You might be a BOPer if... (Page 3)

You have been lapped by the race winner of your sprint who's out for his second 5K "for fun".

You suck it up as much as possible and pass that 75 year old guy so you can get a finishing photo without him in it LOL.  

You have been passed in a race by someone dressed up as a character... that damn bumble bee was fast.  

You have scouted last years results to see how slow you can go and not be DFL.  

You have ever said DFL>DNF>DNS and really understood what you were saying and really believed it with all your heart!

You get to cheer on the other racers and mean it.  There is camaraderie in the BOP that makes it worth doing.  

You have done wave calculations in your head to figure out if that person you passed on the run is ahead of you. 

Haha - mrs. gearboy subscribes to the belief that if you can walk faster, then you get off and walk.  Which explains why she often laps me going uphill! (And why we could never get a tandom...)

People stop lapping you so you stop and ask a race official how many people are behind you, and he laughs.

 I haven't done a tri yet but this happened to me in a mountain bike race.  To make it even more embarrassing I only did the 5 mile race.  If I remember right the max distance was 30 miles.  That's the last time I believe an advertisement for a race which states it's only for fun.

• ... it takes you until the marathon halfway point to catch up to a guy who is running in a Rhinoceros suit ...
• ... you pass a guy in a Rhinoceros suit at the marathon 32k mark and wonder how the hell he passed you unnoticed and managed to stay ahead of you for another 10k ...

Happened to me at the '06 NYC marathon. BTW, turns out there were actually 2 guys running in Rhinoceros suits - go figure!