Here’s yet another moron story…
This guy comes rushing into T1 yesterday after a hellacious swim and gets all set up for the bike.
Helmet on: check
Sunglasses: check
Bike shoes: check
Gloves: check
So he’s all set to go and grabs his bike, then looks down and realizes HIS WETSUIT IS STILL ON!
I was lmao at the poor bastard, at least I would have been if it wasn’t me.
Yes it’s true.
Oh come on, don’t feel bad, it’s not like you trained for the race… ;-)))))))
Oh come on, don’t feel bad, it’s not like you trained for the race… ;-)))))))
Ha, if you think I didn’t train for running, you’ll REALLY think I didn’t train for the swim.
I think it happened because I was seriously shell-shocked from the swim (see my other post). Either that or it was my offhand remark I’d made earlier. It was so cold that morning that I told my buddies I was going to do the bike in my wetsuit to stay warm. At T1 when I looked down and saw my wetsuit was still on I thought, “I said I’d bike in my wetsuit but I didn’t really mean it!”
At my first ever tri, I pinned my number to my top before putting it on. I laid my top neatly over the bike with the plan of pulling it on after taking off the wetsuit.
When I did it expanded, ripping the number at each corner. It dropped to the ground after which I had to re-pin it to the shirt before heading out. In my haste I stuck my titty real good causing it to bleed.
I’m sure sure we all have a moron story to tell. Let’s hear them…
At my first ever tri, I pinned my number to my top before putting it on. I laid my top neatly over the bike with the plan of pulling it on after taking off the wetsuit.
When I did it expanded, ripping the number at each corner. It dropped to the ground after which I had to re-pin it to the shirt before heading out. In my haste I stuck my titty real good causing it to bleed.
I’m sure sure we all have a moron story to tell. Let’s hear them…
Yeah, re-pinning a number can just kill your T1 time. Yes, more moron stories, please. I know I’m not alone!
I borrowed a full-sleeve wettie for a cold water early season HIM (my first at this distance). Only ever wore it once prior to the race, put it on w/ help from the kind soul who lent it to me. How hard could it be?
I’m in the TA before the race, and I use the ‘plastic bag trick’ he showed me to get into it, and a dude next to me comments on how cool that idea is.
Yeah, it’s cool alright, worked great. Only problem was, I’d somehow gotten one of my legs into the ARM of the wetsuit. D’OH!!! Getting it out was even more fun, and no clever plastic bag to assist me either.
My first tri, I had planned to change into running shorts at T2. Well, they had changing tents, but the “doors” (okay, flaps) had torn off… So I just dropped trou anyway. What else was I gonna do? Run in my speedo? For the record, I put on biking shorts over the speedo for the bike leg. And this was an Oly!
Oi…
2nd tri, 1 minute before my wave was to go off, and I finally realize why my wetsuit didn’t feel all that good during my swim warmup… Low and behold, I have it on backwards with the zipper in front…
Wilkes-barre 2003 if anyone saw the guy frantically, changing as his wave was entering the water…
I was running hard trying to catch my friends after my usual bad swim and okish bike. I run past one of my friends and they laugh hard. I look at them and then realize I’m still wearing my swim cap one mile into the run.
John
"At my first ever tri, I pinned my number to my top before putting it on. I laid my top neatly over the bike with the plan of pulling it on after taking off the wetsuit.
When I did it expanded, ripping the number at each corner. It dropped to the ground after which I had to re-pin it to the shirt before heading out. In my haste I stuck my titty real good causing it to bleed."
I had a buddy who pinned his number all the way through the number, front of the shirt, and the back of the shirt. He must have turned it five different ways before figuring out his pinning goof, after which he commenced to do as you did above…we still chuckle over that one.
I’ve relayed this story before but it is worth repeating. A friend of mine (no, it wasn’t me, I would admit it) and total flirt was doing a duathlon. He said he was trying to catch this cute chick on the bike, but just couldn’t quite manage. Figured he’d catch up to her in transition and do the run with her.
So he had an unbelievably fast transition and exited T2 just behind her. He caught the girl and struck up a conversation with her, acting all cool I’m sure like he usually does.
At one point she asks him… “Do you mind if I ask you a question.”
“Why do you still have your helmet on?”
came into T2 after a better than expected bike, all set to nail the run and get a huge PR. But, the nearly empty racks completely threw my perception off and I couldn’t find my rack spot…I spent 6 minutes looking.
No, I hadn’t bothered to note the rack number…just the bikes around me.
“Why do you still have your helmet on?”
I did that at Alcartaz this year and realized it half way down the rack leaving transition. I had to run back to my bike to drop off my helmet.
Give four safety pins each to 300 people in a hurry early on a weekend morning.
Some comedy is more or less inevitable.
So I’m setting up in T1- bike is racked, helmet on bike, bike shoes on towel, race number belt down, I pull my right running shoe out of my bag. Then I pull my other right running shoe out of my bag. Gets me looking back and forth. Right shoe. Other right shoe. Right shoe. Other right shoe.
When I’d packed up my bag the night before, I’d somehow managed to grab the right shoe from my current pair of running shoe and the right shoe from my previous-retired for gardening use now- set of shoes since they were the same make and model.
Fortunately my Mom was at the race, and we’ve got roughly the same size feet, and since it was a sprint (only a three mile run) I got away with wearing her moonboot-like white, super puffy walking shoes for the run. Barefoot wouldn’t have been an option that day because there was still too much Ivan debris in the area, and I didn’t want to step on a nail or something.
I did that once. As i passed the exit of T2 my wife yelled, “your helmet.” And, of course, my bike was all the way at the other end. I was bailed out by a nice course worker, as I ran back to replace it. Whew!
Yes, I left my earplugs in one race and did not realize it until halfway through the run. I did manage a PR on the bike, it was so peaceful, so quiet, I just hammered away with no distractions. I finally noticed after passing a music station on the run and thinking boy that really is not very loud.
god i’ve been waiting for this thread so i could come clean.
first IM, get my bike back from the LBS. I JUST started biking the year before and I am a mechanical midget as it is. So anyway, I hear it’s always good to go over the bike after it comes back from the LBS, just to make sure they didn’t miss anything. No one told me you should know what the hell you are doing 
So, i get to the front derailler and notice the limit screws aren’t tightened all the way. so, i get the phillips head and screw those suckers down nice and tight.
On the second loop of the bike (LP), I figure I might want to get ioutta my 42 nto my 30 (was riding a triple) for the last few miles of rollers.
Can’t click outta the middle ring.
Figured out a couple of days later what I did. Good thing I wasn’t in the 52 when i tightened those limit screws or I wouldv’e been screwed!
Confession is good for the soul.
My husband was watching my wave go off at St. Anthony’s this past year. He said he walked by a guy wearing a TNT wetsuit (not that there’s anything wrong with that 
The guy was putting body glide all over the outside of his wetsuit. Marty politely told him that you actually put it on your body before you put your wetsuit on. The guy responded, “Oh!”
So, i get to the front derailler and notice the limit screws aren’t tightened all the way. so, i get the phillips head and screw those suckers down nice and tight.
Ha, that’s a good one! You probably heard somewhere that you should check all the bolts on your bike and make sure they’re tight. Makes sense…