to race? The running folks laugh at stuff like that.
Athlinks / Strava
Ok, that was a light hearted joke. But when triathlon was big in our area in the beginning, transition was full of 40 pound Schwinns, etc, and they still looked like the fancy bikes the rich kids had.
We are also not going to grow the sport, when entry fees double and triple etc the local half and full marathons, that is the biggest gateway drug to triathlon. I can race an entire local running season, for the cost of one Ironman. And what the hell? I gotta join an insurance org to race? The running folks laugh at stuff like that.
Athlinks / Strava