Are you in?
Years ago, that's all there was, aside from a few people getting on planes to go to Hawaii and Nice. Eventually they had the USTS Olympic tri series....often the local USTS event was the big event for the local scene, but not that many people travelled to go do any of them at a distance. Eventually when there were national championships around the world and the ITU got organized, people travelled to go do their nationals and maybe fly to ITU worlds....but mainly it was the local "world championships" racing the same people week over week. Sometimes you battled out roughly the same people every weekend all summer.
So if you only have 50-500 person local events...sprints, duathlons, olympic tris, maybe the odd half IM, are you interested?
I started a weekly fun duathlon with a friend on a site where I used to organize races in 1990. We're not trying to make it big, just a few people on the course, and choosing segments to "race". The rest of it, is distanced group stuff. It feels good. Its turning into our weekly world championships, but I think locally we'll have a good series next year of local events and demand for once will relatively high compared to when Mdot events were cannibalizing the local events.
My local race directors are all getting ready for next year. If I was less busy with my professional life, I'd probably step in and organize some smaller local events that are bare bones and stripped down (show up, you get a closed course, you get a chip, you get a time and results, go home). No frills. That was pretty well what my events were like in the early 90's other than you got a Tshirt and some pizza.
Years ago, that's all there was, aside from a few people getting on planes to go to Hawaii and Nice. Eventually they had the USTS Olympic tri series....often the local USTS event was the big event for the local scene, but not that many people travelled to go do any of them at a distance. Eventually when there were national championships around the world and the ITU got organized, people travelled to go do their nationals and maybe fly to ITU worlds....but mainly it was the local "world championships" racing the same people week over week. Sometimes you battled out roughly the same people every weekend all summer.
So if you only have 50-500 person local events...sprints, duathlons, olympic tris, maybe the odd half IM, are you interested?
I started a weekly fun duathlon with a friend on a site where I used to organize races in 1990. We're not trying to make it big, just a few people on the course, and choosing segments to "race". The rest of it, is distanced group stuff. It feels good. Its turning into our weekly world championships, but I think locally we'll have a good series next year of local events and demand for once will relatively high compared to when Mdot events were cannibalizing the local events.
My local race directors are all getting ready for next year. If I was less busy with my professional life, I'd probably step in and organize some smaller local events that are bare bones and stripped down (show up, you get a closed course, you get a chip, you get a time and results, go home). No frills. That was pretty well what my events were like in the early 90's other than you got a Tshirt and some pizza.