His swim is fine, 55mins isnt fast but not an issue, his issue is much too slow on the bike
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I also started to read this. Saw a response with something along the lines of asking for a reduced entry for their next race 
Jog on
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In that case, the speed I’m running at IM will be paying me at this rate!
I’d 100% get the finisher pix though, tri”s and bi”s look mint at the min!
#slowbutmuscular!
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Last time I saw something like this was a lady, she was super slow but had HUGE tyres, schwalbe marathon plus things… running 40? PSI …?! changed them out and she was reeeet.
Most of this is inexperience, equpt choices and lack of any real training.
Some go on to be quite good, some get back on the couch
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That was in the US wasn’t it?
She finished the run and I don’t believe they gave her a medal
Some uproar about that
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People should read this article from my mate Robbie Britton.
The bloke on IMJ should stop making excuses and looking for someone to blame, instead he should look at what he could have done differently and what to do next time.
Like the example you used of the lady with huge tyres, you identified an issue, fixed it and she was fine.
My point “if you cant ride 90km at 23kph”… if you cant do this, look at the reasons, maybe what you need to do is to change tyres, don’t wait to discover this in your race
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I had a real life conversation along similar lines. If any of you have have stayed at the Atlantic Hotel in Tenby for IM Wales, you may know the lovely guy that runs the breakfast restaurant ( Mr White).
In 2017 there were so many DNFs due to the conditions. At breakfast on Monday he was saying that there should be a different cut off time for those raising money for charity as it wasn’t fair. I said it was the same for everyone and don’t enter if you don’t think you could at least have a chance of finishing.
He just kept saying ‘ but it’s charidee’ !
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Someone within the Pirates failed to make cut-off in his first IM, signed up for our trip the following year and failed to make cut-off again, we asked him the day after what he’d changed in his training, nothing was his reply, guess that’ll be why you failed again then.
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If someone DNF d due to awful conditions I’d still pay up as if they had completed.
DNS they can do one.
I get they were not happy with the DNF.
Triathlons and especially the longer distance events are a strange sport, to not expect to attract some strange personalities is naive.
We are all mostly very different on here, we just don’t end up having big rows like the rest of the virtual world …. I’m still not sure why that is to be honest ?
IMJ is brilliant, informative, funny, fresh and some proper rows over stupid shite.
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I saw a YT clip of an American going for his 5th or 6th attempt at finishing one ( he didn’t! )
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Oh I would absolutely pay up if they DNFd. I don’t see why the charity should suffer due to their incompetence/ignorance. It’s the sense of entitlement that doing something for charity gets you a free pass that does my head in.
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I ignore stuff on IMJ as its 99% morons, just went and found this. What they hell was he doing in transition for 11 minutes? My first 70.3 I was in there for 2.
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Dan may need to pay a visit, I’m still banned, still no idea why
remind me who that was??
Tonka Boy, think it was Nice/Switzerland
recent comment on this thread
“Next time if this ever happens just carry on and at the end of the race see the race Marshall and tell him.They do this in evey race and athletes don’t realize thats how it works.Just because an official comes upto you and says race over doesn’t mean you have to stop and call it a day”
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probably followed by a complaint that there were no aid stations on the run at 2.45am…
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Maybe marshals don’t get it right every time, however, you cannot have a situation where competitors ignore marshals, if a marshal makes a decision and the athlete carries on, then they are no longer part of the race, its an automatic DQ
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ah - Tonka. yes. never going to make it with his approach.
let me correct you. competitors can happily ignore marshalls who are not there to enforce rules but to assist in the running of the event. it’s the Technical Officials (TOs) who manage and enforce rules and can DQ competitors but we work closely with the event organiser and their marshals to ensure rules are applied fairly and consistently and work together as a team. it’s an important difference!!
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