The comments at the bottom are outstanding.
I was just scanning through the race photographer’s pictures for last weekend’s Pacific Coast Triathlon and stumbled across this gem.
Not very aero. Maybe he was placing an order for delivery at the end of the bike leg?
Yeah going back to my earlier post, I’d have to kill somebody if I saw that. Only acceptable reason for that is if your wife’s due date is the same day as your race and you want to be able to make it to the hospital on time
WTC receives rules waivers from USAT to modify or extend some of the rules, for ex. you’ll never see a wetsuit at Kona even if the water temperature falls within USAT wetsuit legal temperatures.
Look in the Athlete Guide for Ironman and you’ll see no phones are allowed. If everyone just kept them put away in a pocket and never seen i doubt there would be rule, however, we all know it takes that small handful of narcissistic, selfie-taking, texting, athletes to necessitate the rule and those folks are out there already.
The OP asked why phones are illegal in races, not in WTC race or even USAT races.Personally, I would have no reason to ever refer to the Ironman Athlete guide b/c I boycott their overpriced, overcrowded races. Based on Charlie Crawford’s quote in another response they are allowed to be carried in USAT events and used when stopped to make emergency calls. I was in a non-sanctioned triathlon a few years ago and the RD highly recommended that we carry cell phones b/c parts of the course were kind of out in the middle of nowhere. Several of us went off course (one person even ended up riding into another state b/c there was a turn arrow that was very easy to miss). For me it would have been useless to have carried it for anything other than using it as a stopwatch though b/c I had absolutely no cell service there!
When I did Chesapeakeman 10 years ago, I did see a woman from New England talking on the phone during the run leg asking about the Red Sox score as they were trying to make it into post-season play. I am not sure if that constituted an emergency call; perhaps it does for a Red Sox fan. LOL!
-leh
The selfie bandit:http://wittyandpretty.com/...and-took-20-selfies/]
Oh, yes, I remember that thread here and also the
blowback that came about on Runner’s World. Witty and pretty? How about no and no?
Not very witty, definitely not very pretty, better title: “hag, your it”
Why would anyone want or need a phone during a race.
“Hey cutie, you just passed me … I looked up your bib and checked your Athlinks; you should be done about 20 minutes before me; plenty of time to have a drink & clean up before I finish … you up for a little T3 action? Hello? Hello?”