Do you race as a clyde or AG?

If you are fit, muscular and over 200#'s, you are a clyde.

Doesnt matter you height, weight or BM!.  If you're over 200 pounds, you are a clyde.

Race what you want and where you would feel more comfortable, where you think you'll fit in more and dont worry about it.  If youre over 200#'s you have every right to be in the category.  But dont think that the clyde cat is an easy or handicapped category.  It all depends on who shows up that day.

If you think you want to go to nationals or qualify for Kona, then race AG as there isnt a Clyde category.

I race clyde because I feel thats where I belong.  I've never been an endurance athlete, but Ive been athletic all my life, and I've always been bigger than most.  I was 195# playing football, basketball and lacrosse as a freshman in High School (27 years ago) and I'm at 210 today.

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I notice at races the clydes that show up on a regular basis are built similar to me, big frame, tall and muscular.  My only hang up (for me anyway) is asking the person doing the marking to put a "C" on my chicken leg calves.

I am 59 years old, 6 ft and 210 to 215 pounds.  I have been trying for the last three years to get back to my 185 high school weight but without luck.  When I come home from a work out get out of my way, cause I am eating everything in the house, hot, cold, or old.  Thank goodness for sports or else I would be a balloon.

I have never raced in clyde division, but I guess should consider it next time.  In cycling, I can hold my own on the flats and descending, but going up hill, no matter how hard I train, I feel the 200 plus pounds like an anchor.  It can almost be embarassing as I get passed going up, and then fly by the others on the way down only to be passed at the next hill.

I actually hate running as it kills my hips and knees.  More training doesn't really help just hurts more.  At the end of the last 1/2 mary, I felt like....well I'm sure you all know the feeling.

Ya I think I will try the division for the next race.  It couldn't hoit.

I am new and will be doing my first Sprints this year after training up for 5 months.  I am 43, 6'1" and started out at 236 lbs.

I don't have much hope of getting below 200, so I am going to race Clyde.  I also believe that while there is a good chance I won't bring up the rear in Clyde, I also believe that there is an equally good chance that I would in my AG.

After this first year and lots more training and events, I will revisit the decision.

M.

I am 6'8" and about 205. I'm tri-ing in Holland right now where they don't have the clydes/athena division. Do you guys see those sort of people (tall, "borderline"-clyde) signing up in the clydes division? 

I guess you'd have the "right" to sign up as Chris says, a clyde is a clyde. Just wondering how it works. And I've seen that the FOPers in Clydes division can hold their own in their AG, which I think is a good thing to have for this division.

We have to drag the 200+lbs through the course, regardless if its muscle or fat :P 

Im 26 so basically need to break top 10 over all to break top 3 in my AG, where I can usually place 3rd in smaller races as a clyde.  Like others said, its usually just taller guys (Im 6'4) so its not like I am taking advantage of anything.

I raced as an Athena for a long time.  I am, and probably always will be, eligible to race as an Athena but once I got to the point where I had improved and would consistently podium, I decided it was time to pursue a new challenge and started registering AG.

I find it fun to compete against people who are just above my level. I don't really concern myself with people far above my level because what's the point?.  If you would be mid-pack as a Clyde then that is the perfect place for you, regardless of your "appearance" in comparison.  I've had my a$$ handed to me many a times by people who "look" like they wouldn't be fast and I have no doubt that many people have questioned whether I was truly an Athena.  

Now, I will say that I've also held onto the hope that at some point I will be below the cut off but no matter how much I train, I stay around the same weight, and I don't think I'll ever have enough will power to ever actually diet. 

I'm 5'4" and being a female I refuse to tell my weight. I've raced in the Big Girl Cat and in my Age Group. Personally I perfer to race with the other bigger girls. I am a some what slow swimmer and racing in my age group means that I'm swam over a lot. But when I'm with the bigger girls I can keep up then catch up to everone else on the bike and finally hold my place on the run.

So I think it all depends on where you feel comfortable. You do have every right to race with the larger folks, but you can also race in your age group. I would suggest doing one of each to see what one you prefer. Good luck!