There's gotta be some common sense to the application of rules and I think some of yall's ideas are just a bit to out there. No way in hell it would be easy to navigate and officiate drafting in the water.

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Brooks Doughtie, M.S.
Exercise Physiology
-USAT Level II

This may be helpful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

Everthing could be solved with one extra drafting marshal who sits in a room with a laptop watching the slowtwitch thread

Would you care to elaborate? I am not sure if you are implying that both drafting in the water and on the bike are like having a moustache or rather something else?

I can probably have a few data scientists in my company write up some AI models to just watch ST threads and based on the natural language processing of the banter convert those accurately to time deductions that autmatically plugin to sportstats after the bike leg. LOL

You have to include the length of the reflectors themselves. Doesn't add much, but the way that officials measure it is that the back of the rear wheel needs to be in front of a reflector while the leading edge of the front wheel of the following bicycle must be behind a reflector. That makes it closer to 15m than the 13.5m you indicate.

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Well then there's this interview with Jimmy. Perhaps he's mistaken. https://www.triathlete.com/...s/konas-secret-rule/

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Genetics load the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger.

you are mixed fixed rules with judgement/ refed rules. We know what a goal is in hockey but the amount of clutching and hooking is a mix from game to game.

Also different umpired have vastly different strike zones.

NO one wants to foul, no one wants to hurt their chances.

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" Combine that gap with the length of the bike and the distance from front wheel to front wheel—the standard set by the rulebook—is about 13.5 meters."

My memory of the rule as Jimmy would explain it was, "you can't cross a reflector until the back wheel of the guy in front of you crosses the reflector in front." So that means the distance between the reflectors, plus the actual length of the reflectors (which average about 6" each), plus a bit of spacing, which nets out to a *front-to-front* distance of (about) 15m. I've always found the front-to-front nomenclature to be odd, as it doesn't reflect the *gap* between bikes. I.e., a 15m front-to-front spacing results in a 13.5m actually spacing. This was always my objection to a 10m draft "zone" - the spacing *between* bikes is much less than 10m.

I'm quite far removed from all of this now, and trying to remember 13.5m or 15m - especially when what really mattered to me was the spacing between bikes - is probably folly. Maybe Jimmy will chime in. If anyone is mistaken, it is almost certainly me and not Jimmy.

[PS - I emailed Jimmy to ask him if he'd come enlighten us...]

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp

I keep thinking this thread would be about Vincents brand new Shiv getting stolen at the bike shop.... fishing it with a hook and rope through a window in the roof in the night...... zero km ridden!

Heard on Breakfast with Bobs Daytona edition...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRuXRV4BB8