Subject: RE: Toronto Triathlon festival Bike CoursePerhaps for the Olympic the swim course was different (hopefully and likely) but on the sprint there was a 90 degree turn roughly 50 m into the course which everyone reached simultaneously, causing an unnecessary bottleneck that wasn't a particularly positive way to start the day (plenty of contact in my wave). Not sure why spectators were allowed in the corral area of the swim start, that was crowded enough as it was, and the lack of the 5 minute warmup were were promised was a drawback. I believe the Saturday briefing is a requirement of Triathlon Canada and/or some other governing body and is not the fault of TTF. Something like that should be available to watch online, there wasn't much info available for the amount of trouble it took out of towners to attend, but luckily the tiny expo helped make it worthwhile with at least some of the stuff on sale. I enjoyed the day and hope the event will last beyond the Pan Am games, but am doubtful. |