(warning: incoming self-appreciation)
My eyes can’t roll back far enough at some of your posts.
I won my AG at a M-dot IM earlier this year and got less than you did (no shit).
Pull your head in…
I believe you. the M-Dots are notoriulsy bad for prizes and schwag, but I would still be howling. Seriously though, winning an AG at an M-Dot IM is something to be proud of. 2nd AG at the local tri is a reason to find something to bitch about.
You and SneakySpeed would get along just great!
Give overall winners free entry next year, age groupers half price entry.
Jason, You need to calm it down a notch or two. Yes prize distribution isn’t the most fair thing out there, but getting second in an alleycat ain’t exactly the Tour De France either. I personally think they should have two age groups. Scratch and some sort of masters. If you ain’t at the front you ain’t racing for a win in my book. What kind of gear you running in the alley cat?
I see that sarcasm is also lost on you…
“Give overall winners free entry next year, age groupers half price entry.”
There’s got to be a reason races don’t do this. I just can’t think of what it is.
You think that your race was uneven prize distribution. I recently did a half marathon. I got second overall. and got absolutly nothing other then the finisher medal. First place got $500. I admit that i was a little disapointed But my time was over 6minutes off my PB. So it wasent that big a deal. You say that you had a great race, so why then are so disapointed that you got a bag of stuff for getting second in your age group.
I see that sarcasm is also lost on you…
Not *just *sarcasm…
“Give overall winners free entry next year, age groupers half price entry.”
There’s got to be a reason races don’t do this. I just can’t think of what it is.
You’re probably right, I wonder if it would be considered a cash prize and amateur status.
“Give overall winners free entry next year, age groupers half price entry.”
There’s got to be a reason races don’t do this. I just can’t think of what it is.
You’re probably right, I wonder if it would be considered a cash prize and amateur status.
Uh, no… that’s not it.
I have never gotten anything other than a medal/pint glass for winning my age group.
Overall winners sometimes get free shoes, gift certs, etc., but age group winners don’t get crap and I don’t really care. Even overall winners sometimes only get a placque or a trophy.
I would rather RDs pump the money into course protection and keeping entry fees down.
It is so ugly that it had to be a troll… but for some reason I clicked on it … now I cant look away.
Oh my goodness…the humanity! This is a heart breaking story. I’m going to send an email to the local news station trouble shooter and see if they can right this tragic impropriety.
Dude, if this is the biggest problem in your life then you should be grateful…very grateful.
Have you considered contacting Midol or Monistat for sponsorhip?
Your thread has put you in the running for an OA prize of a different kind. It’s for ‘Ginormous Vag and Bed Wetter 2009’…you are currently tied with this guy who didn’t get a water bottle at his Oly distance race:(
“Overall winners sometimes get free shoes, gift certs, etc., but age group winners don’t get crap”
That’s not true, we get to dance on the crushed dreams of the inferior members of our AG while telling ourselves if we were younger and better looking we could have actually amounted to something. That’s worth a lot.
I was 11 minutes ahead of the overall Athena, 5 minutes up on the overall Clydesdale, 5 and 10 minutes up on the overall beginners male and female, and 9 minutes up on the overall female masters. They all walked with cash equivalent prizes.
PS the kid that won the thing is on the USAT Junior elite team and will probably be in the Olympics one day.
That’s a lot of Over-alls. I think you can legitimately hope next year they’ll create a division just for you. You can win the Overall Male Whiny Division.
Alright, I have to eat some crow in this thread. I bought a pair of new (used) Sidi Energy road shoes off Ebay that I got in the mail yesterday. The auction described their condition as “They look brand new”. They do, but they smelled…manky. Anyway, I used the shoe stuffers I won last weekend in them overnight and now they smell like fresh cedar shavings and not dead person.
So I guess it was a pretty good haul after all.
Still, a $50 gift card would have been nice. I need a new chain.
One thing for certain, you can never bank on winning schwag at local races. And larger races sometimes are worse because they really don’t care what you think after they’ve got your entry fee, whereas smaller races truly want people to come back and help raise money for XXXX cause.
I’ve won anywhere from $150 for third overall at a small MTB race (that Tinker showed up to pluck the $500 first place $) to a beautiful 3x5 plaque for third in a National Championship race.
Wait, I see a trend here…third place is…second loser. Those other guys have to be cheating because it’s my world, you’re just visiting.
No sense of entitlement at all.
Writing this doesn’t make it true. Your posts indicate otherwise.
“Overall winners sometimes get free shoes, gift certs, etc., but age group winners don’t get crap”
That’s not true, we get to dance on the crushed dreams of the inferior members of our AG while telling ourselves if we were younger and better looking we could have actually amounted to something. That’s worth a lot.
I appreciate that sentiment, but before triathlon/running at age 30 I was “sand kicked in the face” kid and springsteen’s “glory days” definitely doesn’t describe me.
Mostly if I win my age group I become more concerned on overall placement.
Money/gift cards as a prize are dumb. I love when I pay $100 for a race and then get a $50 cash or gift card as a prize. It just feels like a bad deal.
Even when you win gear, most people who are winning already have that stuff. As if the guy who wins the swim prime really needs a free wetsuit. He probably got one for free anyway and is just going to hock it on ebay.
IMO, the best amateur prizes are distinctive awards that they do every year. Then it’s a nice memory and it becomes something age groupers can chase. I won a wooden duck at the Virginia Duathlon one year. It’s a nice souvenir. The syrup is another good example. As is that bad ass f’in knife.
I’d like to see more races do stuff like that. Have a signature item.