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 2009-09-23 12:18 PM in reply to: #2422042 |
Expert  803   MD |  Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves?X3,000,000 Kind of like cigarette smokers who toss butts out the window. WTF are those people thinking? It's not trash? Really? Grrrrr. |
| 2009-09-23 12:19 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Expert 721 Chenequa WI | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Breaststrokers on the swim course and racers riding in the middle of the road ... two abreast ... talking to eachother ... at 14mph (Yes, my swim is that slow). |
| 2009-09-23 12:20 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Member 167 Bloomington | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? After doing the Chicago Triathlon...ejected bottles. Ugh. |
| 2009-09-23 12:24 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Expert 1027 | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? I have a few: 1 - People who knock my gear around in transition, I have bumped a helmet off aero bars before and I took the time to pick it up and put it back on as close as I could. (Had a race where my helmet ended up 5 bikes down so knocking it off wasn't enough, they must have kicked it too) 2 - Trash tossers - no need for it 3 - Probably my biggest one is 3-5 wide swimmers. 5 races this year, 4 were waved starts, 3 of those I got stuck behind a wall of 3-5 guys swimming right next to each other for ever. I got stuck behind them and was polite enough not to crawl over the top of them for the next 200 yards until we made the turn. I guess this is why I always start to the outside and hope to pass a majority before converging into the turn. |
| 2009-09-23 12:25 PM in reply to: #2422202 |
| Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Gritty - 2009-09-23 1:19 PM Breaststrokers on the swim course and racers riding in the middle of the road ... two abreast ... talking to eachother ... at 14mph (Yes, my swim is that slow). Unfortunately, unless you are in the very first wave, start in the front and are fast, you'll probably run into people breaststroking. It's fine, as long as those aren't the folks starting at the front of each wave. Just sucks when you catch up to the slowest folks in the wave before you. |
| 2009-09-23 12:27 PM in reply to: #2422131 |
Expert 1146 Johns Creek, Georgia | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? I don't mind getting chicked if shes hot....my pace seams to pick up though! |
| 2009-09-23 12:27 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Pro 5011 Twin Cities | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Know how to put air in your tires. Seriously. The mechanics are there in case someone has a last minute technical problem. They aren't there to put air in your tires. Yet before every race, I see a line of 50+ people deep, and that's what they want. WTF? People: See those 7 or 8 pumps standing there? The reason there are 8 of them, and only one mechanic is BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PUT AIR IN YOUR OWN TIRES. |
| 2009-09-23 12:36 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Expert 994 Clio, MIchigan | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? I have been at races before where the race director tells people in the pre race meeting to yell on your left as you come up behind people. SOP as far as i'm concerned. |
| 2009-09-23 12:37 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
| Folsom, CA (Sacramento Area) | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? As a fairly good swimmer and ex-waterpolo player, it ticks me off to have people, who are clearly a 2 min + /100 swimmers, place themselves in front of the wave start as if this is going to make a big difference in their time. While you may gain a few seconds, you are getting on other people's way costing them way more time and energy. I mention my waterpolo background to make the point that I could get rough on the water but I choose not to "dunk" or "swim over" anybody. I think that if somebody tries to do that to me my instincts might take over and bring them down with me another Non race related pet peeve: when people on the locker room leave all their crap in the sitting bench and/ or the floor while they take a shower as if nobody else needs the space, Your mom is not going to come by and pick your crap up !! yesterday I felt like taking the guy's crap with me and toss it onthe garbage can outside the gym so he would go home wearing a towel. |
| 2009-09-23 1:07 PM in reply to: #2422224 |
