UPDATE: Official Iron Race Discussion Groups

There is no StartThread link in my race log next to Ironman Cozumel ... ?

I also could not find it in the Iron Distance forum.

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Triatty - I'm looking into IM Cozumel.

Kathy, any IM from other countries should go to this forum...I just verified for a Canadian HIM.  Though this new way of doing things is not retroactive.  If any IM race threads were started before this post, they will still most likely be in their state forum...anyone can pm me or marmadaddy with the race link and we can move it to this forum.

Thanks, I appreciate it

Ron, is there any way the titles on these can be changed somehow to include the year?  It's going to get really confusing around here if every year is just called Official IMXX thread...

Though this sounds real simple to do, due to the logic of this whole 'race directory' to account for people submitting races, trying to prevent duplicates and updating entries to the next year, this may not be easily doable.

Is the reason for this the fact that somebody may want to start an IM thread for the following year BEFORE the current year's one is over?

Or are you concerned that an older thread would get ressurected when the race is done and people wouldn't notice the date it was started for?

*note, there ARE two IMAZ threads for 2009 going around, it would probably be wise to end the one with 3 pages and for people to use the other one labeled as the 'official thread' as that one is linked in the race log and race listing. (since it was started before the change)

That can easily work, though I don't want to create more work!

I was just thinking, no concern really -- this year the enthusiastic IMAZ09ers who registered on-site started a thread before some of the IMAZ08ers had crossed the finish line (well, not really, but close).  It just seems like the year-ahead signup will be a challenge -- the people who finish a race (e.g., IMCDA09) will want to post about it in their "official" thread and the new registrants (IMCDA10) will want start their own, so will the threads end up having the same title, IMCDA official thread?

gailg...yes, I think that is the heart of this unique problem due to the new race date being available the next day after the old one is done...and the fact that IM races are more and more popular here (see homepage poll)....

Currently we keep the old thread tagged to the race listing for about a month later for people to finish RR's and finish up the thread-while still finding it easy in their log.  Then after a month people can start a new thread....this usually works perfect for most races as most triathlon RD's don't update to next years race that fast.

I don't think there is a way around this unless we have a 'merge thread' feature (which we don't)...I will have to see if this is available for this forum software.

Ron --

Any idea why I can't start a thred for IM Cozumel 2009 ?

thanks

It works now...It needed a Mexico forum.