It’s called Blocking…
It’s also called entering and exiting the zone. Once a rider has over taken another…the rider that has been overtaken must immediately DROP BACK. After they have cleared the zone (to the rear), they can mount an attack (if they wish).
What I usually see…after a rider has broken the front wheel of another…there is a little cat/mouse than occurs. Remember…you must pass on the left. The rider that was over-taken and now broken (2) rules.
**I don’t worry about it is all. UNLESS they are using me to cut the hole. Then I let them know. **
OK, I think I misunderstood your previous post. Sorry 'bout that.
if they come up from behind you (or you see they will be doing so soon when you pass them on a turnaround)…slam on the brakes and skid sideways taking as many of them out as is humanly possible. Sure you’re gonna hurt a bit but if you do it enough times maybe people will get the hint…or at the very least be worried as hell when they come up on you. Few things irk me so much as people who draft (cept maybe those that get mad at volunteers…that warrants death in my book). Throw away the rule book and let’s have full contact tris I say.
ANARCHY!!!
Again, you don’t have to let yourself be over taken. You can speed up before it happens and prevent it.
Styrrell
I think that part of the problem is philosophical and the other part is practical. The philosophical part is how we define the bike leg in a triathlon and when you think about it, it is a bit of an odd beast. Many people think that it is an ITT, but it’s not really that - you are actually racing head to head. However, you have been “seeded” by your performance in the swim, or in this case the first run leg of a duathlon. Now despite the fact that you are racing head to head like you would be in a bike road race, you are racing/riding under somewhat modified ITT rules. Confused yet?
The practical part is that few if any multisport athletes actually ride like this in training - it’s either group rides or solo rides. Few actually do race sim rides at race pace efforts, in traffic trying to keep the respective distances to adhere to the no-drafting rules. When it happens in a race, many seem a bit shocked, perplexed and not sure what to do. Clearly their are options, but depending on a number of factors some of these options may be difficult to do.
2.Try to stay at the front: If you are strong, not a bad choice, but someone will invariably come around and then you will have to drop back and then surge to the front again. It’s this sort of yo-yo’ing pacing that can fatigue the legs more than a hard steady effort.
No easy answers.
Fleck
Wow…I couldn’t do this race (due to my post-LASIK vision issues), but it would have ticked me off as well. There’s been issues with this before at some of these events, though in the several times I’ve done them, I don’t recall anything as bad as you describe.
Maybe it was just a one time deal - we’ll see if it happens again in Queens. Hopefully, I’ll be there!!
Kudos to the age grouper who refised his/her reward!!
Come on Jon, impossible to get race numbers? Put a bento box on that Kuota of yours so you can store a pen and a pad or a digi cam- never say impossible!!!
Seriously tho- congrats on your race, considering a couple of months ago you couldnt even run pain free let alone race!
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Thanks Jason,
Yeah some guy showed me some stretches that seemed to work pretty well for that running pain.
Bento Box… No way! Only when they make one in Carbon.
anytime young stud!
As far as I know any urine, snot, or stinky air that I discharge on the bike will be safe to encounter approx. 7 meters behind me at racing speed. If a group of people are filling up this space I can check their slime tolerance.
Spitting into the wind may piss some people off, but what are they going to do? Go to the RD and complain that you spit on all 25 of them at once?
I wanted to give this forum an opportunity to read comment from the actual person who surrendered his AG award at the Brooklyn Bi. It it an unusual for our times act, may be even too chivalrous, but in my opinion drives to the two unsolvable topics: inconsistent compliance with rules by participants and inconsistent supervision by RD’s and officials (if USAT event).
I am copying this e-mail with author’s permission. Being an athlete I coached in the past, he later added a comment that he was a bit embarrassed about his time (due to lack of training), and than politely added that he would prefer that his “rant” would not get back to the athletes that he was addressing so as to avoid any bad blood.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ryan Fibiger
Date: Apr 19, 2005 5:00 PM
It was me indeed, but keep in mind that I was the only participant who
admitted to drafting when over half of the participants were caught up
in a peleton of sorts. Mine happened to contain about 60 people,
including the second place finisher in my age group. I admitted to
drafting at the awards ceremony, gave back my trophy, and was given a
two minute penalty. My watch time was 1:29:34, and I was only
involved in the draft for about 3 miles.
Needless to say, I was really upset that other winners didn’t follow suit
and give back the hardware. ryan
Here’s a situation that I experienced last year at the Tiburon Triathlon, a low key sprint. Officially, on the website, drafting was not illegal, but it was discouraged for safety reasons (Why not declare it illegal, then?). Most likely because they didn’t want to be bothered with enforcement. The bike leg was pretty strung out where I was so drafting was a non-issue until 2 guys came flying by and I went with them for awhile along with a fourth guy. The guy leading the way wore a distinctive yellow jersey. Well, what do you know, half-way through the run I start to come up on yellow guy, still on his bike, pacing his buddy. So I start to get pissed off realizing that, instead of legal drafting, this guy has his buddy pull him through the bike leg (yellow guy led the whole way that I observed). Realizing that turning them in at the finish would only increase my stress level (being a rather low key event, they probably wouldn’t care anyway) I decide to use the adrenaline to outrun the cheater, which took me to a decent run split and a 15 sec gap over the him.