Champion 8540 the colony texas | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? mmrocker13 - 2009-09-23 12:27 PM Know how to put air in your tires. Seriously. The mechanics are there in case someone has a last minute technical problem. They aren't there to put air in your tires. Yet before every race, I see a line of 50+ people deep, and that's what they want. WTF? People: See those 7 or 8 pumps standing there? The reason there are 8 of them, and only one mechanic is BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PUT AIR IN YOUR OWN TIRES. Ditto.. along with all the other ones listed.. I can see (though not excuse) people that are too caught up in the race to remember to think, but before a race, not knowing how to but air in the tires or messing with your stuff in transition before the race and of course. the guy that comes in at the last seconds of transition being open, and decides to attempt to squeeze into a great rack spot |
| 2009-09-23 1:16 PM in reply to: #2422202 |
Resident Curmudgeon 25290 The Road Back Gold member | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Gritty - 2009-09-23 12:19 PM Breaststrokers on the swim course and racers riding in the middle of the road ... two abreast ... talking to eachother ... at 14mph (Yes, my swim is that slow). Maybe you should breaststroke? |
| 2009-09-23 1:17 PM in reply to: #2422139 |
Veteran 217 Fairfax, VA | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? x2 on breastrokers the only thing worse than breaststrokers is - when doing a tri in 70's-ish water where some are wearing wetstuits and some are not, breastrokers wearing a wetsuits. What the hell good is that going to do you? |
| 2009-09-23 1:22 PM in reply to: #2422222 |
Veteran 217 Fairfax, VA | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? hrliles - 2009-09-23 1:27 PM I don't mind getting chicked if shes hot....my pace seams to pick up though! To me, the hotness factor increases 10x when a chick passes me. Plus - you got your pace booty for the rest of the race :-) |
| 2009-09-23 1:23 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Extreme Veteran 397 | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? i hate the beach towel size transition mats that take up 2-3 spots. |
| 2009-09-23 1:24 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Champion 11989 Philly 'burbs | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Relay people who hang around in the transition area. I realize you are waiting for your teammate, but I AM my teammate. Do not stand at the end of the racks and converse with the other relay runners. Someone may have gotten an elbow once. Maybe. |
| 2009-09-23 1:27 PM in reply to: #2422356 |
Champion 8540 the colony texas | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? red bikes... |
| 2009-09-23 1:29 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Regular 71 Charlotte | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Sorry about breastroking guys, my breastroke is actually just as fast as my freestyle, Not fast in the big picture but usually keeps me MOP. I always try to be way off to the side, and when rounding buoys I switch to freestyle till I can move away again. |
| 2009-09-23 1:30 PM in reply to: #2422356 |
Master 1485 | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? How about the MOP/BOPer that makes fun of the faster athletes. I overheard a guy saying "what's with these a-holes with their carbon bikes and aero helmets...don't they know this is just for fun?" |
| 2009-09-23 1:32 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Master 2802 Minnetonka, Minnesota | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? x3 on the breast strokers or other slow swimmers (who should know it) starting at the head of a wave. At a sprint this summer I eyed-up the people that were obviosuly trying to be the first in the water of my wave and spotted a big, tall guy in a really nice wetsuit who looked fit and like a good swimmer - ahh, my draft-guy! He bolted with Go!, dolphin kicked out a few lengths, then started breast stroking . I immedialtey hit his legs and thought wtf? He was so gung-ho to take the lead to then breast stroke? Other swim issues like getting run into etc. don't hit my pet peeve button as I feel it is just going to happen. You can't expect people to sight every 3 strokes in order to avoid others...you just hit the feet or legs (or get hit) then move to the side to pass. |
| 2009-09-23 1:32 PM in reply to: #2422373 |
Expert 721 Chenequa WI | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? jonmetz - 2009-09-23 1:30 PM How about the MOP/BOPer that makes fun of the faster athletes. I overheard a guy saying "what's with these a-holes with their carbon bikes and aero helmets...don't they know this is just for fun?" Those are also the guys riding next to each other. But, at least they're having fun. |
| 2009-09-23 1:46 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Master 1728 Pulaski TN | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? I do several tris that have the swim in the pool and I cannot stand when people block you in the pool. In open water you could go out wider but in a pool sucks.And then this gets me to another one which is swim times..tell them close to what you can do that way people wont need to pass as much(again all these are for pool tris)
