And here’s a post and link to the World Triathlon interview/pod (wysiwyg), for those who want audio. It is not as good as @ironmandad 's article but covers the same ground.
Without a ‘class’ of competitors, discrete from ‘completers’, I struggle to see how a thousand red flashing lights is going to enhance the environment or change behaviours of amateurs (please let ‘age groupers’ as a term die off - no other sports uses this perjorative term; they have age goups but don’t demean participants thus - appreciate howling at the moon).
The GPS/tracking aspect is well worth pursuing. And there’s a safety/control benefit not mentioned.
As for the privacy side, that’s not a Race Ranger problem. Those data will be (is) provided to race organisers: they can address that (and Elvery suggests the way ahead on that).
