If you would be interested in sharing your race reports, race critiques and race opinions to a broader audience, please email me at nhobbs@etcemail.com. I am looking for several people that enjoy writing about their race experiences and are willing to share with others. Possible future compensation. Thanks in advance.
Go on Nick - tell them who you work for - everyone else advertises on the site!!! Those cranks / bars you got me are awesome - got around 6 races this summer - starting with a couple of oly’s, then a half iron finally wrapping up at Florida this year - would be happy to share experiences
No secret here - I work for TriSports.com, but I lurk the forum mainly for personal reasons not business. This post is purely personal as well. Thanks for the offer; I hope others are interested in sharing as well.
Thing is, I love to write reports sharing my tri experiences but since I’m not a world class athlete (YET lol) I thought people in Slowtwitch wouldn’t give any credit to it so… as for you, would my reports be any “help”?
If so, I’ll write you one on my next event… 
“I thought people in Slowtwitch wouldn’t give any credit to it”
Well, since there probably aren’t more than 10 or so folks here that ARE world class…that makes the rest of us more or less on your level, Pedro…I think ANY well-written race report is valuable. (Heck, it doesn’t even have to be well-written…just well-considered)…
One thing’s for sure…my experience of the multisport racing scene in Portugal is exactly ZERO.
I agree. Any race report is valuable. I am looking for variety of different levels of experience, ability and location. Thank you to those of you who have repsonded already.
One thing’s for sure…my experience of the multisport racing scene in Portugal is exactly ZERO.
Imagine this: one cervelo, one lightspeed, three quintana roos and the rest half is look bikes and the other half is giants.
One Ironman event a year with 50 guys or so, one long distance event (the nationals), three olympic races (one is the nationals), and a hand full of sprint races.
No such thing as a non-draft legal race (except the two long distance events), all ITU rules based.
Most triathletes belong to a triathlon team and most ONLY show up in races if they are in an extremely fit condition. “Doing it just for fun” isn’t enough most of the times. So you have 150 athletes in a race and most of them could be top5 age groupers in the US.
We are a small country with great conditions for triathlon but with very few support from any huge sponsors.
I know it’s hard to picture all this, living in the US where Triathlon is a very popular sport and where people actually do it just for the fun of it, some even without any proper training but this was just to give you some idea…
What does the women’s triathlon scene look like in Portugal?
I assumed that with such outstanding athletes as Fernandes the country would have a strong national team system, with a pyramid scheme of many young athletes of whom some progress to elite. Am I way off base? Or do you only have a couple women, some of which just happen to be exceptional?
Do you care how fast one is moving? We slower moving folks have more to write about - we see more at slow speeds!
No. Any speed is fine. Please shoot me an email and I will get you more information. Thanks.
The email has been shot.
Or do you only have a couple women, some of which just happen to be exceptional?
That’s pretty much how it is. We do actually have a strong national team system but the pyramid scheme of many young athletes you talk about doesn’t exist period although the National Federation is making an effort to build that up.
The strong national team system I talk about comes from a small number of individual triathletes racing. Here you don’t see many individual (so you picture it, some races have 1/2 individual guys) triathletes cause most of them join a team just after coming to the sport. But that’s how it works in Europe.
In the US you sometimes see triathletes racing as individual with their own sponsors. We don’t have guys like that here. Every top athlete belongs to a team and I really mean ALL of them.
email on the way
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While I am way behind on my reports for this year. I have quite a few up on www.transitiontimes.com/michigan
Well, if you would like write on your future races, just send me an email.
Thanks 
Just two more questions: how many ladies do you have in triathlon, and what’s the population of Portugal?
My favorite etailer! Good job trisports - glad you made an appearance.
We are 10,000,000. 10 Millions.
In triathlon races, usually you’ll have 6-7 finishing ladies in a 200 field. Less then 5% so.
In duathlons, the number can go up to 10 ladies, maybe.
Although this is an unofficial TriSports.com visit, thanks for the support. We do appreciate your business.
How sad for the boys 
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