h2ofun wrote:
BCtriguy1 wrote:
bluefever wrote:
Also agree. It's getting to the point where doing the bike on a trainer is the only way to make people happy. It's a race, you race the course, you race others to enable you to make the most of your best attributes.
It's also a triathlon, Kienles problem is his slow swim, not bike packs at 12m distance.
Triathlon's problem is the sport doesn't favour strong cyclists. I'd love to see a 20m draft zone for the pro race. If you're not willing to work on the bike, that's fine, it should show on your bike split time. It's boring as hell watching this train of uber runners sit in on the bike.
I'd like to see the modest bikers/uber runner rolling the dice either by sitting in a 20m draft train and watching guys like SK ride away, hoping they can catch them, OR by working hard to close the gaps on the bike, and maybe hampering their otherwise stellar runs. I think that would be a far more entertaining race to watch. The way it is now, there's really no point in watching once the bike groups have developed.
One of many reasons I say make drafting legal. The only folks who really push what you offer are folks who cannot swim, or run, so they really are not complete triathletes like Gomez is. Our sport is not uber bikers, it is triathlon. So with drafting legal, it forces folks to have to learn to swim. Still have a great bike, and then have to have a great run. The ITU guys, and gals, are the complete triathlete, which is all that maters. I sure do not care about a single leg of our sport.
I think the main reason you push drafting is that you're a really good runner and a self admitted poor swimmer and biker.
As your stated, our sport is Triathlon, which is theoretically, in long course, an individual time trial across all three elements, with some legal drafting happening during the swim.
