I wouldn't call it "rabid" but the slot allocation was very well attended with very excited women hammering some very sizeable checks, so....

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You weren't there so you didn't see anything. Women want slots, too. It was a happy occasion for women who had always been close to a KQ but never got one.

I think that they should just give 50 slots to men and 50 slots to women then at every race if you want to make it even- not do 100 additional slots so some roll down to 20th place!

I think they should cap the roll downs at a certain % of the winner's time or placing too....if I were king of Ironman...

Ironman is a business. The concept is to sell more entries. 2 day WC format is more entries. Having bonus slots at races that don't sell out drives more entries at those races.

Money is the only motivator for any of this.

Yep, F60-64 had six slots overall (1 regular plus 5 Women for Tri) and sixth place athlete declined so it rolled to 7th place. And I placed 8th. Grrrr. Well, I’ll be back to Coeur d’Alene where there are another 100 slots on offer, and I’ll have aged up a group.

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Sharon McN
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