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| 2009-09-23 1:46 PM in reply to: #2422171 |
| Alpharetta, Georgia | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? smalls82 - 2009-09-23 12:09 PM lisac957 - 2009-09-23 11:43 AM People who scream "LEFT LEFT LEEEEEFT ON YOUR LEEEEEEEFT" and I am all the way to the right-hand side with no one else in sight. Seriously. I hear you. Continue being fast and passing me while I continue to hug the gutter. No need to scream like a banchi and imply that I'm doing something wrong when I am clearly not. Sometimes that really is what needs to be done! Maybe Andy Potts would have missed a stay in the hospital if he would have made sure that the person on the right new he was there. Its happened to me several times even after I tell them I am passing, someone swerves right in front of me.At an Oly I spectated last weekend the bike course was 4 loops. A lady just beginning her 1st loop came up to the "intersection" where the riders were beginning their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th loops and she starts screaming "GET OUTTA MY WAY!!! LEFT LEFT LEFT!!! MOOOVE IT! OUTTA MY WAY!" I actually said "get over yourself" as she passed. No one was doing anything wrong on this multi-loop course. I think she was just mad she was so far behind everyone else. But it was soooo not called for. There's a difference between letting someone know you're there and screaming just to hear your own voice. And... there is a difference between saying "on your left" when you suspect someone will swerve (saw them swerve from a distance or something) and screaming it at the top of your lungs for 56 miles nonstop. |
| 2009-09-23 1:49 PM in reply to: #2422422 |
Champion 11989 Philly 'burbs | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? lisac957 - 2009-09-23 2:46 PM smalls82 - 2009-09-23 12:09 PM lisac957 - 2009-09-23 11:43 AM People who scream "LEFT LEFT LEEEEEFT ON YOUR LEEEEEEEFT" and I am all the way to the right-hand side with no one else in sight. Seriously. I hear you. Continue being fast and passing me while I continue to hug the gutter. No need to scream like a banchi and imply that I'm doing something wrong when I am clearly not. Sometimes that really is what needs to be done! Maybe Andy Potts would have missed a stay in the hospital if he would have made sure that the person on the right new he was there. Its happened to me several times even after I tell them I am passing, someone swerves right in front of me.At an Oly I spectated last weekend the bike course was 4 loops. A lady just beginning her 1st loop came up to the "intersection" where the riders were beginning their 2nd, 3rd, or 4th loops and she starts screaming "GET OUTTA MY WAY!!! LEFT LEFT LEFT!!! MOOOVE IT! OUTTA MY WAY!" I actually said "get over yourself" as she passed. No one was doing anything wrong on this multi-loop course. I think she was just mad she was so far behind everyone else. But it was soooo not called for. There's a difference between letting someone know you're there and screaming just to hear your own voice. And... there is a difference between saying "on your left" when you suspect someone will swerve (saw them swerve from a distance or something) and screaming it at the top of your lungs for 56 miles nonstop. Yeah, there is obvious subtext some times: 1. Just a heads up, I'm passing on your left. 2. I'm fast, get the eff out of my way. |
| 2009-09-23 1:49 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
| Member 91 Egham, England | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? Definitely breast strokers. And also of particular annoyance to me was a girl in T1 the other day that, after she heard me swearing to myself, said - 'there's no need to race'... Really - when would be a good time to race then if not in an actual race? |
| 2009-09-23 1:49 PM in reply to: #2422032 |
Veteran 196 Arlington, VA | Subject: RE: Tri Etiquette - what are your pet peeves? People who writer letters to the editor of the Washington Post complaining that it took them longer to get to church one weekend out of 52 in a year. (OK, I guess there's also the Marine Corps Marathon and the Army Ten Miler that mess up traffic.) I bet there are 200 churches between this guy's house in Falls Church and Georgetown--try one of those for a change once a year. Religious tolerance and diversity are good things. Or bike to church. Exercise is important to us all in a nation of overweight people. But why must we contend with so many events that disrupt traffic and make it difficult to get around? Can't planners consolidate their routes to a more centralized and smaller area away from bridges and major roads? TIMOTHY R. BENNETT
Falls Church |
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