Subject: RE: Indelicate, but I have to askWhen I used to referee bicycle races the pre-race lines were always ridiculously long, and that was just for a bike race, w/o all the extras. There were never enough of them. I don't imagine the tri world is any better about it. I laughed like crazy when one of the senior refs told me that if I saw a guy stop pedaling and fiddle with the cuff of his shorts to change lanes, in a hurry. And then it happened during the Green Mountain Stage Race. I've also seen entire fields agree to stop so the entire field could "take a natural" as they called it. The first time it was a women's 3/4 race, the second was a men's 45+. I watched one guy stop at a 7-Eleven too. They had the rule against "public indecent exposure" too, but I never enforced it as long as the rider was trying to be discrete. |