Funny Triathlon Moments
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BigGus posted 1 year ago.
I've got my own most embarrassing moments. In my first tri, I actually toweled off in T1 with a big fluffy bath towel and didn't grab my bike until I was bone dry, as shocked onlookers were agape with disbelief.
Last year my wife snapped a picture of me in T2 while smearing vaseline between my thunder thighs.
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azstinger11 posted 1 year ago.
Ok so in my wisdom I decided during a race I'd try to take off my shoes and leave them on the bike for T2 for the very first time. About a mile out I undo my shoes and get my feet on the top of my shoes or so I think. Ok the dismount area is a carpeted area with sand on both sides (thank god). So anyways i swing my right leg over the bike and am ready to get off, well sometime between when I got my foot out of the shoe and the dismount somehow my foot got back in. So when I went to dismount and start to run I had a very shocky experience of still being attached to the bike, oh what a spectacular crash luckily I didn't get too badly hurt well besides my pride.
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Tikal Dog posted 1 year ago.
I think this was last year........ I got to see this guy packing a TP roll in his bike. He said for some reason it was quite common for him to stop for #2 during a race.
Don´t know why he didn´t change his eating strategies if it was that common.
Another funny thing some guys do in the most famous Tri here in Guatemala is that they start joking around about how a crocodile almost bit some guy the last year. (of course they do this when they see a frighten newbie). There are no crocodiles in that lake but there are some smaller lagoons nearby with many crocs in them. (of course this is not in central Guatemala, but in Peten where survivor took place, we have one of the coolest races there) it´s somewhat funny to see the newbies all frighten up. Of course it was not that funny when I was the newbie.
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bokchoy posted 1 year ago.
I didn't actually see this because I was swimming at the time, my family filled me in.
When the first wave took off one of the men in the lead went around the first buoy and cut straight in to the beach instead of heading for the next buoy. The kayakers were yelling at him, but he just kept cruising along, so one of the kayakers went after him to turn him around and ended up FLIPPING his kayak! Then he couldn't get back in so another kayak had to go help and he almost flipped. Apparently it was quite the scene :)
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Tikal Dog posted 1 year ago.
I just remembered another one, didn´t see it personally but my family told me the whole story..
There is always this guy competing that is slower than anybody else in the water. In a race last year he was the last swimmer and after everybody was out it still took him a couple of minutes to get out of the water. THE funny part was that when almost everyone was out of the water a group of duck started to swim beside this guy. And they didn´t leave him until he was out of the water. Don´t know if he had trained the ducks to get some drafting advantage :D or the ducks where really scared that the guy might drown or something.
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LongTime posted 1 year ago.
For the spectators you can't beat this quality of free entertainment. For the guy swimming with the ducks, it would have been even better had he tried shooing the ducks away.
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kevinb421 posted 1 year ago.
My moment of glory came last year when I tried leaving my shoes on my bike going into T2. I undid the shoes and the of course flopped on the ground, the left one got caught on something and down I go. Not a painful fall, just scratched my shoes but part of my pride is still lying out there.
Another good one was last sunday as I was leaving T1 I saw a guy miss his running dismount. Instead of trying again he tried to pull himself up and ended up going up the curb and into the crowd of spectators. I didn't get to stay around to see the aftermath but what I saw was great.
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azstinger11 posted 1 year ago.
kevinb421;71187 wrote:
Another good one was last sunday as I was leaving T1 I saw a guy miss his running dismount. Instead of trying again he tried to pull himself up and ended up going up the curb and into the crowd of spectators. I didn't get to stay around to see the aftermath but what I saw was great.
If that was a B or C race i'm pretty sure I would have just stopped and watched
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
I should watch a tri from the sidelines once. I am trying to think of a good funny story but I'm not coming up with any...
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RV posted 1 year ago.
Last year at IMWI - Not funny per se, but grabbed my attention - On one of the bigger climbs there were a couple guys in drag - long wigs - short skirts - makeup -Scary! :eek: - It did help me crank a little harder up the hill! Also saw an athlete on the run wearing a tux.
The previous year at IMWI when I was a spectator, saw one guy flat just as he was crossed the timing mat coming out of T1. That was sad - he did get a lot of help changing the tire - I don't believe they penalized him for outside assistance even tho an official was watching the whole thing.
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kkocan posted 1 year ago.
At an olympic 2 weeks ago there was big guy running in a Jerome Bettis Steeler Jersey carrying a football coming out of T-2 just as I was finishing the race. That was a sight to see.
I even found his pic on the race website.
http://kennysturmphotography.exposuremanager.com/p/jason/img_264523
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
Dude I dunno how people were doing that at IMoo. It was about all I had just to finish the IM.
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CarbonK posted 1 year ago.
My mom and sister love when I race the New York City Tri because apparently the transition zone is one of the best sites. There are 2 seperate transition zones - one for men and one for women so a lot of the spectators get involved telling people which way to go. So apparently when I did the race 2 years ago a triathlete got out of the water and all the spectators were pointing towards the 2nd chute yelling "men that way, men that way". Only problem was she was a woman. Ooops!
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Jstyle posted 1 year ago.
Wow that is like asking a woman if she is pregnant there is no coming back from a comment like that.
I've had friends tell me I need to skip competing in a triathlon and instead watch a transition, just once, as apparently it can be quite entertaining and often hilarious. Haven't done this yet but my wife has.
Anyway, best story according to my better half... coming out of the swim (or "thrash and flop" according to some) at an oly in Virginia, a guy was having trouble locating his bike. Went down one aisle, looked around, said son-of-a-*****, went down the next aisle and bumped into a guy without apologizing, with the bumpee giving him the "what's your problem" look. Our hero uttered another SOB while searching frantically (and now the spectators were really paying attention). Down a third row with no luck, and said with extreme exasperation, "Where's my f****** bike?!!" A race official approached and mentioned that his race number corresponded to his bike location, pointed toward the number on his leg and then to the correct row, and the guy took off and found his bike.
She's got a few more standard stories like items of clothing almost coming off, people not able to get off a wetsuit, and things of that nature, but pretty typical for the most part.
Anyone else have a good tale to tell?