stevej wrote:
cloy wrote:
These Agers are absolutely dominating the middle distance race. My god. 3:46 winner? yikes.
Course is short. Swim looks to be ~500 yards or more short and the bike about a mile or slightly less. Run looks to be 12.95-13.0 miles. And there was minimal wind on the bike (if any at all). Given all that, it was still a pretty fast field.
I had 2 athletes/friends racing and they mentioned the packs on the bike (2 loops) were ridiculous but there were officials out there. The girl that won got hit with 12 min worth of penalties.
The swim was 1 mile, same as the pro's, don't think it was big enough to fit the extra .2 miles in. As you said bike and run were fractionally short. It was a super fast bike course, about 40 miles of it was out and back in a straight line twice on good roads. The wind picked up as the day went on, but it was definitely a lot worse yesterday.
Did see a few big draft packs, not sure why people cheat so blatantly, they wouldn't wear flippers in the swim or use an e-bike. Saw the refs go by quite and few times, but there seemed to be lots of watching and not much handing out penalties. There didn't seem to be any penalty boxes, so maybe that explains why people seem have been given penalties after the race. Noticed 2 people with 12 mins of penalties, surely if you get 3 drafting penalties it should be a DQ