What about spectators? I didn’t see any mention on that.

Like the details I've read so far, including encouraging athletes to wear masks around race venues, but I would want to see more details regarding density reduction in transition and on course before registering for a race. Of course, they are going to keep the merchandise store on site. ;)

can we keep this one when the world gets back to normal?

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"athletes are encouraged to use hydration vests"

I can't be the only person to remember Sanders at Kona doing this...

Not so sure about the whole carry your own hydration thing...

I am trying to visualize how this will work and I think I know how it works.

• Big long spaced line up to start the swim that goes 1km long per 500 athletes (2m spacing)
• You load up your special needs bag and you drop it off at the special needs pick up zone before the race
• During bike race, you stop, and get your special needs bag....you risk touching bags of others but that's the risk you take if you use that....if not carry all your own....you lose whatever time you will lose at special needs, but that's just part of the race now
• On the run race, you can run with your own fuel belt, or you can pick up whatever you want at an aid station yourself. You may be close to another athletes or even ending up rubbing shoulders at an aid station, but that's the risk you take

I can see this working in real life. On the run, you're going to pass and be passed, but that's not different than running in the local park in most cities.

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You only need to stop once during an Ironman ride to reload your nutrition. For a 70.3 ride,no need to stop at all.

Ultra trail runners have been carrying their own nutrition for years.

Triathletes just need to adjust their thinking.

I agree. Every 70.3 I’ve participated in, I’ve seen more than a handful of people running with fuel belts or hand held bottles. A lot of races are going to this method anyway to attempt to become more “green” and cut down on trash/waste.

I’m all for being inconvenienced a little if it means returning to racing soon.

As we used to say in the Army: This briefs well, but this is jut not going to work.

I do like the whole elimination of the athlete meeting though!

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Agreed with both of your comments.

Just like the similar USAT document it’s a lot of words, saying almost nothing, with no particular details about how any of it is going to be real world implemented.

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I seriously don't understand the point of a health screening, especially at athletic events.

If you feel bad and DON'T stay at home, are you then going to admit that to some rando stranger?

What's the point?

Health screening was already a part of packet pick up.

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Washed up footy player turned Triathlete.

I believe Lisa Bentley used to carry all her nutrition/liquid or an IM. 2 behind the saddle, two on the frame, and one between aerobars.

3rd overall in Kona and too many other IM wins to remember.

She was also a 125 lbs woman, so that 5 bottle plan for an IM may not work for larger males. But hey, she was carrying around 6 lbs of liquid with her on a 125 lbs body, so its not insignificant.

Ultra folks can have outside assistance?

IM should allow this.... have your crew support you on both bike an run... just get rid of aid stations.... have a little team work and strategy.

The goal is to limit the amount of people on the course not add to it.

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goal is to limit density not necessarily numbers

The only time I have ever had any type of health screening at a race was the last IM I did in December where I got weighed. It sounds like this will be going into a lot more detail than that. As OP mentioned, who is going to tell some random stranger they don't feel good and risk being excluded from the race. I would bet it is just an attempt by IM show they are making and effort, so they can minimize there liability if anything happens.

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Oh yeah,that would work just great,over a thousand individual crew vehicles on course.Holy shit,it is bad enough to control 50 of them in Ultraman.The multi Irons do well with crews and not aid stations using a pit lane set-up but again,very low numbers.

Sometimes the idiot masses need to be controlled by rules because they are just that,idiots.

Assuming all else equal, are enough folks going to be lining up to volunteer for a socially distanced Ironman™ ? I know I wouldn't be. Like others said, these guidelines seem like a lot of fluff and no real-world substance.

I agree with much of what is said above. In particular: (1) IM events which already rely heavily on volunteers, are going to have serious difficulty getting people to sign up as volunteers going forward; (2) these high-level guidelines sound good and are very similar to guidelines being produced by many others for a whole host of purposes, but are short on implementation details in an IM event context; and (3) what about spectators?

do they mean that their will be enough bike pump for everyone and toilette paper for everyone all day?!?

Spectator guidelines:
- ban spouses from pushing double-wide baby strollers (empty) where they are oblivious to their surroundings
- ban the avg 1.93 kids (at least one should be in the empty stroller) from aimlessly wandering/running around where they are oblivious to their surroundings. The wandering gets worst as the day goes on as that very brief enthusiasm from the early morning quickly faded away as they wait...and wait...and wait..and wait...wait for that micro-second opportunity to yell "you look great" to their racer.
- ban same from dragging a pull wagon where they are oblivious to their surroundings loaded with enough supplies to base camp for a month.
- ban "Big Head" signs
- ban families from all wearing the same home-made "support" shirts

Asking athletes to bring their own nutrition and fluid is not undoable. There are lots of very very long self-supported races. I already try to carry my own nutrition on the bike and only pick up bottles of water.

It seems like it might mean the rules would also change. If you drop a bottle you will have much bigger reasons and pressure to pick it up. It doesn't explain (yet) if there would be hydration offered in some other way. It seems like a safety minded race director would really want to at least have places to pick up water on a 112 mile summer bike ride. But if there isn't any offered how can you prohibit people from leaving the course or taking assistance from strangers. If you misjudge how much to bring - you just might really need that flexibility.