What are the suggestions to the RD’s for the blatant drafters. It looked like the Tour out there today
I’m thinking of getting one of those helmet cams and putting it on the back of my hydrotail. Video proof of who sucked my wheel for 20k straight at the last race.
http://nativeoutdoors.stores.yahoo.net/gsmstcepc1.html
A 4GB card can do a 70.3 bike leg, and they cost like $10 these days.
I’m thinking of getting one of those helmet cams and putting it on the back of my hydrotail. Video proof of who sucked my wheel for 20k straight at the last race.
http://nativeoutdoors.stores.yahoo.net/gsmstcepc1.html
A 4GB card can do a 70.3 bike leg, and they cost like $10 these days.
If you some how prove that thing will add 2 watts over 112 miles, you have a winner in your hands. just jack up the price and they’ll sell like crazy.
Ban them from triathlon… people see them do it, and then others join in. It becomes mob mentality.
HFP needs to make their drafting penalty 15 minutes or better yet a DQ.
this is part of what I was gonna say in a different thread. What’s the real penalty here… you pick up 12-15 minutes on the bike for a 2-4 minute penalty…
Ban them from triathlon… people see them do it, and then others join in. It becomes mob mentality.
I’d say hang them right on the spot!
Ban them from triathlon… people see them do it, and then others join in. It becomes mob mentality.
I’d say hang them right on the spot!
Here here!
Rabble rabble rabble.
Drafting marshals need to carry a supply of frame pumps.
Just squirt them with your bottle and call them bad things…
“you %$#!ing cheating @#%$ $%&er - ive got your number and im going to @$%ing kick the #&$% out of your @^%#ing bike - #&% right off, #^%”.
If this fails, grab an extra bottle at the next aid station and throw it at them.
They soon learn.
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I like the IM penalty tent. At least you break up the packs.
I still don’t get what the purpose of drafting is?
I was having a fairly poor bike and got swallowed up by packs later in the ride. Those are not AG medalists unless they run like gazelles. Ride your own dang race. Unless you are very fast compete against your previous performance on the course or at the distance.
At IM I more understand as Kona spots actually mean something vs. a piece of medal and ribbon or a trophy.
they need knock the field limit down to 2/3 of the current size - or less. I love this race and this course, HFP puts on a really good event in general, and I’ve posted my two best HIM times in Racine…but I stopped doing it a couple years ago when they jacked the field limit up to around 2k. even with the usual # of no-shows it just got to be stupid crowded out there unless you were in the first wave or so. as flat and fast as that course is, they could make the $ back with a fee increase and still sell out easily to the PR-hunters.
Carl
I dont know what the hell was going on back there. I came off the bike around 8th or 9th place in the first wave. 2 miles into the run I saw the peletons coming in behind me. 20-30 people deep! Today I look at the results, a 2:30 bike split gets you about 235th place for the bike leg… Come on! THose guys (and girls!) should be ashamed of themselves!
Ban them from triathlon… people see them do it, and then others join in. It becomes mob mentality. No need to ban them, but in the future they will only be allowed to do the Silverman Tri. I’ve never seen any drafting there! (There must be some other races with similar profiles where it is difficult/impossible to get a paceline together. So they would be allowed at these races too.)
Hey, while they did not break up the peletons, I managed to get a 4 minute penalty for dropping equipment. My PT computer fell of my bike in transition, I did not notice it and an official found it. Well, when I got it back they tacked on 4 minutes to my run time for abandoned equipment. I went from 9thOA to 24th.
BTW, I Googled Earthed that swim , it came to about 1.1 miles. That plus the current that we swam with gave some stupid fast swim spits.
Still on of my favorite races however.
It did get pretty bad out there. Me and this other guy were playing frogger for a few miles leagally then got over taken by one group of 5-10 people then about a minute later the peleton passed by and sucked us up. During this time we were coming into a turn and they all actually pointed which way the turn was and I was asked if this was a group ride. One guy in the pack said if you can’t beat them join them. Lets just say in this group were a couple of people wearing a the same club kits of a very popular club. After the turn I costed and the group was gone and was averging around 22mph so they were easily doing 25-26. I had a slightly better ride then last year and a much better run and I think I placed worse in my age group this year. Drafting on the ride is always going to happen (maybe not as bad as this year) but I think the bigger impact is on the run. Those people that sit in the packs are hardly working so their legs are fresher for the run.