What exactly is an Elite athlete and what can they enter?
Jules
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If you're an Elite triathlete, do you have to register that you are one? What races are you then allowed / not allowed to enter?
I ask because at Bala yesterday there was no elite wave or seperate elite race, but the winners of the mens and womens races were both from Team ActivInstinct, which appears to be a sponsored, full-time training professional team.
I'd assumed that that if you were Elite you couldn't enter age-group races?
I ask because at Bala yesterday there was no elite wave or seperate elite race, but the winners of the mens and womens races were both from Team ActivInstinct, which appears to be a sponsored, full-time training professional team.
I'd assumed that that if you were Elite you couldn't enter age-group races?
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that aside, it does sound unsporting!
What constitutes an Elite.Someone who can make money from racing triathlons by consistently getting high placed finishes.there isn't really a time,but for OD I would say about Sub 1hr52m for men and sub 2hr for women to stand a chance of not being made to look silly as you're lapped on the run.
Now the problem really starts when you ask when a Pro/Elite can enter IM races as an age grouper to gain a slot for the WTC championship.Are they taking other athletes places?,is it as you say unsportmanship like.
Phil Graves (he is also a member of Team Activeinstinct) competed at Allerthorpe 2 weeks after winning the U.K Ironman (i was cheering him in at the finish in Bolton)..
At Allerthorpe there was no prize money, but i got a kick out of being in the same race as that guy, even though i didn't see him for long.
I was definately asking the question theoretically. From well down the list of finishers, this does not directly affect me
1. previous performances in same event
2. within my age group
3. overall placings
So their presence does not intimidate me; the opposite I think 'aha made the buggers sweat to get that place' - (yeah wishful thinking). So from an old git perspective 'elites' are just part of the 20-25 and 25-30 age groups and are of no relevance to me.
Rambling on and tangenting OT, apart from the straightforwd 50-55 group I have also been in Veteran and Super Veteran groupings which in some events means aged 40+. I wish there would be more consistency in that respect as in one event I could come in the top third for my 50-55 age group and in another middle because the 'Vet' ranks are swollen by competitors who are 12 years younger than me.
She can turn up at my event anytime she wants, she might spur me on to a sub 2:30 finish
Can't say I blame you but I reckon she really fancies the'mature' bloke, y'know someone who is say perhaps 52
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day
there ain't no way that 2:30 is referring to hours if you managed to be 'racing' with her. fnar fnar woof etc
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We be having a Pirate themed day on our privateer on that day - well OK we put on pirate hats in the office, I won a bag of crisps for worst effort, apparantly pirates are supposed to have parrots on their shoulders not teddys
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